Job#: 3051498 Job Description: Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, SeniorImplement, maintain, manage, troubleshoot, and optimize functional and secure On-premise and Azure cloud environments. Cloud engineer will be responsible for supporting all on-premise, hybrid, Azure, and AWS infrastructures. This is a hands-on operational position requiring technical knowledge and expertise within cloud services and virtualization.
Candidates must be able to obtain and/or maintain a Department of Defense --Top Secret clearance as a condition and continuation of employment.
Major Duties:- Provide subject matter expertise for Azure cloud services, including but not limited to AWS, and virtualization technology.
- Performs IT Operations system administration tasks including installing operating system software, patches, and upgrades.
- Directly responsible for infrastructure, automation and working closely with the engineering team to roll out infrastructure in agile processes and fosters DevOps culture.
- Analyze systems performance to identify potential opportunities for improvement in virtualized environments, hardware infrastructure, backup, archive systems, data storage environment, and cloud environment systems and services.
- Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve instance, software, network, and other cloud issues.
- Work along-side IT security analysts and other IT staff to correctly setup and maintain cloud applications free of risks and vulnerabilities.
- Work with third-party cloud vendors to obtain security assessments through software monitoring tools to reduce risk and vulnerabilities to the infrastructure.
- Identify incidents for review and participates in related Root Cause Analyses for Critical and High Incidents.
- Working knowledge of application code delivery pipelines and integrations into infrastructure automation mechanisms/pipelines.
- Extensive experience automating delivery of on-premise infrastructure in a traditional VMware, Windows, Linux and SAN/NAS environment.
Professional Qualifications/Skills:- Must possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or similar technical discipline and 7+ years experience in system administration in a large enterprise environment.
- Must have 5+ years system administration experience in Microsoft Azure cloud.
- Excellent understanding of system and network architecture in the cloud and able to manage multiple resources in support of EA cloud efforts.
- Demonstrate significant experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure and services, AWS networking, IAM roles, and scripting in Perl/Python/Shell.
- In-depth understanding and knowledge of various cloud service models to include IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and supporting deployment models, including Private, Public, and Hybrid cloud.
- Must possess hands-on technology knowledge and recognized expertise in public and hybrid-cloud tools and technologies covering automated provisioning and configuration management.
- Must have Professional Cloud Certificate for Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification or a minimum Azure Administration Associate certification.
- Active Top Secret clearance.
Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
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