Cloud Engineer

Title: MS Azure Engineer (W2 Only)

Location: REMOTE

Duration: Full-time

Travel requirements: 0 - 10% Travel

Job Summary:

You will work with our customers to build the cloud systems infrastructure, focusing on orchestration, security, availability and performance. A successful candidate has strong experience with Azure Cloud services, is self-driven, enjoys learning new technologies, and is willing to stretch themselves to become a stronger engineer and mentor others around them to do the same.

Responsibilities:

• Overall operational excellence with Azure cloud services. Including but not limited to optimizing cost/capacity ratios, proper monitoring, scaling, implementing and validating database DR scenarios, networking, and security frameworks.
• Developing effective cloud infrastructure, enforcing good architectural principles, providing technical oversight, and ensuring security best practices are implemented and followed.
• Develop infrastructure as code on Azure using best practices and implementations across all environments from dev to production.
• Aid in reviewing design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.

Qualifications or equivalent:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of system infrastructure design and implementation experience
• 3+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience
• 2+ years of PowerShell or equivalent
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Team player who can coordinate across customer business units to achieve operational excellence

Required knowledge / Experience:

• Experience with planning and deploying Azure IaaS deployments, migrations, network, and security frameworks.
• Cloud infrastructure architecture and principles
• SQL Azure, Cosmos DB, or equivalent
• Elastic DB, Azure Search, or equivalent
• Azure Cloud Services and App Services or equivalent
• Understanding Azure networking including Azure public cloud and Azure Hybrid Cloud topologies.
• A working understanding of cloud infrastructure as code and cloud scripting languages.”

Strongly Desired:

• Azure Certifications