Senior Cloud Engineer

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The Cloud Engineer is responsible for the design, development, performance, and scalability of the Azure cloud infrastructure and related cloud-based technologies. This role is responsible for developing and improving a recently migrated Azure cloud platform. The Cloud Engineer will be involved in migrating workloads from on-premise deployments into the Cloud, as well as analyzing, designing, developing, deploying, supporting, and reporting on projects of all sizes.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance, and security.
• Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements.
• Migrate existing infrastructure services to cloud-based solutions.
• Manage security and access controls of cloud-based solutions.
• Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud-native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments.
• Develop and implement policy-driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss.
• Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed and/or modernized.
• Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards.
• Resolve technical escalations.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 10 years IT experience.
• A minimum of 5 years experience developing or managing cloud computing with 3 years of Microsoft Azure focus.
• Strong and demonstrable experience with Microsoft Azure networking, including hub-spoke architecture and routing traffic between on-premises and different Azure regions.
• Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration, and optimization of IaaS and PaaS solutions, including enterprise-scale landing zones.
• Experience assessing existing landing zones and providing recommendations based on Microsoft recommended practices.
• Experience in the design and operation of large-scale enterprise infrastructure, databases, and application systems requiring 24x7x365 uptime.
• Competence in a wide range of IT skills including networking, systems administration, data protection, information security, and CI/CD tooling.
• Proven ability to communicate complex ideas and solutions verbally and in written form via system and functional diagrams.
• Proven ability to communicate with other associates at various levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated growth mindset, enthusiastic learner, ability to teach and mentor teammates and cross-functional partners.
• Proficient with GIT to perform source code management.
• Experience with Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps.

Preferred Skills

• Cloud Certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Programming experience with Perl, Python, and PowerShell.
• The ability to programmatically interact with documented REST APIs.
• Experience administering security awareness training solutions such as Knowbe4, Proofpoint Wombat, or similar.
• Experience administering vulnerability management solutions such as Nessus, Qualys, Rapid7, OpenVas, or similar.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills and the ability to organize work in a logical, thorough, and succinct manner.
• Highly self-motivated, goal-oriented, and self-directed to handle multiple ongoing tasks.
• Flexibility to adapt to changing assignments and ability to effectively prioritize.
• Effective written and verbal English communication at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to operate and innovate in a small team with a fast-paced environment, balancing both strategic and tactical needs.
• Experience with managing and assessing cybersecurity controls across a broad range of threat vectors.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All candidates will be recruited and, if applicable, selected and employed without regard to sex, race, religion, marital status, veteran status, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, creed, ancestry, disability, genetic information or any other basis prohibited by law.