Typical Duties and Responsibilities
- Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security
- Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure
- 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
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to address and resolve technical escalations
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field
Required Skills and Experience
- 2+ years of Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration and optimization
- knowledge of moving IaaS to PaaS services and moving workloads from onPrim to Azure
- 2+ years of experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions
- Experience in the design and operation of medium to large scale enterprise infrastructure, databases and application systems
- Experience working within an Agile framework
- Experience in IaC development with Terraform, Azure CLI, Puppet, and Ansible
- Experience scripting with Perl, Python and PowerShell
- Proficient with GIT to perform source code management
- Experience with Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps
- Experience with Jira and ServiceNow
- Competence in a wide range of IT skills including networking, systems administration, data protection, information security and CI/CD tooling
- Enthusiastic learner with the ability to teach and mentor teammates and cross functional partners
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a keen attention to detail.