Azure Cloud Engineer

OmegaHires

Irving, Texas

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JOB DETAILS

SKILLS

ARM (Advanced RISC Machine), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Ansible, Apache JMeter, Automation, Best Practices, Budgeting, Business Strategy, Chef (Configuration Management), Cloud Applications, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Communications Security (COMSEC), Consulting, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Customer Support/Service, DNS (Domain Name System), Data Management, DevOps, Docker, Emerging Technology, Feasibility Analysis, Finance, GCP (Good Clinical Practices), High Availability, Identify Issues, Information Technology & Information Systems, Instrumentation, Java, Jenkins, Linux Operating System, Mail Services, Maven, Metrics, Microservices, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft C# (C Sharp), Microsoft Windows Azure, Microsoft Windows Operating System, Military, Model View Controller, Nagios Monitoring Tool, Network Operations Center, Operating Systems, Operational Improvement, Operations Processes, Organizational Skills, Performance Analysis, Process Improvement, Process Management, Programming Languages, Proof of Concept, Prototyping, Puppet (Configuration Management), Python Programming/Scripting Language, Redis, Ruby, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Selenium, Software Development, Software Engineering, Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM), Splunk, Technical Strategy, Test Automation, Test Data, Test Driven Development (TDD), Virtual Machine (VM)

LOCATION

Irving, Texas

POSTED

1 day ago

Job Description:
Experience and Education
· 10 - 12 years of experience in an IT environment or relevant role required
· 5-7 years of Cloud development and support experience, such as Microsoft Azure
· 2-3 years of experience in the financial industry preferred
· Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or equivalent work or military experience required
Extensive experience with Cloud technologies (such as Azure, AWS, GCP) and native toolsets such as Azure ARM Templates, Hashicorp Terraform, AWS CloudFormation.
Extensive experience with automation and configuration management using Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or similar.
Experience with one or more of the following: Azure Eventhub, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service, Blob Storage, Azure DNS, Virtual Networks, Redis Cache and Azure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service.
Strong experience with the Linux operating system.
Strong background in scripting and automation in languages such as Python and Ruby.
Strong background in cloud operations, instrumentation, and monitoring of distributed architectures using ZipKin, DataDog, AppDynamics, Splunk, Nagios, or similar.

JOB DUTIES

Design, and execute a comprehensive reliability and availability strategy across the Digital portfolio
Drives the adoption of site reliability best practices throughout the organization with the ability to demonstrate this empirically through stability and reliability metrics
Lead the design of cloud-native applications, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and efficient
Implement best practices in cloud architecture in alignment with the Azure Well-Architected Framework, ensuring our solutions are secure, efficient, and cost-effective
Oversee cloud infrastructure, employing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to automate deployment
Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize cloud environments.
Drives the design of AKS with Istio service mesh to optimize microservices communication, security, observability with CI/CD integration using Helm charts
Automate the provisioning of cloud environments through the concept of "pipeline engineering" using Terraform, Chef, Puppet and other tools.
Research, analyze, design, develop and support high-quality automation workflows in the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies.
While embedding with teams, strategize, consult, and prototype alongside other engineers to implement best practices and solutions for applications utilizing CI/CD and the cloud.
Evangelize Distributed Version Control and Trunk-Based Development practices, ATDD and TDD, Pipelines and Infrastructure and Release Automation
Drive proof of concepts and conduct technical feasibility studies for business requirements
Remain up to date on emerging technologies and architecture and propose ways to use them in current and upcoming projects
Troubleshoot production issues, engage appropriate parties, and drive through to resolution
Manage processes of 3rd party data streams into the datacenter and cloud
Collaborate with Architecture team(s) to advise on any needed enabling work and make decisions regarding sequencing to ensure optimal delivery of value for business customers
Ensure high availability and 24x7 monitoring
Continually improve operational processes and procedures
Educate and guide team members on Cloud standards. Act as a SME for all Cloud technical hands-on questions, with an initial focus on Azure and Cloud Native, 12 Factor Software development.
Lead and facilitate the creation of compliance automation and policy-as-code to streamline cloud governance.
Strive to provide internal and external customers with excellent customer service and world-class service.
Effectively communicate project health, risks and issues to the program stakeholders, sponsors and management teams.
Resolve most conflicts between timeline, budget, and scope independently but intuitively escalate complex or consequential issues to senior management.
Identify and direct changes through appropriate review and approval mechanisms.

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Pipeline Automation: Azure DevOps (YAML, ARM), Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, Octopus Deploy
Code Scanning: SonarQube, Checkmarx
Source Code repos: Git
Containerization: Azure Kubernetes Service, Kubernetes (open source), Docker
High-level programming languages: Java, C# (.NET MVC and .NET Core), Go
Scripting: PowerShell, Bash
Database: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, NoSQL (e.g., CosmosDB)
Test Automation: Xamarin.UITest, Specflow, DevTest, Selenium, Test Data Manager, Postman,
Maven, TestNG, JMeter
Operating systems: Windows, Linux
Cloud Platforms: Azure
Metrics and Monitoring: Splunk

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