Role: Cloud Network Engineer
Location: Libertyville, IL ( Onsite-5 days in a week onsite)
Duration: Contract to Hire
Cloud Engineering / Networking Responsibilities:
Develop, Design and implement- Azure Cloud Services: Azure Virtual Machines, App Services, AKS, Functions, Storage, Monitor
Develop, Design and implement VNETs, Subnets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, SDWAN and network solutions
Automation & DevOps -Design and implement support for ARM Templates, Terraform, PowerShell, CI/CD Pipelines
Performance & Cost Optimization Autoscaling, Load Balancing, Reserved Instances
Design for scalability, reliability, availability, and security of systems.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize performance and maintain resilient systems.
Investigate and evaluate market and technology trends
Foster a collaborative troubleshooting environment.
Project Management:
Lead infrastructure projects (e.g., Cloud integrations, system deployments, network upgrades).
Define project scope, timelines, and resource allocation.
Monitor progress and address any issues.
Security and Compliance:
Implement and adhere to and enforce security policies and best practices.
Ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., ISO, NIST).
Remediate vulnerabilities and provide systems built with security by design.
Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture
Support Identity & Access Management Standards, Azure AD, RBAC
Vendor Management:
Evaluate technology vendors and ensure services and service levels are defined and considered.
Maintain vendor relationships and monitor service levels.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity:
Plan and test disaster recovery procedures.
Minimize downtime during critical incidents.
Azure Site Recovery, Backup, Geo Redundancy
System / Networking Assessment Responsibilities:
Review and assess the enterprise network landscape including LAN, WAN, Fiber and Voice.
Evaluate on-prem and cloud network security posture.
Assess server and compute platforms across on-prem and cloud environments.
Review storage, backup, restore and disaster recovery solutions.
Document consolidated findings, and recommendations for the above.
Create Network Assessment Report Architecture and configuration details of network Devices
Create Server Assessment Report - Capacity, performance, availability details of On-prem and cloud servers
Create Security Assessment Report - Identified risks and vulnerabilities on network, server, access control & firewall.