Senior Cloud Engineer III

Position Responsibilities:

Architecture & Design

• Design and implement Azure cloud architectures that ensure scalability, availability, and performance.

• Develop and maintain contingency and disaster recovery strategies.

• Evaluate and recommend Azure architectural patterns using Terraform, BICEP, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.

Security & Compliance

• Implement and maintain Azure tenant security: baselines, access controls, patching, and vulnerability management.

• Ensure compliance with ISO, PCI, GDPR, and FTC Safeguard regulations.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with executives and stakeholders to communicate benefits, risks, and costs of cloud solutions.

• Provide expert technical guidance on Azure services, cloud technologies, and industry trends.

• Mentor junior engineers and guide Service Delivery teams through documentation and training.

Automation & Operations

• Design and implement automation/orchestration solutions to streamline operations.

• Provide expert-level troubleshooting for Azure services.

• Maintain uptime through proactive maintenance and structured change management.

Optimization & Innovation

• Regularly assess existing cloud architectures for optimization, cost savings, and performance.

• Stay up to date with emerging Azure features and best practices.

• Lead evaluations of new technologies and make recommendations for improvement.

Governance & Documentation

• Maintain accurate Azure asset inventories and system baselines.

• Define corporate Azure standards and track KPIs (performance, availability, cost).

• Keep documentation current in a central repository.

Strategic Involvement

• Participate in strategic planning, roadmap creation, and budgeting for cloud services.

• Support after-hours operations as part of an on-call rotation.

• Engage in ongoing professional development and training.

Education and/or Training:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.

• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) required.

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-303 and AZ-304) a plus.

• Knowledge of networking protocols and technologies, such as TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and VLANs

• Expert knowledge of native Azure cloud services as well as virtualization and container concepts and technologies.

• Advanced proficiency with scripting languages (e.g,. PowerShell, Python) as well as automation tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet).

• Proficient in various desktop tools including MS Office Programs (i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, SharePoint etc.)

Relevant Work Experience:

• 5-7 years of experience in designing, implementing, and managing cloud platforms in a large-scale enterprise environment.

• Breadth and depth of expertise in a technical or functional area; knowledge of work processes and tools is generally limited to own area of responsibility or department.

• Collecting and analyzing raw data to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, and other helpful information.

• Reviewing and improving analytics processes, methods, and tools to increase efficiency, accuracy, and security.

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