Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Senior

The Maasai Group LLC

• $120K — $145K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or similar field.
  • 7+ years of system administration experience in a large enterprise environment.
  • 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure cloud.
  • Significant experience with AWS infrastructure and services, including networking and scripting.
  • In-depth knowledge of cloud service models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and deployment models (Private, Public, Hybrid).
  • Hands-on expertise in cloud automation and configuration management tools.
  • ACTIVE TOP SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE required.

Responsibilities

  • Provide subject matter expertise for Azure and AWS cloud services.
  • Perform system administration tasks like installing operating systems, patches, and upgrades.
  • Manage infrastructure automation, collaborating with the engineering team in agile processes.
  • Analyze performance for improvement opportunities in virtualized and cloud environments.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve cloud issues related to instances, software, and networks.
  • Collaborate with IT security analysts to ensure safe cloud application setups.
  • Work with third-party vendors for security assessments to mitigate risks.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge cloud technologies.
  • Collaboration in an agile workload, fostering a DevOps culture.
  • Strong emphasis on professional development with certification requirements.
  • Support for risk management in a robust IT security environment.
  • Significant engagement with both on-premise and cloud infrastructures.
Full Job Description
Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Senior

Implement, maintain, manage, troubleshoot, and optimize functional and secure On-premise and Azure cloud environments. Cloud engineer will be responsible for supporting all on-premise, hybrid, Azure, and AWS infrastructures. This is a hands-on operational position requiring technical knowledge and expertise within cloud services and virtualization.

Major Duties:
    • Provide subject matter expertise for Azure cloud services, including but not limited to AWS, and virtualization technology.
    • Performs IT Operations system administration tasks including installing operating system software, patches, and upgrades.
    • Directly responsible for infrastructure, automation and working closely with the engineering team to roll out infrastructure in agile processes and fosters DevOps culture.
    • Analyze systems performance to identify potential opportunities for improvement in virtualized environments, hardware infrastructure, backup, archive systems, data storage environment, and cloud environment systems and services.
    • Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve instance, software, network, and other cloud issues.
    • Work along-side IT security analysts and other IT staff to correctly setup and maintain cloud applications free of risks and vulnerabilities.
    • Work with third-party cloud vendors to obtain security assessments through software monitoring tools to reduce risk and vulnerabilities to the infrastructure.
    • Identify incidents for review and participates in related Root Cause Analyses for Critical and High Incidents.
    • Working knowledge of application code delivery pipelines and integrations into infrastructure automation mechanisms/pipelines.
    • Extensive experience automating delivery of on-premise infrastructure in a traditional VMware, Windows, Linux and SAN/NAS environment.


Professional Qualifications/Skills:
    • Must possess a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or similar technical discipline and 7+ years experience in system administration in a large enterprise environment.
    • Must have 5+ years system administration experience in Microsoft Azure cloud.
    • Excellent understanding of system and network architecture in the cloud and able to manage multiple resources in support of EA cloud efforts.
    • Demonstrate significant experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure and services, AWS networking, IAM roles, and scripting in Perl/Python/Shell.
    • In-depth understanding and knowledge of various cloud service models to include IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and supporting deployment models, including Private, Public, and Hybrid cloud.
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    • Must possess hands-on technology knowledge and recognized expertise in public and hybrid-cloud tools and technologies covering automated provisioning and configuration management.
    • Must have Professional Cloud Certificate for Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification or a minimum Azure Administration Associate certification.
    • Must possess and ACTIVE TOP SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE

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