Sr Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Job#: 3051498

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.

Candidates must be able to obtain and/or maintain a Department of Defense --Top Secret clearance as a condition and continuation of employment.

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.

• 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.
• Active Top Secret clearance.

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