Azure Cloud Engineer

A financial firm is looking for an Azure Cloud Engineer to join their team in Charlotte, NC.

Compensation: $150-200k

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available Azure Cloud architectures for enterprise applications.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to support the delivery of Cloud resources.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive cloud adoption, automation, and operational excellence.
• Conduct architectural reviews, proof-of-concepts, and cost-optimization assessments.
• Ensure disaster recovery and business continuity planning are embedded in infrastructure designs.
• Maintain and update cloud documentation, diagrams, and design specifications.
• Finding and improving operational efficiencies to best suit Cloud resource delivery, access management and security implementations.
• Delivery of Cloud infrastructure for partner solutions.
• Creation and support of automation and infrastructure as code solutions for resource creation and policy, leveraging PowerShell/Azure DevOps, Ansible and other approved corporate automation and orchestration platforms.
• Champion best practices in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and DevOps methodologies.
• Oversee team processes related version control tools such as GitHub / Azure DevOps, including repository management, pipeline as code, and SDLC workflows.
• Design, creation and maintenance of complex Infrastructure as Code and Pipelines as Code solutions in a highly reusable capacity.
• Participate in the automated implementation of monitoring systems, for event monitoring, alerting and metrics.
• Directly interface with support teams across all disciplines, to facilitate a closer relationship for collaborative implementations and knowledge sharing.
• Ensure handover of new/updated systems/documentation to team providing 24x7x365 support.

Qualifications:

• Proficiency in Cloud services related to one or more Cloud providers including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.
• Well-rounded understanding of Azure infrastructure.
• Understanding of Azure application infrastructure design and implementation.
• Proven experience leading engineering teams or technical projects.
• Firm understanding of and experience working under Agile concepts, especially pertaining to SAFe application development.
• Experience with infrastructure as code development and iteration in either Terraform/ARM/Bicep/CloudFormation.
• Hands on operational experience and knowledge with Azure or AWS.
• Prior experience working with orchestration tools (Rundeck/Cutover preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools (HashiCorp Terraform).
• Strong automation skillset with the ability to identify and create automation workflows.
• Sound familiarity with orchestration and automation practices at scale, with a heavy emphasis on designing solutions for other teams to consume.
• PowerShell or other scripting experience, especially with the goal of automation.
• Experience with monitoring and log aggregation tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Splunk, ELK, etc.
• Fundamental understanding of public vs private networking in the Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of Git merging and branching strategies.
• Basic understanding/debugging experience when it comes to application infrastructure, databases, networking, and DNS.
• Ability to execute proof of concepts and deploy complex solutions.
• Understanding of typical SDLC processes, workflow as pertaining to infrastructure.
• Basic understanding of Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence) is a plus.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to articulate requirements, concepts and ideas to business and technology partners.
• Strong technical ability for diagnosis, triage, troubleshooting and problem analysis with the ability to communicate results to business stakeholders, IT support teams to resolve issues both quickly and effectively.
• Ability to influence people outside the immediate span of control, negotiate and resolve conflicts, and work with business users, IT partners and vendors.
• High-Level customer service mindset and commitment to deliver quality results to internal stakeholders in a demanding environment.
• A strong sense of urgency and accountability with exceptional time management skills.
• Comfortable in effectively communicating with business end users, technical IT Teams, network partners and vendors.
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and schedules.