Azure Cloud Engineer - Jersey City, United States - iShare Inc.

Description

3 Months Contract to Hire Role / Only USC and GC/

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Continually assist with the baseline design and implementation of Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies and concepts to include IaaS, PaaS, Azure ARM templates, Azure Blueprints, and Azure policies.
• Recommend and build policies for cloud deployments such as location, device based, capacity sizing, governance, or other criteria.
• Help determine tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) for cloud management and monitoring tools.
• Recommend and implement cloud computing environment resource cost management based on capacity management.
• Recommend and implement standards that ensure adherence to security policies and procedures.
• Assist in building incident response procedures for cloud environment.
• Research and investigate cyber threats and security incidents in conjunction with the IT Security team.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud infrastructure resources based on IT project requirements.
• Develop and support standard operating procedures to simplify and streamline IT processes.
• Provide support to assist with connecting monitoring and security tools (SolarWinds/SIEM/SOAR) with cloud environment.
• Understand basic network cloud connectivity in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Assists the Information Security team in monitoring security systems, reviewing logs, and managing information security systems.
• Identify, analyze, and report resource constraints within the cloud environment, using information collected from a variety of sources, to maintain cloud service operations.
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, investigate, and resolve network and infrastructure issues and incidents; Provide Root Cause Analysis support.

Minimum Qualifications & Competencies:

• Experience within Azure cloud infrastructure including areas of sizing, provisioning, monitoring, and capacity management.
• Provide expertise and serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cloud services.
• Work with development & data teams providing cloud resource deployment orchestration, automation, security, and configuration expertise.
• Expertise in monitoring, administering, troubleshooting, and identifying solutions in cloud environments.
• Proficiency in implementing secure infrastructure solutions.
• Ability to translate strategic requirements into enterprise architecture designs.
• Participate in continuous improvement planning for cloud operations, including technology reviews, root cause analysis, action reports analysis, and cloud portfolio review to ensure adequate infrastructure to provide a suitable operating environment(s) for critical applications.
• Expertise implementing cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Provide general and routine maintenance support including installation, patching, configuration, backups, and updates.
• Expertise implementing virtual infrastructure.
• Solid knowledge of Active Directory, Windows Server OS, VMware, PKI certificate management, and RADIUS authentication.
• Working knowledge of PowerShell scripting
• Ability to interact with a broad cross-section of personnel to gracefully explain and enforce cloud infrastructure requirements and guidance.
• Must possess strong interpersonal, organizational, customer service, and communication skills and an ability to interact effectively with a wide range of users of varying levels of technological expertise.
• Great troubleshooting and problem analysis skills
• Self-motivated with a strong willingness to learn and grow with changing cloud technologies and a fast-paced business environment.
• Drive automation of cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, self-service, Infrastructure-as-Code services, auto-scaling, DevOps deployment, and others.
• Requires occasional work during non-business hours and on weekends.
• Participate in on-call rotation.
• Bachelor's Degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent experience.
• Microsoft Azure certification (plus)

This is a remote position.

About

In the perfect storm of technology forces shaping the business world, the question is not whether companies need to adapt to stay competitive but which tech partner to trust for long-term business improvement and transformation needs.

That's why iShare was founded: to be that credible IT partner that cuts through the buzzword clutter to deliver real value by real people. And that starts with doing the basics right.

Who We Are

Based in New Jersey, iShare is a boutique IT consulting firm with strategic advisory, development, and staffing services designed for specific industry verticals. iShare was founded to fill a real market need - with so much noise about cloud, big data, and information security, companies today are adopting software product after product and losing sight of which they need and why, while what they really need is credible consulting that takes the time to understand their company's unique scenario and requirement, and then architect a solution accordingly.

Recognizing this gap, senior industry executives put their credibility on the line to form iShare and ensure they create a fulfilling experience with lasting value for all stakeholders - customers, employees and partners. iShare leadership team has 20+ years average IT experience and is well-rounded in technology, operations, account and customer management. Our experience spans C-Suite positions with Fortune 100 firms as well as mid-tier firms. Our background includes stints at multibillion-dollar ITO / BPO firms as well as startups.