Azure Cloud Engineer - Washington, United States - NextGen IT

Description

Job Description

Job Description

Azure Cloud Engineer


Roles and Responsibilities:
Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security.
Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure
Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements.
Migrate existing infrastructure services to cloud-based solutions.
Manage security and access controls of cloud-based solutions.
Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments.
Develop and implement policy driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss.
Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed and/or modernized.
Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards.
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to address and resolve technical escalations.


Required Education/Skills:
Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
8+ years of Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration and optimization.
8+ years of experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions
Experience in the design and operation of medium to large scale enterprise infrastructure, databases and application systems.
Experience working within an Agile framework.
Experience in IaC development with Terraform, Azure CLI, Puppet, and Ansible
Experience scripting with Perl, Python and PowerShell
Proficient with GIT to perform source code management.
Experience with Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps
Experience with Jira and ServiceNow
Competence in a wide range of IT skills including networking, systems administration, data protection, information security and CI/CD tooling
Enthusiastic learner with the ability to teach and mentor teammates and cross functional partners
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a keen attention to detail
Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust

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