Role: Azure Cloud Ops Engineer (Azure & DR)
Location: Remote
Duration: Long Term Contract
Role Description:
- The candidate must have a solid understanding of Azure; Azure certifications may be preferred.
- Performs requirements gathering and analysis to inform decisions inform recommendations and help frame options and solutions in a professional services consulting capacity.
- Skilled and experienced implementing consultative solutions for B2B clients.
- Can apply the Azure wellarchitectedframework (WAF) to a clients current or future state in terms of design and/or implementation and advisory services.
- Provides technical leadership and accountability for the successful implementation and management of solution delivery projects.
- Experience implementing wellarchitected/best practices for availability scalability and DR; solutioning multicloud application environments.
- Experience in Azure platformbuild (alerting and monitoring governance policiesetc.)
- Utilizes Bicep to automate the deployment of Azure resources; standardization with InfrastructureasCode (IaC) implementations.
- Can leverage Azure Verified Modules (AVM) to promote best practices and scalable parameterized InfrastructureasCode (IaC) implementations.
Position requires one (1) Azure certification and prefers more for example:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Expert.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate.
- Other Azure certifications may be considered.
Level of Experience & Preferred Education:
- Seven (7) years professional experience or more
- Bachelors degree or higher.
Nice to Have Skills:
- Azure DevOps (AzDO) skills and experience.
- DSO knowledge and experience.
- Experience utilizing Azure Verified Modules (AVM).
- Experience setting managing and meeting expectations as a Leader accountable for themselves plus their team/s performance.
- Experience communicating with and reporting to Client Directors Vice Presidents and Clevel executives in the customer organization.
- Experience guiding and facilitating a combination of both business and engineering stakeholders through a technical decision.
- Experienced designing developing and/or implementing multihybrid cloud solutions using automation tools and technologies is of interest.
- Experience with cloud native security tools and security compliance
- Experience leading technical teams of five or more individuals
- Experience being the technical/engineering lead while also managing and holding other technical/engineering members of the team accountable.
- Experience with ServiceNow.
- Experience with Agile Sprints and/or Kanban techniques for organizing and facilitating work and reporting progress on cadence.
- Experience with IT service management (ITSM) best practices (e.g. ITILv3 or newer).
- Experience with API integration with ServiceNow Event Management.
- Networking experience designing implementing testing and troubleshooting is also of interest.
- Other cloud certifications (e.g. AWS and GCP) may be of some interest but are NOT required.
- Experience developing automation and DevOps using cloud native and agnostic tools (Azure Bicep ARM Powershell Blueprints AWS CloudFormation AWS CLI Lambda Terraform Ansible Python etc.)
- Experience with software defined networking for cloud native and marketplace tools (eg: Palo Altos Fortinets etc.)
- Experience with cloud integration with OEM APIs
- Work collaboratively with clients and colleagues client IT business partners application/workload owners and IBM HCS team members to ensure quality of service.
- Experience configuring and integrating Azure monitoring and alerting to achieve observability.
- Experience performing advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis to expedite incident resolution.
- Evaluating requests for hardware and software; research and recommend solutions that meet or exceed customer requirements.
- Experience with cloud configuration management policy management and security compliance.