Lead Azure Cloud Engineer

Looking for Lead Azure Cloud Engineer!! Leading Projects and Acting as bridge between Cloud Admin and Cloud Architects!! This candidate will not leas any teams!

Absolute Must Haves:

Azure

Entra ID

Landing Zone components

Location: DMV (Candidates must local to the location mentioned)

Duration: 12 month

Immigration Status: Only considering USC GC GC EAD H4 EAD candidates!! NO H1 NO OPT NO CPT For this role.

• Bridge between Cloud Admin and Cloud Architects..
• Responsible for Engineering and Operations. Building new environments and manage and support those environments.
• Needs to have good exp with Entra ID and Landing Zone components.
• Looking for strong Azure resource. Azure is primary but also has AWS and OCI (Preferred)... Will need to support team if they are stuck with any issues.
• Needs to be hands on resource... PowerS scripting is ideal. Any automation exp would suffice.
• There will be 24x7 oncall rotation (once every ten weeks for a full week). And will have to go to office 12 times per quarter depending on various reasons.

Job Description

PURPOSE:
Lead Cloud Engineer is responsible for the implementation 24x7 operational support automation availability and performance management of the CareFirst public cloud platforms.
The candidate is responsible to work with multidisciplined IT technical teams to collaborate and manage infrastructure automation and applications in the public cloud with a focus on Microsoft Azure AWS and OCI. They need to contribute valuably to the evaluation of application and infrastructure cloud readiness work on cloud migration plan to support onpremise moves to a cloud service as well as the longterm management of the infrastructure ociated with these applications.
Candidate must have a strong and broad foundational IT sset including supporting Azure Cloud services Linux/Windows Operating Systems server configurations (including networking storage and security principals) Data Hub Containerization environments. The candidate must also have a strong understanding and working knowledge with critical IT services such as Active Directory/Azure Active Directory DNS IaaS PaaS Containers etc.
Responsibilities include working with application development database and security teams as well as with other IT teams to collaborate on implementing automation services across the infrastructure platforms. This is a highly technical crossfunctional role that understands all components of IT infrastructure (network compute storage security etc.) and knows how to integrate and automate each of the components using scripting or automation tools like Azure DevOps and ServiceNow.
Responsible for:
Supporting and implementing infrastructure used for business mission critical applications including Claims Processing Enrollment Financial and Portal Websites and many other applications.
Supporting cloud infrastructure to manage a 99.98% availability for all systems/services on a 7x24x365 basis.
Providing OnCall escalation and emergency support as needed.
The current public/private server environments consist of:
o Azure IaaS Linux/Windows Servers 90%
o AWS IaaS Linux/Windows Servers 10%
Configuring and supporting Azure services such as
Configuring and supporting of Azure Cloud services
Entra ID
Conditional Access policy
Azure Policy
Subscription
Azure vNet
Route table
Private DNS Zones
Private DNS Resolver
Private Endpoints
NSG (Network Security Group)
Azure NetApp Files
Azure Backup Service
Key Vault App specific
Load Balancer and App Gateway
Data Factory Web App services Functions Databricks Storage Blob File Share

Contribute to the evaluation of application cloud readiness while also working on migration plans and longterm management of applications.
Design and Implement Cloud platforms for highest levels of availability performance security and agility.
Implement cost transparency disaster recovery and business resiliency best practices.
Implement process and procedures as well as the creation and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) doentation enhancing and standardizing the support of the Cloud Platforms on doented best practices.
Ensure that each cloud platform complies with wellelished policies standards licensing agreements and configuration guidelines.
ist in administering Active Directory and Azure AD for the highest levels of security and availability.
Experienced with Cloud SAML integration such as Azure Enterprise Apps SSO and SCIM provisioning
Understand and apply new technical ss through a combination of research instructor lead training and selftraining.
Lead the review design and implementation of new technologies that improve infrastructure or reduce cost.
Provide excellent customer service to all customers both internal and external.
Exhibit professionalism when working with and communicating to our customers and vendors.
Act as an interface to members of the IT infrastructure team keeping management and peers informed and disseminating information as needed.
Utilize strong troubleing capabilities to diagnose and resolve problems and escalate to next level of support (both internally and with vendors) as necessary.
Work independently and cross functionally with others to resolve problems.

Infrastructure Automation
Work with ITSM team to integrate cloud service catalog into ServiceNow.
Azure builds via Azure DevOpsTerraform/ARM/BICEP automated services
This is a highly technical crossfunctional role that understands all components of IT infrastructure (network compute storage security etc.) and knows how to integrate and automate each of the components and services and deliveries.

Project Management
Provide project management over the technical aspects of implementing infrastructure projects and major release upgrades for CareFirsts largest most complex and critical systems.
Properly follow a project life cycle.
Develop project plans and project tasks using Jira and Agile odologies.
Complete all appropriate doentation and notifications to obtain resolution within the elished timeframes.
Provide input to the development of corporate IT standards and policies to ensure compatibility and integration throughout the company.
Complete project work within budget constraints if they exist.
Stay current in new IT technologies to maintain high level subject matter expertise.
Compose a set of ideas into a clear presentation for leadership to consume. Capable of presenting PowerPoint clearly and confidently.
Take highly technical concepts and organize them into a PowerPoint presentation to present to management to provide full project status and updates.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Required:
Bachelors Degree Information Technology (or equivalent educational focus 10 years) is required.
15 years of total IT experience
4 years of Cloud experience
Must be expert with cloud services such as Entra ID and Landing Zone components
Must have projects that implemented and supported Azure cloud native services
PowerS scripting or automation experience
Must have cross platform enterprise experience across IT (Server Network Storage Security).
Must be a highly motivated individual with strong ytical problem solving and multitasking ss complimenting a pion for learning/sharing information from and with peers.
Must be able to work a 24x7 OnCall shift as needed.
Preferred Technical Expertise:
Azure Architect Certification