Position: Sr. Azure Cloud Network Engineer
Duration: 2 years
Location: Saint Paul MN (Hybrid Office 2 days per week minimum may vary based on workload. One of the days onsite must be Monday or Friday each week. )
Description of Project
The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT) partnering with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) and Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) is seeking one fulltime resource to assist the BCAs Network Operations Team with Azure Cloud network design implementation support maintenance and configuration of network Cloud infrastructure including network switches firewalls load balancers automation tools monitoring and troubleshooting. The position will also document design and support and maintenance process and procedures and cross train current network staff on Cloud network tools and technologies.
Tasks
- Design plan and implement clientspecific cloud solutions including private public and hybrid cloud infrastructures and on premise integrations
- Design and implement network infrastructure including routers load balancers switches and firewalls
- Develop detailed technical processes and supporting documentation for cloud services
- Document design implementation and support and maintenance of Cloud infrastructure.
- Cross train and mentor current staff on Cloud tools and technologies.
- Work alongside other cloud engineers to design automate and support Infrastructure Landing Zones in our various Cloud providers
- Work with product owner and architect to define technical deliverables for requests and features based on internal stakeholder needs using Agile Framework and agile processes
- Provide knowledge transfer.
Desired Skills
- Five (5) or more years of Cloud Network infrastructure design implementation and support.
- Expert knowledge and skills in TCP/IP and network security compliance and best practice.
- Ability to perform advanced technical issue analysis and troubleshooting within a Cloud infrastructure
- Experience migrating legacy applications to cloud environments while adhering to cloud native standards
- Strong network engineering experience (Cisco route/switch firewall load balancing DNS)
- Cloud networking experience in one or more platforms: Azure AWS Google on premise cloud.
- Strong analytical oral and written communications problem solving and human relations skills.
- Candidates should have full lifecycle experience with hybrid clouds including: architecture/design build and ongoing operational support
- Experience in creating training materials and educating team members as well as technical stakeholders
- Cisco CCNA CCNP CompTIA Network Checkpoint or other network certifications
- Experience using network protocol analyzers for configuring and finetune monitoring alerting and event management for cloud network services