Azure Cloud Engineer

DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT AND TASKS

Statement of Work:
As TriWest's hybrid cloud and cybersecurity services partner, is responsible for the delivery of the TRICARE Managed Care Support (MCS) T-5 contract. IBM's scope is to provide hosting, platform engineering, infrastructure automation, managed operations, and security and compliance of the T-5 environments in Microsoft Azure for Government (MAG). Phase 1A task will align with the base period/implementation effort. During this implementation period, the tenant infrastructure is created in the MAG regions to support the T-5 applications. By the end of Phase 1A, the T-5 applications will have been deployed by TriWest and approved for production go-live to support Start of Healthcare Delivery (SHCD). The T-5 applications will be hosted in the MAG Arizona region. As the managed services provider, provides infrastructure managed services and automation supporting TriWest's DevSecOps. IBM will form cross-functional agile teams that are integrated with the TriWest development teams to deploy approximately 50 T-5 applications in Azure GovCloud in the base period of the contract to meet SHCD. Categories of infrastructure managed services include billing/metering, network administration, service desk support, system administration, cloud engineering, security operations, security event management, security compliance, security engineering, incident response, and service catalog.


Role:


Azure Cloud Engineer Mid


Role Description:
The Cloud Engineer will possess strong knowledge and experience leveraging Cloud platforms and technologies such as Azure. The Cloud Engineer will also possess experience designing, developing, and implementing multi-hybrid cloud using automation tools and technologies. The Cloud Engineer will be part of the Hybrid Cloud Services (HCS) team providing solutions for complex mission critical systems providing tiers 2 and 3 support. The candidate must have a solid understanding of Azure cloud service. The Cloud Engineer role will also possess experience performing requirements gathering and analysis; will provide consultative solutions to customers; and solution well-architected frameworks in Azure.

Position Requires: Position requires 5 years' experience with the following: • Providing technical leadership and assuming overall accountability for the successful management and implementation of customer projects. • Experience implementing well-architected/best practices for availability, scalability, and DR; solutioning multi-cloud application environments • Experience developing automation and DevOps using cloud native and agnostic tools (e.g., Azure Bicep, ARM, Powershell, Blueprints, Lambda, Terraform, Ansible, Python) • Experience with software defined networking for cloud native and marketplace tools (e.g., Palo Altos, Fortinets) • Experience configuring and integrating Azure native monitoring 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 Position requires two of the following certifications:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

Level of Experience & Preferred Education:

• 5 years of relevant professional experience, or more.
• Bachelor's degree, or higher

Nice to Have Skills:
• Experience with cloud integration with OEM APIs
• Experience with cloud native security tools and security compliance
• Experience leading technical teams of three or more individuals
• Experience with ServiceNow
• Experience with IT service management best practices
• Experience with API integration with ServiceNow Event Management