Azure Cloud Engineer (ARLINGTON)

The Opportunity:
To be considered for an interview, please make sure your application is full in line with the job specs as found below. As a Cloud Engineer, you will consult and contribute to business process improvements of IT policies, procedures, tools, security controls and infrastructure. You will also conduct research and Proof of Concept activities and provide recommendations for new technologies, techniques and tools to add value by increasing efficiency while improving service quality. The Azure Cloud Engineer will maintain the operational Azure cloud environment, perform infrastructure deployments and ensure the production environment is operating securely and efficiently using automation tools. You will work with Infrastructure Engineering to make sure all deployments follow standards, are compliant and secure. You will also be partnered with other cloud team members, application owners and business owners for faster delivery of resources.
The Day-to-Day:
Develop, implement and maintain scalable Cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure platform
Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their cloud requirements and design effective solutions
Provide technical expertise and support troubleshooting cloud related issues and performance bottlenecks
Recommend Cloud & AI-based solutions, document and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Design and manage scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure and automation tooling for routine operation tasks
Deploy enterprise scaled cloud resources that can be used across technology organizations using code
Be the contact to business application owners and build bridge between them and the cloud team
Follow security audit requirements and controls in every action
Implement and suggest strategies in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, develop tooling and associated processes for using automated, faster, efficient, and consistent error-free deployments
Participate in team activities such as peer code reviews, design collaboration efforts and rotating on-call process
Use configuration management and automated deployment tools to provide cloud-based solutions and services ensuring best practices
Work with solution architects, tech leads and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls and meet cloud computing best practices
Manage implementations and ongoing operation of cloud services following approved designs, adherence to patterns, security requirements and certify all logging and monitoring are active for security and compliance
Investigate and monitor current-state cloud usage, solutions in use, risks, gaps, limitations and recommend solutions, optimizations and remediation
Provide international and 24/7 support through on-call duties and/or working a flexible off-hours schedule for planned and unplanned maintenance
Your Qualifications:
10+ years of experience deploying resources and managing infrastructure through both manual and automated pipelines in an IT infrastructure and operational environment
5+ years of experience with the following:

Maintaining resources in cross platform environments
Azure cloud infrastructure deployments using IaC
Building, deploying and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services
Deploying resources using Terraform

4+ years of experience with the following:

GitHub and GitHub Actions
Building automated cloud infrastructure across multiple Production and Non-Production environments
Scripting and automating builds, workflows, tasks and other integration aspects
Azure CLI

3+ years of experience with the following:

CI/CD pipelines
YAML/YML for GitHub actions
Troubleshooting in an Azure Cloud environment
Designing and managing cloud solutions

1+ year hands on experience

Deploying, operating, and maintaining Kubernetes-based platforms
AI platforms such as Microsoft Azure AI or similar cloud-based AI services

Experience with Azure IaaS (Virtual Machines, Storage, Networking) and PaaS (App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory)
Knowledge of identity management, security controls, compliance and encryption
Experience explaining complex concepts to both non-technical and technical teams
Solid understanding of DNS, LAN, WAN, Firewalls, File systems, and IAM
Experience with Linux and Microsoft Windows server environments
Experience using Jira, Confluence, or ServiceNow
Experience with PowerShell
Knowledge in Octopus Deploy and Ansible is preferred
Bachelors degree in MIS, Computer Science, or a related field
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