Senior Azure Cloud Computing Engineer
About the positionResponsibilities• Design, plan, and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems. • Identify, evaluate, and implement tools and services for the most efficient solution to enhance capabilities of cloud-based and virtualized services and meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements. • Develop and conduct testing of cloud and virtualization systems. • Maintain subject matter expertise in Azure industry standards and in related cloud computing and virtualization technologies.• Advise and assist the team lead to forecast, develop, and prioritize roadmap items to meet current and anticipated operational requirements. • Work within the Agile Framework to meet operational and scheduling objectives. • Research and evaluate technical capabilities and new security tools and products to satisfy operational requirements. • Identify and develop technical solutions to complex problems which require ingenuity, creativity, and considerable experience. • Work independently or as part of a team in a virtualized Azure cloud environment.• Work with and assist other team members in utilizing automated configuration management tools. • Employ security, automation, and orchestration to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery of applications and infrastructure at scale. • Troubleshoot complex and nuanced infrastructure problems and work with a team to resolve large-scale production issues. • Assist fellow engineers to resolve blockers and complete assigned tasks within prescribed scheduling and architectural constraints. • Minimize risk of reliability-related failure outcomes as pertaining to durability, availability, performance, and correctness.• Proactively identify and resolve operational, tooling, and process inefficiencies. • Identify and implement creative solutions to resolve the most complex customer incident tickets promptly. Requirements• Secret clearance required to start. • US citizenship required. • Bachelor's and nine (9) years of experience; Masters and seven (7) years of experience. • Expert understanding of, and experience with, deployments of various systems and services to Azure cloud environments via Terraform, Terragrunt, and other IaC technologies.• Expert knowledge of the Azure cloud environment and Azure services. • Expertise in working projects that use CI/CD and streamlined DevOps workflows. • Expertise with scripting using Windows PowerShell, Shell scripts, Python, Bash, or other similar languages. • Experience working on integrated teams requiring high levels of customer contact and collaboration. • Experience with DevSecOps, Agile, Scrum, SAFe or other modern software development methods/practices. • Experience in design and implementation of IaaS and PaaS solutions.Nice-to-haves• AZ-305, AZ-400, other Microsoft Azure certifications. • SAFe DevOps certification. • Experience supporting software migration efforts. • Experience working DoD/government contracts highly desirable. Apply tot his job