Azure Platform Engineer

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Azure Cloud Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for building scalable solutions in the Azure Platforms for our Data & Analytics Platform. You may be expected to lead a team of junior engineers towards successful delivery of engineering solutions. The ideal candidate will bring a blend of technical skills and leadership ability, with the communication and teamwork skills to collaborate with other members of the IT team.

Typical Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance, and security.
2. Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure.
3. Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements.
4. Engage in conducting Proof of Concepts of various vendor solutions and present final recommendations.
5. Migrate existing infrastructure services to cloud-based solutions.
6. Manage security and access controls of cloud-based solutions.
7. Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud-native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments.
8. Develop and implement policy-driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss.
9. Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed and/or modernized.
10. Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards.
11. Participate in an on-call rotation to address and resolve technical escalations.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 4+ years of Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration, and optimization.
• 6+ years of experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions.
• Experience in the design and operation of medium to large-scale enterprise infrastructure, databases, and application systems.
• Experience working within an Agile framework.
• Experience in IaC development with Terraform, Azure CLI, Puppet, and Ansible.
• Experience Azure PowerShell.
• Experience with Python, data analysis using Python, working on Python solutions in Azure.
• Experience with C#, frameworks for apps and solutions on Azure.
• Experience with Windows, Linux VMs, networking, routing & firewalls.
• Experience with Azure services such as Azure App Services, ADF, Logic Apps, AKS, ADLS, etc.
• Proficient with GIT, ADO to perform source code management.
• Experience with Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Jira and ServiceNow.
• Competence in a wide range of IT skills including networking, systems administration, data protection, information security, and CI/CD tooling.
• Enthusiastic learner with the ability to teach and mentor teammates and cross-functional partners.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a keen attention to detail.
• Azure Certifications:
  
  • Azure Administrator Associate.
  • Azure Developer Associate.
  • DevOps Engineer Expert.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10+ years’ IT experience.
• Experience with administration or development using Azure Databricks & Unity Catalog.
• Azure Certifications:
  
  • Azure Security Engineer Associate.
  • Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
  • Azure Data Engineer Associate.