Company:
1872 Consulting
Location: Chicago
Closing Date: 08/11/2024
Salary: £100 - £125 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Senior Azure/Systems Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL (WFH 2 days, onsite 3 days)
Summary
The role of the Senior Azure/Systems Engineer will be to design, build, implement and deliver scalable Microsoft Azure Cloud solutions, in addition to supporting the on-prem Windows servers. This role will be responsible for designing and optimizing our cloud infrastructure environment and building out automation using IaC techniques.
What you'll be doing
- You will drive the modernization of infrastructure services within Azure Cloud by engineering Azure-cloud based infrastructure solutions leveraging automation and modern deployment methodologies.
- Build cloud foundational components encompassing network, security, identity, operations, and governance in the Azure cloud.
- Develop and document cloud best practices, guidelines, and cost management of cloud technologies.
- Operationalize solutions from proof-of-concept through production, using automation for repeatability, maintainability, and to enforce standards.
- Manage the resolution of major incidents and any escalated issues for the Azure and server environments.
- Partner with the security team to enable, execute and operate the security, resilience and monitoring of our hosting environment.
- Represent the hosting technologies in Change Advisory Board meetings, review and planning meetings and architectural review.
- Foster a practice of collaboration and continuous improvement within the team.
- Collaborate with internal and/or external resources, providing technical expertise for the hosting environment.
- Conduct performance monitoring, capacity planning, workload modeling and predictive analyses to identify and resolve potential issues (e.g., performance, security breaches).
- Set up the target environment from foundational blueprints (HLD/LLD designs & requirements).
Skills we're seeking
- 7+ total years of experience with Cloud/Systems Engineering experience in a Microsoft environment.
- Must have 3+ years of experience with Azure and 3+ years of on-prem systems engineering with Windows Server and VMWare or Hyper-V.
- Excellent knowledge in the platform of Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services and foundational components of compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, security, tenant/subscriptions and other foundational PaaS services.
- Scripting and automation experience, ideally with PowerShell or Azure ARM.
Nice to have experience
- Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD.
- Experience with IaC tools, such as Terraform.
- Familiarity with authentication systems such as Okta, Azure Active Directory, Active Directory, SAML, WS-Fed, OAuth Kerberos, and LDAP.
- Experience with Cloud and/or Hybrid-Cloud Architecture.
- Microsoft Certified Azure Architect.
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