Certified Azure Cloud Engineer

TITLE: Certified Azure Cloud Engineer

LOCATION: Washington, DC/ Hybrid

MINIMUM EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in IT, related field, or equivalent experience.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: 16 years

INTERVIEWS: Webcam Only

Job Description:

Hybrid position - Must be willing and able to report on-site to DC offices 1x every 2 weeks.

Complete Description:

1. Architect, design, deploy, and manage Azure Gov IaaS, SaaS & PaaS services, and solutions.
2. Hands-on role to implement and maintain Azure Gov Cloud tenant, including workloads migration (VMware) from on-prem to cloud.
3. Manage overarching product/platform architectures and ensure design and development of all projects follow the architectural vision.
4. Conduct analysis, design and implementation of infrastructure and cloud data center solutions including computing, networking, routing and security.
5. Design and support solutions in cloud and virtualized computing environments with an understanding of hybrid cloud architectures.
6. Successfully communicate, evangelize and implement the architectural vision across teams.
7. Provide technical leadership and work with team direction on projects with a high level of complexity.
8. Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaptation process.

Skills:

1. Experience in design and maintenance of public cloud solutions w/a focus on Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS services like Database services, Kubernetes, etc. - 3 Years Required
2. Experience providing IT administration and/or engineering services managing Windows and Linux servers and services - 3 years Required
3. Excellent technical architecture skills and strong experience across Applications Migration (On-Prem VMware) to Azure (Gov Cloud Preferred) - Required
4. Expert knowledge of Azure CLI PowerShell, ARM Templates, Azure Networking, Azure Virtual Networks, and Site-to-Site-VPN - Required
5. Intermediate knowledge of Azure DevOps configuration and Management, Azure Security Center, and Azure Identity Management - Required
6. Experience with cloud monitoring including Azure Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights - Required
7. Experience implementing DevOps practices including Infrastructure-As-Code (IAC), CI/CD, and automated testing - Required
8. Knowledge of security policies, network security, data security, and security event management to adopt cloud security services - Required
9. Experience in Terraform and/or Ansible and/or Azure Gov cloud / AWS CloudFormation Isac tools - Required
10. Script Experience - PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar. Spark experience preferred - Required
11. Experience with relational databases such as MS SQL - Required
12. Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Information Technology or Computer Science - Required
13. Microsoft Azure Certifications - Required