Azure Solutions Engineer

Title: Azure and Infrastructure Solutions Engineer

Location : Hybrid – 2 days remote, 3 days in Lake Forest, IL

Duration : 6 Month Contract to Hire

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 6 years relevant experience in engineering and/or applications development OR a high school diploma or equivalent and 8 years relevant experience
• Experience effectively communicating with and advising non-technical senior business leaders and technical engineers as a technical subject matter/expert consultant, including experience leading service design and technical requirements gathering
• Demonstrated experience designing and deploying cloud and on-premises infrastructure solutions
• Experience aligning solutions with business and IT strategies
• Experience leading, delegating, monitoring, and supporting the hands-on technical execution of work via internal and vendor-based/3rd party teams
• Experience researching new technologies, frameworks, and tools and securing support and approval via senior leadership and Enterprise Architecture
• Experience driving proof of concept and analyzing technical feasibility, project constraints, risk evaluation, and defining roadmaps for infrastructure technical services
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture frameworks and business standards
• Knowledge of service life cycle management
• Experience with Microsoft Azure based infrastructure engineering
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and vSphere
• Experience with performance optimization
• Experience with Azure Blob Storage and NetApp Data storage solutions
• Experience designing and building high availability and Disaster Recovery solutions
• Experience in the design, setup, and maintenance of data center hardware and facilities, including servers, storage systems, networking gear, and power/cooling systems leveraging infrastructure as code and scripting techniques
• Experience providing technical oversight for a variety of storage architectures such as SAN, NAS, DAS, including experience configuring replication, data deduplication, backup/recovery, and data protection techniques such as air gapping
• Experience with physical and cloud networking concepts

Daily Responsibilities:

The Compute & Infrastructure Solution Engineer is responsible for leading technical requirements gathering and design sessions with stakeholders as it relates to infrastructure services with a primary focus on cloud, on-premises, and colocation data center compute and storage. This role is integral in translating service and product vision to the internal and 3rd party teams who will execute the work.