Azure Cloud Engineer - Remote

Reston, Virginia


Employer: Open Systems Technologies
Industry: 
Salary: Competitive
Job type: Part-Time

Required Skills:•
Experience with DaaS/VDI technologies in the cloud, preferably Azure (i.e. Horizon Cloud Services, Windows Virtual Desktops. Cloud PC)
• A thorough understanding of core technologies (i.e. DNS, DHCP, Wireless, Active Directory etc.) and how they integrate with the cloud
• Advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including networking, virtualization, identity, security, business continuity, disaster recovery, data platform
• Experience in designing and implementing Cloud or Data Center solutions including aspects like compute, network, storage, security, monitoring, and automation
• Familiarity of Cloud capabilities, products and services for Azure, plus other Microsoft products and services (i.e. Azure Information Protection, Microsoft Cloud App Security, Microsoft 365, etc.).

Technical Skills:
• Experience with devsecops practices in a cloud environment; Azure and multi-cloud experience is a plus.
• Develop framework for product teams to design, build and deploy changes for existing software
• Identify, recommend and implement automation for manual processes
• Maintain, improve and secure company's multi cloud infrastructure and associated processes
• Partner with internal key stakeholders (InfoSec, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud COE, networking) and industry leaders to maintain a current security posture for the cloud services
• Extensive experience with DevSecOps tools; e.g. Azure Pipelines, Kubernetes Service, Azure Policy, Azure Key Vault, GitHub, Azure Monitor and other similar
• Experience in designing and implementing Cloud or Data Center solutions including aspects like compute, network, storage, security, monitoring, automation, and cost optimization
• Familiarity of Cloud capabilities, products and services for Azure, plus other Microsoft products and services (i.e. Azure Information Protection, Microsoft Cloud App Security, Microsoft 365, etc.).
• Experience with implementing security controls in cloud, Data Center or hybrid environments
• A thorough understanding of core technologies (i.e. DNS, DHCP, Wireless, Active Directory etc.) and how they integrate with the cloud
• Strong scripting and automation experience; Azure preferable
• Experience that can help implement a governance framework that creates a seamless onboarding experience into and management of Azure or other cloud

Soft Skills:
• Manage and improve the communication between operations and product teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences
• Ability to effectively address technical questions/with various audiences, including non-technical teams, at all levels in the organization
• Capacity to drive hands-on technical engagements with the customers and guide them through cloud
• Employ creativity to devise effective and efficient strategies
• Passion for technology, with an ability to understand and assess new technologies, and their potential applicability to business needs in an efficient, effective manner
• Ability to work in an Agile format with stakeholders across multiple organizations to design and implement cloud agnostic solutions

Qualifications:
• 5 years of Cloud Engineering experience
• Hands-on Azure DevOps experience
• Strong Cloud DevOps work in testing, troubleshooting, and remediation work within Applications and Cloud Pipelines
• Terraform IaC experience
• Scripting: PowerShell, Python and scripting language used to build out CI/CD Pipelines
• Automation

Created: 2024-05-18
Reference: 2107
Country: United States
State: Virginia
City: Reston


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