Sr. Azure Cloud Platform / Site Reliability Engineer (233658)

Job Title: Sr. Azure Cloud Platform / Site Reliability Engineer (233658)
Position Type: 12+ Month Contract
Compensation - Hourly Rate Starts ~ $70 - $75 / hour (Depending on Experience)

ABOUT OUR CLIENT / ABOUT THIS ROLE

Medix is currently seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Platform Engineer for a fully remote opportunity with one of our top clients - a HealthCare Service provider, serving Federal Government Agencies, Veterans and active members of the US Military/ Department of Defense.

Our client is building an Azure cloud-native, microservices-based web application that they want to deploy to the Azure Cloud / Azure Government Cloud. The Azure Cloud Platform Engineer will be building out the end to end CI/CD platform for fully automated deployments.

This role requires an advanced (5+ year) background in the Azure Cloud (security and networking) combined with Terraform, and containerized applications deployments (Docker, ArgoCD, AKS Kubernetes)

RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THIS SR CLOUD PLATFORM ENGINEER WILL INCLUDE

• Working as a Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer to build an automated deployment platform for microservice, containerized applications
• Seeking deep expertise in Azure
• Automating the entire CI/CD pipeline process - from ADO & Git code repositories through production deployments
• Setting up, configuring, troubleshooting AKS clusters
• Developing and managing Terraform modules
• Orchestrating and managing docker containers through the use of tools like ArgoCD, automatically updating images from changes in the Git repo.
• Creating and managing Helm charts for deployments
• Following a variety of deployment strategies (ie, blue-green, canary, etc)
• Investigating and resolving the escalated engineering issues for production workloads in a cloud environment
• Setting up the application logging and metrics using using tools like Prometheus and Grafana dashboards
• Documenting best-processes and standards for knowledge-base
• Assisting in support software and/or cloud-infrastructure on an on-call rotation basis

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS & TECHNICAL SKILLS

• US Citizenship is required
• Minimum 7-10+ years professional experience
• 5+ years consistent experience in the Microsoft Azure Cloud
• 3+ years with Terraform Enterprise
• 3+ years experience with Kubernetes (AKS preferred)
• Strong experience with Docker and CD tools like ArgoCD
• Experience with cloud monitoring / metrics tools like Prometheus or Grafana