Cloud Engineer, Senior Associate

Position: Senior Associate Azure Infrastructure

Experience (Hands On): 3yrs - 5yrs

What Are We Looking For:

• At least 3 years of Azure cloud IAAS and PAAS hands-on experience
• A seasoned candidate managing client's requirements end-to-end (discovery, planning, design, implementation, and transition)
• Plan, develop, and configure Azure infrastructure from conceptualization through stabilization using various Azure tools, methodology, design best practices, etc.
• Planning for data backup, disaster recovery, data privacy, and security requirements to ensure solution remains secured and compliant with security standards and frameworks
• Monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving infrastructure issues in Azure cloud
• Experience in keeping cloud environment secure and proactively preventing downtime
• Good knowledge in determining associated security risks and mitigation techniques
• Ability to work both independently and in a multi-disciplinary team environment
• Perform routine infrastructure analysis and evaluation on resource requirements necessary to maintain and/or improve SLAs
• Strong problem-solving skills, customer service and people skills
• Excellent command of the English language (both Verbal & Written)

What You Will Be Doing:

Good understanding & extensive work experience in the following:

• Azure Cloud Migrations
• Azure Foundations and Landing Zones
• Vnets, IP Networking/Subnetting, VPN, Gateways, Load Balancing, Firewalling, Azure DNS, Traffic Manager, Azure CDN (Front Door), and the overall Azure networking
• Azure Virtual Desktop implementation and management experience
• Virtual Machine, AKS, and Azure Containers
• Managed Disk, Blob Storage, Table Storage, File Storage, and Queue Storage
• Azure RDS database services such as SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB
• Azure monitoring and alerting services such as Azure Monitor, Azure Advisor
• Leverage new technology paradigms (e.g., serverless, containers, microservices)
• Strong fluency in at least one programming or scripting language: Python, Ruby, Shell scripting, Java, etc.
• Solid experience in Linux -based servers and workstations especially, performing systems administration, maintenance, and engineering in multiple enterprise server environments (Linux, Red Hat, CentOS)
• Cloud implementation experience via Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Prior experience working in Agile Principle, Methodologies and Tools (SCRUM, KANBAN, XP)
• Exposures to Cloud Assessment Tools (Device42, Azure Cloud Migration Assessment, Cloudockit, Flexera, etc.)

Nice To Haves:

• Experience in technology consulting/advisory
• Advanced knowledge of Linux
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Azure services and architecture
• Advanced knowledge of Google GCP services and architecture
• Exposure to Data Center Compute and Storage

Certifications: Good to have

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate

Other requirements:

• Willingness to work in 2PM to 11PM IST shift.
• Willingness to work in hybrid model.
• Comprehend & articulate client's requirement.
• Minimal supervision.