Azure Architect - Contract - Remote

Mandatory Skills - Azure cloud,cloud security and terraform

Job Title: Cloud Security Engineer
Location: 100% Remote

Responsibilities:

• Leading role in building solutions to improve our infrastructure operations, enabling us to run a lean organisation and automate as much as possible.
• Designing and implementing new solutions to complex problems.
• Executing defined work packages.
• Writing to ensure our solutions are well documented and simple to understand.
• Running handover activities with Operations teams.
• Building enhancements and fixes where necessary.
• Strong understanding of security reviews, reports and audits
• Strong experience with implementing and maturing Azure Cloud security controls and procedures
• Understanding of modern security architectures, e.g. micro-segmentation, application identity
• Knowledge of secure practices and understand how to embed security controls and processes in the CI/CD pipeline

Core Skills

• At least 8 years experience in cloud administration and/or information security
• Strong experience in building and optimizing CI/CD Pipelines
• Practical knowledge of packaging and deploying applications
• Experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud
• Strong understanding of security reviews, reports and audits
• Strong experience with implementing and maturing Azure Cloud security controls and procedures
• Strong experience with git (e.g. using tools such as GitHub)
• Kubernetes container-orchestration
• Experience with public cloud platforms (e.g. PaaS, IaaS, FaaS)
• Experience in DevOps lifecycle processes and supporting tools
• Experience working in an Agile team
• Experience working as a Scrum Master
• Strong communication skills with multiple examples of being able to convey complex ideas in a manner that resulted in a definitive direction and result
• Understanding of modern security architectures, e.g. micro-segmentation, application identity
• Knowledge of secure practices and understand how to embed security controls and processes in the CI/CD pipeline

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience with implementing and maturing Google Cloud security controls and procedures
• Experience in designing and building technical solutions
• Experience within an infrastructure operations environment
• Strong scripting capabilities (PowerShell, Python, Bash)
• Experience with Ansible automation
• Experience with virtualization solutions (VMWare)