Azure Engineer

The Senior Engineer – Azure is responsible for engineering cloud automation capabilities for Azure Public Cloud. The Azure Senior Engineer will be part of the Cloud Engineering team, which is responsible for building automated provisioning and platform engineering abstraction for improved developer experience.

The Cloud Engineering team ensures public cloud services are provisioned in a timely manner to business partners. The team also ensures that various public cloud services remain compliant with the highest security and best practice standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Participate in designing solutions for automated provisioning and compliance of various Azure services using cloud-native capabilities and microservices-based development.
• Partner with cross-functional teams in the design and development of various hybrid cloud capabilities. Facilitate design and review sessions between multiple teams including Application Engineering, Operations, Quality, and Security teams.
• Create design documents and common patterns that facilitate the acceleration of adoption of various cloud services among application teams.
• Drive innovation through automation of services and capabilities.
• Design, deploy, and maintain complex Azure-based infrastructure and solutions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements for cloud-based projects.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and infrastructure as code templates for deploying Azure resources and cloud foundation.
• Create multi-region cloud foundation and automation for Azure.
• Design and develop self-service cloud capability delivery.

Required Qualifications

• BA/BS required, preferably in a STEM field.
• 3+ years of relevant technology experience.
• 2+ years of public cloud (Azure) experience.
• Strong expert-level skills in Azure services including PaaS service.
• Strong hands-on coding skills in Terraform and Groovy to build automation pipelines for deploying resources on Azure.
• Strong background in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience in building solutions using various Azure services.
• Hands-on experience in one or more programming languages, preferably Python.
• Strong understanding of agile development processes and Agile toolset JIRA.
• Understanding of microservices and REST APIs-based application development.
• Understanding of GIT-based source code management, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices using tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Artifactory, and Groovy Scripting.
• Experience in deployment of multi-tenant Kubernetes platform.
• Understanding of basic Linux kernel and Windows server operating systems.
• Experience in working with Bash and PowerShell scripting.
• Must be able to solve complex business problems and present recommendations to management effectively.
• Must have good planning, organizational, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• With little supervision, must be able to define, shape, and drive projects to completion while effectively collaborating strategically with others.
• Must be results-driven, a quick learner, and a self-starter.

Desired Qualifications