Azure Cloud Engineer- Onsite in Alpharetta GA

Matlen Silver; Alpharetta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 134,000; Part time

Job summary

Matlen Silver seeks an Azure focused Senior Cloud Systems Engineer in Alpharetta, GA for a 12-month contract role (W2, on-site). The role is open to permanent residents only.

You will serve as SME for Azure environments, collaborate with Professional Services and Product teams, improve build pipelines, and guide on-call production incident response.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with Azure platform.
• 4+ years of practical experience utilizing Azure data migration tools.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education, and work experience.

Responsibilities

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert in Azure for the Hosted Operations Team.
• Utilize CICD concepts and tools such as Harness Octopus Deploy.
• Manage the lifecycle of IaaS VMs - troubleshoot VM boot issues, Backup/Restore VM and Disks (Snapshot and Recovery Vault), Imaging, Resizing and Scaling VMs.
• Utilize Azure Monitor, configuring diagnostic settings, Log Analytics, Application Insights and writing Log Analytics queries via Kusto Query Language.
• Building and running applications in AKS and serve as a point of escalation for complex Azure cases.
• Participate in inter-departmental planning meetings on suggested solutions for existing issues as well as systemic and process improvements.
• Work with internal team on identifying pain points in Azure deployments and configuration and ways to alleviate them.
• Maintain and enhance current client environment configurations. Organize and execute training sessions for new workflows and procedure recommendations.
• Accountable for driving production incidents to resolution, by analyzing and coordinating with the required parties and always acting as the owner and leader of the situation.

Skills

Azure

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Harness Octopus Deploy

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Application Insights

Kusto Query Language

AKS

ACI

Azure DevOps pipelines

PowerShell

CLI

ARM templates

RBAC

Key Vault

Azure Policy

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

Job Title: Azure Cloud Engineer

Pay Rate: $61.07/hr on W2

Location: Alpharetta Georgia 30004

Schedule: On-site (5 days)

Position: Contract

Duration: 12 months with potential to extend

Employment Type: W2

***Due to client requirements this role is only open to permanent resident***

Job Summary:

As an Azure focused Senior Cloud Systems Engineer, you will be tasked with being the subject matter expert for our Azure environments. You will also be working with our Professional Services and Product Departments to provide feedback on our build pipeline and collaborate on improving our internal tools. Our Engineers play a critical role in the success of our clients and are expected to effectively communicate our recommended solutions in a consultative role for each client.

What you’ll do:

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert in Azure for the Hosted Operations Team
• Utilize CICD concepts and tools such as Harness Octopus Deploy
• Manage the lifecycle of IaaS VMs - troubleshoot VM boot issues, Backup/Restore VM and Disks (Snapshot and Recovery Vault), Imaging, Resizing and Scaling VMs
• Utilize Azure Monitor, this will include configuring and maintaining the following: diagnostic settings, Log Analytics, Application Insights and writing Log Analytics queries via Kusto Query Language
• Building and running applications in AKS and serve as a point of escalation for complex Azure cases
• Participate in inter-departmental planning meetings on suggested solutions for existing issues as well as systemic and process improvements
• Work with internal team on identifying pain points in Azure deployments and configuration and ways to alleviate them
• Maintain and enhance current client environment configurations Organize and execute training sessions for new workflows and procedure recommendations
• Accountable for driving production incidents to resolution, by analyzing and coordinating with the required parties and always acting as the owner and leader of the situation

Experience you’ll need to have:

• 4+ years of experience with Azure platform
• 4+ years of practical experience utilizing Azure data migration tools
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education, and work experience

Experience that would be great to have:

• Azure Resource Management, Azure Monitor, & Azure Security. Experience with PowerShell, CLI, and ARM templates
• Proficiency with Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault & Azure Policy
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Instances (ACI), & Azure DevOps pipelines
• Scripting skills: Bash/Python/PowerShell
• Splunk & Dynatrace Experience
• Windows administration experience