Azure Cloud Operations Engineer - Automation & On-Call

ePlus Technology, inc.; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

ePlus Technology, inc. is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to join a team that supports customer workloads in the public cloud. You will deploy, automate, and manage Azure production environments while ensuring availability, security, and performance.

This role requires hands-on experience with Azure IaaS/PaaS, CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, and IaC tools such as Bicep, ARM Templates, or Terraform. You will participate in on-call rotations and collaborate across distributed teams to

Qualifications

• 2+ years deploying and supporting Azure environments
• 3+ years deploying and supporting complex datacenter and/or public cloud environments
• Azure Certified DevOps Engineer Expert certification or other Azure related certification preferred
• Strong Written and Verbal Communication Skills
• Experience with customer facing consulting or support roles is a plus
• Azure experience with multiple IaaS and PaaS services
• Ability to troubleshoot complex, interdisciplinary public cloud technical issues
• Ability to work in a diverse and geographically dispersed team environment with multiple engineering resources
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work with a wide range of Customers
• Experience in code development in at least one high-level programming language
• Cloud networking experience with VNETs, ExpressRoute, VPN, Azure Firewall, Azure vWAN, Azure App Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, FrontDoor, Traffic Manager
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Azure Bicep, ARM Templates and/or Terraform
• Knowledge of OS administration Linux and Windows
• Microsoft technologies (AD, SQL, Patch Management, Certificate Services)
• SIEM technologies (Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk)
• Cloud Identity (AD, Azure AD)
• Cloud Security services (Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, Azure Firewall, Azure WAF)
• Kubernetes/Container security solutions (Aqua, Prisma Cloud)
• Business continuity and multi-region Disaster Recovery/Backups
• Experience with application load testing and quality assurance
• 2+ years of experience in deploying and supporting of Azure environments
• 3+ years of experience in deploying and supporting complex datacenter and/or public cloud environments
• Azure Certified DevOps Engineer Expert certification or other Azure related certification preferred

Responsibilities

• Deploy, automate, manage, and maintain Azure production environments
• Ensure availability, performance, security, governance and scalability of Azure production systems
• Management of creation, release, and configuration of production systems
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms
• Validation of new customer deployments
• Deployment in conjunction with best practice design and governance
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements
• Deployment and configuration of metrics, logging, and monitoring on Azure
• Maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes
• Participate regularly as a primary resource in an on-call rotation

Job description

ePlus Technology, inc. is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to join a team that supports customer workloads in the public cloud. You will deploy, automate, and manage Azure production environments while ensuring availability, security, and performance.

This role requires hands-on experience with Azure IaaS/PaaS, CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, and IaC tools such as Bicep, ARM Templates, or Terraform. You will participate in on-call rotations and collaborate across distributed teams to