Azure Cloud Operations Engineer - Automation & On-Call

eplusinc; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase program

Paid time off

Job summary

ePlus is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to join a team delivering Azure-based managed services. You will deploy, automate, and maintain Azure production environments, ensuring security, performance, and governance while supporting customer workloads in the public cloud.

You will drive improvements in architecture and processes, participate in on-call rotations, and work with diverse teams across multiple engineering domains to deliver reliable cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• 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
• Strong Written and Verbal Communication Skills
• Experience in 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
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work with a wide range of Customers across different verticals
• Experience in code development in at least one high-level programming language
• Cloud networking experience with services such as VNETs, ExpressRoute, VPN, Azure Firewall, Azure vWAN, Azure App Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, FrontDoor, and Traffic Manager
• Experience working in a complex CI/CD pipeline to include tools such as Azure DevOps
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) skillsets to include Azure Bicep, ARM Templates and/or other toolsets such as Terraform
• Knowledge of operating system administration to include Linux and Windows
• Microsoft technologies to include Active Directory, SQL, Patch Management, Certificate Services
• SIEM technologies to include Microsoft Sentinel and other Enterprise SIEMs such as Splunk
• Cloud Identity to include Active Directory and Azure Active Directory
• Cloud Security services to include Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, Azure Firewall, Azure WAF
• Kubernetes/Container security solutions such as Aqua and Palo Alto Prisma Cloud
• Knowledge of business continuity practices to include multi-region Disaster Recovery and Backup
• Kubernetes systems administration
• Experience with application load testing and quality assurance activities

Responsibilities

• Deployment, management, and maintenance of Azure production environments.
• Ensuring 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 systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on Azure platform.
• Maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.
• Participate regularly as a primary resource in an on-call rotation.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes security

Disaster Recovery

Linux administration

Windows administration

On-call support

Customer-facing communication

Education

Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

ARM Templates

Bicep

Splunk

Aqua Security

Job description

ePlus is seeking a Cloud Operations Engineer to join a team delivering Azure-based managed services. You will deploy, automate, and maintain Azure production environments, ensuring security, performance, and governance while supporting customer workloads in the public cloud.

You will drive improvements in architecture and processes, participate in on-call rotations, and work with diverse teams across multiple engineering domains to deliver reliable cloud solutions.