Sr. Azure Infra Engineer

Rapinno Tech; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company based in Texas seeks an experienced Azure IAC Engineer to enhance their cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include evangelizing cloud best practices, developing Terraform templates, and maintaining Azure infrastructure. Candidates should have over 10 years of DevOps experience, strong knowledge of Azure and AWS, and experience in developing immutable infrastructures. This role also involves collaborating with multiple teams and staying adaptive to new technologies.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in development or DevOps roles.
• 5+ years of Azure administration and development including various Azure services.
• Some AWS experience with relevant services.
• Proficient using Azure and AWS CLI and experience with Terraform and Helm.
• Experience with GitLab and Nexus for CI/CD and artifact management.

Responsibilities

• Evangelize cloud best practices to delivery teams and develop reusable cloud enablers.
• Collaboratively drive new solutions and help architect the platform infrastructure.
• Maintain and extend the Delivery Infrastructure on Azure.
• Set up and manage AKS clusters with AutoScaling and integrate with Azure services like Monitoring, IAM, and VNet.
• Work on Azure networking and security, adapt quickly to changes, and learn new technologies as needed.

Skills

Azure administration and development

Cloud best practices

Automation using Azure Functions and AWS Lambda

GitLab

Nexus

Terraform

Helm

Networking and security

Education

AWS certified (Associate or Professional level)

Tools

Azure CLI

AWS CLI

GitLab

Nexus

Helm

AKS

EKS

Job description

Must haves

• 10+ years of experience in development or DevOps roles.
• 5+ years of Azure administration and development including hands on Azure experience with Azure Load Balancing, Azure VM, AKS, Azure Container Registries, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure IAM, AutoScaling, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, Log Analytics, Azure Security Center, Azure WAF
• Some AWS experience with the following services: ELB, EC2, EKS, ECR, S3, SQS, SNS, SSM, Secrets Manager, KMS, RDS, IAM, AutoScaling, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Config, Inspector, and WAF.
• Must be highly proficient using the Azure and AWS CLI.
• Recent experience using both GitLab and Nexus.

Job Description

• As a member of our DI team you will Evangelize cloud best practices to the application and product delivery teams, alongside developing and guiding the other delivery teams to develop reusable cloud enablers (eg Terraform templates)
• You will work with the product and delivery teams to collaboratively drive new solutions, proof of concepts and help drive the architectural direction of the platform Infrastructure. As a part of this you will be responsible for producing analysis and design documents for proposals and implementation changes.
• Your duties as an Azure IAC engineer will also focus on extending the Atlas Platform Delivery Infrastructure from bootstrapping AWS Accounts to also include bootstrapping Azure accounts.
• You will be responsible also for maintaining and extending the Delivery Infrastructure on Azure.
• The goal is for all resources to be managed via Infrastructure as Code. Therefore strong hands on experience developing immutable infrastructures on Azure using Terraform is required as well as experience with Helm.
• Our platform also uses Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to deploy and manage our containerized applications on AWS. The successful candidate will be proficient in setting up AutoScaling AKS clusters and have a deep understanding of how AKS integrates with other Azure services such as Azure Monitoring, Auto Scaling Groups, Azure Identity and Access Management (IAM), and Azure Virtual Network (VNet)
• Experience in Azure networking and security is required.
• Ability to quickly adapt to changes and strong appetite to learn new technologies will be desired.

Nice to haves

• Helm experience is also desired.
• Experience developing automation using Azure functions and AWS Lambda (preferably with Python ) is also highly desirable.
• Experience in networking and security is highly desired.
• Proven communications skills including technical writing and presentation
• Comfortable in coordinating across geographically diverse delivery and product teams
• Strong Experience working with Development methodologies like Agile & Scrum.

Education/Certifications

AWS certified (Associate or Professional level.) desired