Azure Cloud Engineer 3

Unclassified - Salem, OR

Part-time - Mid Level

Salem, OR

About the position

The Azure Cloud Engineer 3 is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting secure, scalable, and highly available solutions within the Azure environment. This role involves anticipating and resolving issues affecting cloud systems performance and efficiency, utilizing automation tools, and collaborating with various teams for capacity planning and cost management. The engineer will also manage Azure cloud environments, ensure compliance with security standards, and provide training and support to users.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable, and highly available solutions across Azure environment.
• Anticipate, mitigate, identify, respond to, and resolve problems affecting cloud systems performance, efficiency, and availability.
• Use GIT and automation tools like GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Terraform to implement and manage end-to-end automation.
• Participate and lead planning sessions with product and business teams on capacity planning and cost management.
• Conduct research on emerging technologies to recommend cost-effective and flexible infrastructure solutions.
• Manage Azure cloud environments adhering to confidentiality, security, and privacy standards.
• Share expertise throughout the organization and provide user training for products.
• Evaluate engineering approaches and risks to produce development plans for high-quality, low-cost solutions.
• Deploy and configure Azure Data Lake Storage, Data Factory, and Databricks services.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain multiple Azure services including API Management, App Services, Service Bus, Key Vault, and Storage.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service environments.
• Author and update technical documentation, runbooks, ops guides, and presentations as needed.
• Participate and lead in process design and tool selection ensuring compliance with HIPAA, SOC II, and information security policies.
• Review, mentor, and coach while promoting standards, best practices, and lessons learned.
• Work with end users, product analysts, and developers to understand features and technical implementations.
• Provide 2nd and 3rd level support for infrastructure systems in a 24x7 environment.
• Liaise with 3rd party suppliers and other IT professionals for incident and problem resolution.
• Participate in on-call rotations.

Requirements

• Strong experience with Azure IaaS/PaaS services: VM, VNET, Storage, ARM, NSG, WAF, FrontDoor, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Azure DB services, Azure Data Lake services.
• Demonstrable experience with programming/scripting in Python, PowerShell, JSON, JavaScript.
• Strong understanding of Identity and Access Management protocols like SSO, OIDC, OAuth including RBAC roles and ACLs in Azure and Entra ID.
• Experience with cloud configuration, monitoring, and logging services: Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, Dynatrace, and Log Analytics Services.
• Strong experience with Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Strong knowledge in working with Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals and components: load balancers, SSL certificates, TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls.
• Familiarity with Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Data Lake.
• Working experience in building and configuring secure, stable, and enterprise-level infrastructure.
• Excellent organization, time management, problem solving, and analytical skills.