Azure Cloud Engineer 3

Public Partnerships - Augusta, ME

Full-time - Mid Level

Augusta, ME

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Azure Cloud Engineer 3 role at Public Partnerships LLC involves designing, implementing, and supporting secure and scalable solutions within the Azure environment. The position requires a proactive approach to problem-solving, ensuring high availability and performance of cloud systems, and collaborating with various teams for capacity planning and cost management. The engineer will also manage Azure services, provide user training, and maintain compliance with security policies.

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, etc. 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 ensuring high-quality, low-cost solutions.
• Deploy and configure Azure Data Lake Storage, Data Factory, and Databricks services.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain multiple Azure services like Azure 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 the use of standards, best practices, and lessons learned.
• Work with end users, product analysts, and developers to understand features and technical implementations.
• Maintain a broad knowledge of state-of-the-art computer technology, equipment, and systems; participate in professional development activities.
• 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.
• Perform all duties as assigned.

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.