Azure Cloud Engineer 3

Public Partnerships - Helena, MT

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Helena, MT

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 while mentoring junior staff.

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, business teams on capacity planning, and cost management.
• Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of business development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness, infrastructure flexibility, and performance.
• Manage Azure cloud environments and adhere to standards of confidentiality, security, and privacy.
• Share expertise throughout the organization and may provide user training for products.
• Evaluate engineering approaches and risks to produce development plans that ensure high-quality, low-cost solutions and systems.
• 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, Storage include Blob and File Shares, Communication services, etc.
• Deploy, configure and maintain Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service environments.
• Author and update technical documentation, runbooks, ops guides, and presentations when needed.
• Participate and lead in process design and tool selection ensuring compliance with HIPAA, SOC II, and information security policy and procedures.
• Review, mentor, and coach, while defining and promoting 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; participates in professional development activities as appropriate.
• 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 some combination of 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, & analytical skills