Azure Cloud Engineer

$110,000 - $150,000/Yr

Alvarez & Marsal - Houston, TX

Part-time - Mid Level

Houston, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Cloud Engineer at Alvarez & Marsal will play a crucial role in the IT Engineering Team, focusing primarily on Microsoft Azure. This position involves architecting, designing, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure and services, ensuring security best practices, and automating processes to enhance efficiency. The Cloud Engineer will collaborate with various teams and end users to maintain production and development environments in a global 24/7/365 setting.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, deploy, and manage Azure IaaS deployment infrastructure based on requirements and best practices.
• Automate configurations and deployments using scripts, ensuring a consistent and streamlined setup across various environments.
• Implement and enforce security best practices, such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), private endpoint connections, and RBAC roles.
• Continuously research and stay updated with cloud advancements, suggesting improvements and updates to the company's existing setup.
• Architect, design and deployment of Secured Azure Landing Zones with segmented deployment groups.
• Architect, design, deploy, and manage Azure SaaS and PaaS services and solutions.
• Cost management of Azure services and implementation of a tagging strategy for Cloud Resources and Assets with an associated taxonomy in support of cost rebilling, reporting, and compliance.
• Planning and migration of existing workloads into Azure.
• Design, build, upgrade, and decommission various Windows and Linux systems, features, and services.
• Automate the delivery of Azure and VMware services.
• Respond to monitoring alerts of any health issues within the Azure and VMware environments.
• Liaise effectively with 3rd party suppliers and support providers to ensure issues and solutions are provided within expected service levels.
• Provide training and act as a point of escalation for the Service Desk and supporting team members.
• Recommend areas where existing policies and procedures require change or where new ones need to be developed.
• Create supporting documentation for various audiences.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of experience in architecture, design, deployment, and maintenance of public cloud solutions with a focus on Microsoft Azure IaaS.
• Minimum 3 years of experience providing IT administration and/or engineering services managing Windows and Linux Servers and Services.
• Expert knowledge of Azure CLI PowerShell, ARM Templates, Azure Networking, Azure Virtual Networks, ExpressRoutes, and Site-to-Site-VPN.
• Experience implementing Cisco and/or F5 virtual appliances, automated deployment solutions, with a focus on ServiceNow catalog deployments.
• Extensive experience with Azure services and solutions.
• Proficient in scripting for automating deployments and configurations.
• Strong understanding of cloud security best practices.
• Knowledge of various governance frameworks such as SOX, SC-II, HIPPA, PCI, and experience with implementing associated security and compliance controls.
• Intermediate knowledge of Azure DevOps configuration and Management, Azure Security Center, and Azure Identity Management.
• Experience with cloud monitoring including Azure Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, and Application insights.

Nice-to-haves

• Certification in one or more multiple public cloud environments from different vendors (Azure, AWS, GCP, OCI, etc) preferred.
• Experience with securing and hardening of server environments and serverless code development and deployment.
• Experience implementing DevOPS practices including Infrastructure-As-Code (IAC), Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI / CD), and automated testing.
• Experience with planning and executing migrations from on-premises data centers to public cloud environments.
• Experience in Terraform and/or Ansible and/or AWS CloudFormation IaC tools.
• Script Experience - PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar.
• Experience developing or supporting applications using microservices architecture.
• Experience with relational databases such as MS SQL.

Benefits

• Healthcare plans
• Flexible spending and savings accounts
• Life, AD&D, and disability coverages
• 401(k) retirement plan with discretionary contributions
• Paid time off including vacation, personal days, and sick time
• Ten federal holidays and one floating holiday
• Parental leave