Azure technical lead

$100,000 - $180,000/Yr

Fisher Investments - Yacolt, WA

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Yacolt, WA

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

About the position

As an Azure Technical Lead at Fisher Investments, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Cloud Platform team by mentoring and guiding a group of cloud engineers. This position focuses on designing, implementing, and managing Azure-based cloud infrastructure while contributing to process improvements and ensuring the reliability and performance of cloud services. Your expertise will help drive the development of scalable solutions that align with the company's global growth objectives.

Responsibilities

• Guide, mentor, and manage a team of cloud engineers fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Conduct regular team meetings for architecture/design reviews, code reviews, cross team collaboration opportunities, and training sessions to ensure continuous development and alignment with company goals.
• Aide in designing and managing scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure and automation tooling for routine operation tasks.
• Oversee the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of Azure resources.
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of the Azure environment through proactive monitoring, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Manage cloud costs and optimize resource usage to achieve cost efficiency.
• Work with solution architects and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls and meet cloud computing best practices.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and the adoption of new technologies to enhance the Azure cloud environment.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest Azure features, tools, and best practices, and disseminate this knowledge to the team.
• Investigate and monitor current-state cloud usage, solutions in use, risks, gaps, limitations and recommend solutions, optimizations and remediation.
• Ensure cloud services and toolsets are deployed with best practices and documentation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure cross platform technology areas, with implementing and maintaining expertise.
• 5+ years of experience building, deploying and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services.
• Experience building an automated cloud infrastructure across Prod and Non-Prod environments.
• Scripting and automation of builds, workflows, tasks and other integration aspects.
• Linux and Microsoft Windows server administration.
• Configuration management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolsets including (eg Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and Chef).

Benefits

• 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents.
• A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum.
• 20 days of PTO, plus 10 paid holidays.
• Family Support programs including 8 week Paid Primary Caregiver Leave, fertility, family forming, and hormonal health assistance and back-up child, adult, and elder care.
• $10,000 fertility, hormonal health and family-forming benefit.
• Opportunity to participate in our hybrid work from home program, allowing up to 60 days of work from home per year based on tenure and performance eligibility.