Azure technical lead

Fisher Investments - Melissa, TX

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Melissa, TX

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

About the position

The Azure Technical Lead will play a crucial role in the Fisher Investments Technology Department by mentoring and guiding a team of cloud engineers in the design, implementation, and management of Azure-based cloud infrastructure. This position focuses on enhancing the firm's technology capabilities to support global growth, ensuring the reliability and efficiency of cloud services while fostering a collaborative work environment.

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, with the possibility to work from home up to 60 days per year based on tenure and performance eligibility.