Cloud Automation Engineer

About the position

Cloud automation engineer will serve as a practitioner of cutting-edge automation tools and provisioning public cloud as Code, work with a team of individuals who are committed to define and deliver cloud solutions by providing security, reliability, availability, and self-service functions which deliver cloud platform needs for product development teams. You'll provide technical leadership on automated deployments and self-service for delivering various Azure services.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code mindset. All resources and policies deployed into the various cloud accounts will need to be managed with Code, automate solutions, removing toil whenever possible.
• Design, develop and modify code to deliver Azure Core Services with automation and infrastructure as code.
• Translate design decisions, architecture designs to code for continuous deployment and repeatability.
• Leverage the latest DevOps and Cloud automation tools such as ARM Template, Bicep Powershell, Terraform, ansible, salt stack, python, Azure DevOps, and/or GitHub Actions to deploy cloud solutions.
• Strong dedication to high quality and standards for your code and your team's code.
• Leads team's coding practices, release management, branching strategies for delivering code.
• Collaborate with other passionate individuals on automation strategy and best practices.
• Create and document low-level designs, as built and standards on confluence.
• Collaborate with Solution architecture, Platform engineering and Product teams for delivering IaC.
• Work within a project management/agile scrum teams in a leading role as part of a wider team.
• Utilizes Agile and Devops Processes and Principles, Crafts CI/CD pipelines; converting builds to use native Azure build and release pipelines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of IT experience focused on infrastructure which includes server, storage, network, security, Identity.
• 3+ years demonstrated experience in automation, configuration management, DevOps practices, Infrastructure as Code by deploying modern public/private cloud services across a broad range of technologies.
• 2+ years of experience of with IaC tools (ARM, Terraform, JSON,YAML, PowerShell, git, Github enterprise etc).
• Engineering expertise with DevSecOps practices like Infrastructure as code, End to end cloud resource lifecycle (CI/CD), service integration experience and Development of infrastructure templates (ARM, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Deployment Manager).
• Ability to work in an Extreme Programming environment and work in a paired programming/engineering model.
• Hands on experience with IaC tools like ADO, ARM, terraform, ansible, PowerShell, python, azcli, github.
• Technical understanding of Windows/Linux/VMware/Hyper-V/AKS, SQL and N0-SQL DB's, IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, Data, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, Monitoring, Identity and Connectivity.
• DevOps tool chain deployment, establish CI/CD tools, code repository, code scanning, artifact repo, compliance scanning, packaging, deployment, and configuration management.
• Able to facilitate diverse teams, multi-task, and work under pressure to meet aggressive schedule targets.
• At least 2 - 4 years of hands-on technical experience building code for the following or related experience: Azure Virtual Network, VWAN, Express route, Load Balancer (L4/L7), Traffic Manager, CDN, Azure DNS, routing & routing protocols like BGP, firewall concepts.
• Azure Identity including any of the following: Azure AD, PIM, Conditional Access, MFA, Azure AD Connect, Password less sign-ins, Microsoft Defender, key vault.
• Azure Governance, Security, Monitoring, Workbooks, Policies, Compliance, and cost awareness.
• Azure Virtual Machines, Containers and/or Kubernetes and/or OpenShift (infrastructure perspective).
• Azure Storage Account, Disk, Snapshot, Backup, Site Recovery, file sync, Data Lake, HDInsights, Databricks, Data factory.
• Certification in Azure Administrator required.
• Azure DevOps required.

Nice-to-haves

• Azure Solutions Architect -preferred.
• Experience working in Product development/engineering teams.

Benefits

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are infused in our business.
• Total wellness, which encompasses a blend of physical, financial and emotional wellness.
• Collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning.
• Personal and professional growth are just as important as business growth.