Senior Azure Cloud Engineer (Remote)

$42,000 - $86,000/Yr

Xcel Engineering - Oak Ridge, TN

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Oak Ridge, TN

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Senior Azure Cloud Engineer at XCEL Engineering, Inc. is responsible for optimizing cloud-based solutions and providing technical expertise in cloud service categories. This role involves collaboration with engineering teams, mentorship, and ensuring high standards of application performance and security compliance. The position is remote and focuses on continuous improvement in cloud operations and engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Identify and implement optimized cloud-based solutions for the company.
• Define and record best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies.
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
• Manage cloud environments in accordance with company and Federal security guidelines.
• Provide technical expertise in cloud service categories such as PaaS/SaaS/IaaS.
• Design, build, maintain, document, and automate technical processes and operations using VMWare, vCenter, vSphere, Azure Virtual Machine.
• Implement configuration and deployment automation to improve functionality, availability, and manageability of enterprise cloud offerings.
• Design, implement, and test disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity architecture.
• Monitor and maintain multiple environments based on client requirements.
• Provide continuously improving sets of software and systems engineering practices for a streamlined IT environment.
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal, written, presentation, leadership, collaboration, facilitation and negotiation skills.
• Solve incidents, identify root cause, fix, and document problems, and implement preventive measures.
• Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required.

Requirements

• A BS in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis, or a related field of study.
• Eight (8) or more years of experience in cloud computing technologies.
• Experience with Azure Cloud.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (firewalls, load balancers, DNS, DHCP) and various virtualization technologies, including VMWare vCenter and vSphere.
• Experience in scripting languages such as Terraform, PowerShell, CloudFormation, Ansible Shell Scripting, Python, Ruby, PERL Scripting.

Nice-to-haves

• An advanced degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis, or a related field of study.
• Seven (7) or more years of experience in cloud computing technologies.
• Azure certifications.
• Experience in database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytics.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization, and both identity and access management.
• Familiarity with deployments in a hybrid cloud environment including data challenges with solution deployment across multiple clouds.
• Familiarity with Azure Open AI.

Benefits

• Work from home option
• Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
• Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities