Senior Azure Engineer

Fisher Investments - Fort Worth, TX

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Fort Worth, TX

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

About the position

The Senior Azure Engineer at Fisher Investments will play a crucial role in supporting the Portfolio Management Group's modernization initiatives. This position involves mentoring a team of cloud engineers and leveraging deep technical expertise in Azure services to guide strategic cloud programs that align with the company's growth objectives. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and managing Azure-based cloud infrastructure to ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of Azure resources with the Cloud Platform team.
• Design and manage scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure and automation tooling for routine operational tasks.
• Manage cloud costs and improve resource usage for cost efficiency.
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of the Azure environment through proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Investigate and monitor current-state cloud usage, solutions in use, risks, gaps, and recommend optimizations.
• Mitigate broken systems and prevent future disruptions.
• Consult and contribute to process improvements of IT policies, procedures, tools, and security controls.
• Conduct research and proof of concept activities for new technologies and tools.
• Work with solution architects to ensure developed solutions align with standards and security controls.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and automation in the Azure cloud environment.
• Stay updated with the latest Azure features and share knowledge with the team.
• Collaborate with scrum teams on Observability and Monitoring needs.
• Assist Product Owner(s) in identifying infrastructure needs for new features.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure across platform technology areas, with an emphasis on implementation and maintenance.
• 5+ years of experience building, deploying, and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services.
• Experience with configuration management and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolsets such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
• Scripting and automation experience for builds, workflows, and integration tasks.
• Experience building automated cloud infrastructure across Prod and Non-Prod environments.
• Experience in DevSecOps using GitHub, jFrog, and Octopus setup.
• Experience with Monitoring and Observability software and managing Highly Available API services.
• Experience tracing and troubleshooting issues in Hybrid environments.
• Experience with Linux and Microsoft Windows server administration.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required.

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.
• $10,000 fertility, hormonal health and family-forming benefit.
• Opportunity to participate in a hybrid work from home program, allowing up to 75 days per year based on tenure and performance.