Senior Azure Engineer

Fisher Investments - Carrollton, TX

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Carrollton, 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 programs by mentoring a team of cloud engineers and managing Azure-based cloud infrastructure. This position requires deep technical expertise in Azure services and the ability to guide strategic cloud initiatives that align with the company's growth objectives.

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.

Benefits

• 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for employees and qualifying dependents.
• 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.