Sr. Staff Azure Cloud Engineer

ZT Systemsposted 14 days ago

Full-time • Senior

Secaucus, NJ

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

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About the position

The Sr. Staff Azure Cloud Engineer will work with our team to provide support for a wide range of IT systems and services including the corporate virtualization environment. As the Sr. Staff Azure Cloud Systems Engineer you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure. As a Sr. Staff IT Cloud Systems Engineer, you will work in a fast-paced environment and apply your technical knowledge to solve issues that will span multiple IT environments. This is a fulltime role for a Azure Cloud Engineer and reports to our Secaucus, NJ office five days a week. Please apply only if this criteria matches your expectations.

Responsibilities

Participate in projects and engineer new systems.
Monitor performance of critical servers and applications.
Manage the load configuration and make recommendations for purchase or upgrade of hardware as well as the tuning of software.
Engage and manage 3rd-party vendors to achieve expedient resolution.
Using appropriate cloud services to design and deploy architecture and applications based on given customer and/or Solutions Architect's requirements.
Building highly available/fault-tolerant enterprise class infrastructure with multiple-region and multi-AZ models.
Create and maintain system documentation for specifications, designs, procedures, and logs.
Document all processes, system changes/fixes, and issues.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
Minimum of 8 + years of cloud migrations and high proficiency in IaaS, PaaS, SaaS environments primarily focused on Azure.
Strong operational implementation experience or working knowledge of cloud identity or access management solutions enforcing security guidelines.
Using Configuration Management and Configuration Orchestration tools, such as Ansible, Terraform.
Work with one or more scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Powershell, Python, PHP, etc.).
Improve the security posture by performing various assessments and analyses using tools like Ansible and Prisma.
Design, Develop, and maintain automation scripts using tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery.
Ensure secure design principles are followed throughout the cloud architecture.
Implement least privilege access controls and monitor security events.
Collaborate with security teams to address vulnerabilities and maintain compliance.
Focus on Microsoft Intune for device management, configuration, and security.
Experience with being a team lead and cross-training, mentoring and providing support for team members.
Improve resiliency for all cloud applications and infrastructure and ensure that HA, DR, Data Protection requirements are appropriately engineered and implemented for each workload.
Deep knowledge of networking topologies and engineering, including DNS, Load Balancers, Gateway Devices and Web Application Firewalls.
In-depth knowledge of Azure networking services such as Azure Virtual WAN, VNETS, management of Azure Application/Network Security Groups, Private Link, VNET peering, Routing, Express Route, Site-to-Site VPN, and Point-to-Site VPN.
In-depth knowledge of security and IAM / Role Based Access Controls in Azure, Azure Policy, and Azure Management Groups and Subscriptions.
Knowledge with AWS design, architecture and services (EC2, IAM, S3, ELB/ALB, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, ECS/EKS, etc.).
Experience with automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure.
Knowledge of system monitoring in a cloud environment including cloud specific products and tools.
Experience with CMK (Customer Managed Keys) and BYOK (Bring Your Own Key).
Experience with AWS Workspace (VDI), Azure VDI and creation of custom images.