Sr. Staff Azure Cloud Systems Engineer

Zt Group - Secaucus, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Secaucus, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Sr. Staff Azure Cloud Systems Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure, particularly focusing on Azure. This role involves providing support for a wide range of IT systems and services, including corporate virtualization environments. The engineer will work in a fast-paced environment, applying technical knowledge to solve issues across multiple IT environments.

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.
• Use appropriate cloud services to design and deploy architecture and applications based on customer requirements.
• Build 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 with 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.
• Experience with Configuration Management and Configuration Orchestration tools, such as Ansible and Terraform.
• Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Powershell, Python, PHP).
• Experience in improving security posture by performing assessments and analyses using tools like Ansible and Prisma.
• Ability to design, develop, and maintain automation scripts using tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Experience in implementing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines for efficient software delivery.
• Knowledge of secure design principles throughout cloud architecture.
• Experience in implementing least privilege access controls and monitoring security events.
• Collaboration with security teams to address vulnerabilities and maintain compliance.
• Focus on Microsoft Intune for device management, configuration, and security.
• Experience in team leadership, cross-training, mentoring, and providing support for team members.
• Ability to improve resiliency for all cloud applications and infrastructure, ensuring HA, DR, and Data Protection requirements are met.
• 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, and management of Azure Application/Network Security Groups.
• Knowledge of security and IAM / Role Based Access Controls in Azure, Azure Policy, and Azure Management Groups and Subscriptions.
• Familiarity with AWS design, architecture, and services (EC2, IAM, S3, ELB/ALB, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, ECS/EKS).
• 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.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• 401K matching
• Comprehensive health & wellness programs
• Tuition reimbursement