Azure Cloud Engineer - Senior Associate

Company Description

• Develop moderately complex solutions for application design and IT infrastructure components.
• Understand the end-to-end performance of IT platforms.
• Draft and maintain policies, guidelines, and standard operating procedures.
• Independently monitor advanced performance and capacity metrics for technology solutions.
• Develop framework for charge-back (or show-back) reporting model for cloud costs back to product owners
• Identify, recommend, and implement automation to implement cost optimizations
• Maintain, improve and secure company's multi cloud infrastructure and associated processes
• Partner with internal key stakeholders (InfoSec, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud COE, networking) and industry leaders to maintain a current security posture for the cloud services

• 2 years of relevant professional work experience
• Familiar with Cloud capabilities, products and services for Azure, and other Microsoft products and services (i.e. Azure Information Protection, Microsoft Cloud App Security, Microsoft 365, etc.).
• Experience consulting with engineering teams on designing and implementing Cloud or Data Center solutions including aspects like compute, network, storage, security, monitoring, automation, and cost optimization
• Experience implementing security controls in cloud, Data Center or hybrid environments
• Understanding of core technologies (i.e. DNS, DHCP, Wireless, Active Directory etc.) and how they integrate in a multi/hybrid cloud environment

• Bachelor degree or equivalent
• Experience with planning, monitoring, optimization of cloud costs; Azure or multi-cloud experience is a plus
• Experience with industry tools for cloud (or traditional) cost management
• Strong scripting and automation experience; Azure preferable
• Manage and improve the communication between operations and product teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a high degree of comfort with both large and small audiences
• Ability to effectively address technical questions/with various audiences, including non-technical teams, at all levels in the organization
• Capacity to drive hands-on technical engagements with the customers and guide them through cloud
• Employ creativity to devise effective and efficient strategies
• Passion for technology, with an ability to understand and assess new technologies, and their potential applicability to business needs in an efficient, effective manner
• Ability to work in an Agile format with stakeholders across multiple organizations to design and implement cloud agnostic solutions