DESCRIPTION:

JOB SUMMARY

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide Subject Matter Expertise (SME) for Azure hosted applications
• Provide SME support for application migration and integration projects taking place within Azure, including both design and support
• Work independently, and with the wider team, to analyze, unravel, and resolve issues in real time, providing end-to-end issues resolution
• Develop and maintain Powershell scripts to push system and application objects to dev/test/prod environments via DevOps processes
• Must demonstrate a complete understanding of IT and development infrastructure as configuration as code.
• Must have experience working with ARM templates and DSC resources.
• Participate in knowledge sharing activities in areas of expertise, including mentoring, cross training, documentation, and other activities as required to improve the technical expertise of the team as a whole
• Use existing tools to build automated processes to complete maintenance activities
• Tune the tools and processes to streamline maintenance tasks
• Evaluate the effectiveness of regular processes, track issues, document changes, and build automated procedures that promote an environment of continuous improvement within Azure
• Ensure all services and applications are operable in both Pre-Production and Production environments, and that they meet the proscribed SLA's for availability and performance
• Support the Azure deployment infrastructure through system performance tuning and maintenance tasks
• Provide daily operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting activities for Azure infrastructure and application releases – provide detailed reporting on all triage, investigation, failure recovery, and performance tuning activities
• Report all issues to the project manager, and escalate issues as needed through appropriate levels to achieve satisfactory results for the client
• May be required to be on-call, or provide weekend and after hours support for package deployments and issue resolution

REQUIREMENTS:

• Excellent PowerShell and scripting experience.
• Excellent DSC resource knowledge.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and SCM tools and practices.
• Ability to configure and run builds and release in TFS and Azure DevOps.
• Education (preferred):
  • BS degree with 8 years of relevant experience,
  • OR a Masters degree with 6 years of relevant experience
  • OR 10 years of proven related experience showing increasing systems complexity
• 8-10 years' experience in IT as a sys admin or network engineer
• 2 years' experience in Azure technologies, design, and development/engineering
• CompTIA Security certification or higher a plus​