What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cloud Network Engineer-Azure position at AIFA Solutions?
Role: Cloud Network Engineer-Azure OR Cloud & Network Solutions Architect
Location: Libertyville, IL (Onsite)
Duration: Long-term
Key Responsibilities:
Cloud Engineering / Networking Responsibilities:
- Develop, Design and implement- Azure Cloud Services: Azure Virtual Machines, App Services, AKS, Functions, Storage, Monitor
- Develop, Design and implement VNETs, Subnets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, SDWAN and network solutions
- Automation & DevOps -Design and implement support for ARM Templates, Terraform, PowerShell, CI/CD Pipelines
- Performance & Cost Optimization – Autoscaling, Load Balancing, Reserved Instances
- Design for scalability, reliability, availability, and security of systems.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize performance and maintain resilient systems.
- Investigate and evaluate market and technology trends
- Foster a collaborative troubleshooting environment.
Project Management:
- Lead infrastructure projects (e.g., Cloud integrations, system deployments, network upgrades).
- Define project scope, timelines, and resource allocation.
- Monitor progress and address any issues.
Security and Compliance:
- Implement and adhere to and enforce security policies and best practices.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., ISO, NIST).
- Remediate vulnerabilities and provide systems built with security by design.
- Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture
- Support Identity & Access Management Standards, Azure AD, RBAC
Vendor Management:
- Evaluate technology vendors and ensure services and service levels are defined and considered.
- Maintain vendor relationships and monitor service levels.
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity:
- Plan and test disaster recovery procedures.
- Minimize downtime during critical incidents.
- Azure Site Recovery, Backup, Geo Redundancy
System / Networking Assessment Responsibilities:
- Review and assess the enterprise network landscape including LAN, WAN, Fiber and Voice for Hollister’s Tennessee locations.
- Evaluate on-prem and cloud network security posture.
- Assess server and compute platforms across on-prem and cloud environments.
- Review storage, backup, restore and disaster recovery solutions.
- Document consolidated findings, and recommendations for the above.
- Create Network Assessment Report – Architecture and configuration details of network Devices
- Create Server Assessment Report - Capacity, performance, availability details of On-prem and cloud servers
- Create Security Assessment Report - Identified risks and vulnerabilities on network, server, access control & firewall.