Senior Azure Cloud Analyst

Albin Engineering Services, Inc. (www.aesi.com) is looking for a Sr Azure Cloud Analyst for one of our premier clients in the St Louis, MO area. This role will be working a first shift. As our employee, you qualify for our full benefit package.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation that may include detailed technical documents
• Create process flows, business requirements, functional specifications, and user guides, with a strong emphasis on cloud-based systems
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and validate business and technical requirements related to cloud infrastructure and cost management
• Design and document process flows to support cloud service management, price tracking, and operational improvements
• Support testing activities by creating and executing test plans, test cases, and automated testing scripts
• Identify opportunities for process improvement in cloud operations and price tracking and collaborate with teams to implement effective solutions
• Facilitate communication and alignment between business units and engineering teams
• Find the sequence of events, gap analysis, relationships and dependency mapping
• Track and report on project progress, risks, and issues related to requirements, testing, cloud cost optimization, and price tracking
• Promote best practices in documentation, requirements management, testing methodologies, and cloud cost governance
• Support the evaluation and integration of Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) cloud tools and platforms to enhance operational efficiency
• Develop training materials and conduct knowledge transfer sessions to educate teams on cloud processes, documentation standards, and testing procedures
• Assist in enforcing various policies that may include security, compliance, and cost management
  
  
  

Requirements:

• 5 years of experience analyzing and documenting systems, applications and processes
• 5 years of experience developing and documenting application requirements from complex user flows and processes
• 5 years of experience in developing and executing test plans and test cases
• 3 years of experience with Agile software development lifecycle
  
  
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work or military experience
• Current Azure cloud certifications
• Experience with Confluence and Jira for documentation and tracking work
• Experience with automating test cases utilizing test framework tools
• Experience with in procon analysis in COTS solutions
• Experience with identifying quality control issues in documentation
  
  
  

Security Clearance

Due to the nature of the work, this position requires an active U.S. Secret Security Clearance.