Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer

K&K Global Talent Solutions Inc. is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the Canada and the USA region since 1993.

This position is with one of our clients in USA, who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.

Role:- MS Azure Cloud Engineer   

Location:- Seattle, WA/St Louis, MO/Plano, TX (onsite)  

Fulltime

Job Description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

•             Broad experience in network and/or Infrastructure Cloud architecture and solutioning, including knowledge of Cloud offerings and virtualization technologies

•             Knowledge of DevOps tool (MYSQL DB) stack and product road map

•             Linux and Windows platform experience

•             Good understanding of Network and protocols 

•             MS Azure cloud engineer experience

•             Advanced knowledge of design concepts and patterns

•             DevOps tool stack Modernization 

Roles & Responsibilities

•              Integrate DevSecOps practices into CI/CD Pipelines

•             Collaborate with Cloud and Development Platform Team to consume and extend reusable IaC templates

•              Delivery of assigned Programs / Projects through the consumption of established technology services, patterns, strategies and roadmaps

•             Technology Architecture creation for projects and other initiatives

•             Validation of technology requirements to ensure they are fit for purpose and cost effective and practical

•             Articulate platform functional and non-functional requirements to support assignment outcomes

•             Contribute to the development of technology platform strategy and roadmaps

•             Actively support and contribute during Delivery Planning activities and outputs

•             Manage architecture and solution dependencies within the assignment

•             Create, execute and maintain a technology roadmap by working closely with the business.

•             Select strategies, patterns, practices and approaches for Infrastructure modernizing and enable product teams to adopt, all while continuing development and maintenance on existing applications.

•             Design applications to be adaptable, cost-optimized, cloud-native SaaS technologies in a globally distributed, multi-platform environment.

•             Work closely with APP teams and C&D Platform teams to ensure security standards and regulatory compliance minimum requirements are adhered to.

•             Mitigating the CVE related vulnerabilities 

•             Understanding security standards and its technologies 

•             Following customer expectations and executing the plan accordingly. 

•             Control access and secret management to safeguard credentials and permissions

•             Develop and maintain runbooks, documentation, and conduct surveys for continuous service improvement

•             Monitor and optimize cloud costs to ensure efficient resource utilization

•             Provide 24*7 support for Cloud Infrastructure, setup incident respon se processes within SLAs, Maintain on-call rotation and escalation matrix and own incident documentation and RCA reports

Generic Managerial Skills, If any

•             Strong Communication Skill

•             Create status reports and publish

•             Coordinate with multiple stake holders

•             Coordinate with team across multiple tower

•             Experience in technology risk mitigation and good stakeholder management skills preference