What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer position at Smart IT Frame LLC?
Title: Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer
Location: Onsite - Chicago, IL
Type: Contract
About Smart IT Frame:
At Smart IT Frame, we connect top talent with leading organizations across the USA. With over a decade of staffing excellence, we specialize in IT, healthcare, and professional roles, empowering both clients and candidates to grow together.
The top 3 skills required for this role are
- Jira
- Azure
- Datadog
Job Description/ Responsibilities
- We are seeking a skilled Architect with 10 to 14 years of experience to join our team in a hybrid work model.
- The ideal candidate will have expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab CI, Datadog, Jira, and Azure.
- This role involves designing and implementing scalable solutions that align with our companys goals and enhance our technological infrastructure.
- The position requires a proactive approach to problem-solving and a commitment to delivering high-quality results.
- Partner with application teams on their journey to Public Cloud.
- Key technical lead and liaison between application teams and enterprise cloud migration initiative.
- Identify end to end DevOps solutions, leverage best practices and patterns.
- Self-starter who can pick up new technologies/skills, be comfortable with ambiguity and drive initiatives forward.
- Roll up sleeves and get teams over tricky CI/CD challenges.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum 10 years of experience with developing and implementing applications and end-to-end solutions.
- At least 5 years of progressive experience with the concepts and tools behind the design and implementation of best-in-class CI/CD, application monitoring and resilience on Public Cloud.
Preferred Skills/Experience:
- Must have hands-on experience deploying and running applications on Public Cloud (Azure preferrable, AWS) from Development through Production.
- Very strong Interpersonal skills with excellent verbal and written communication.
- Proven track record with IaC, CI/CD/DevOps/DevSecOps, Test Automation, Supportability.
- Core toolsets include Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab CI/CD, Jira, Datadog.
- App Stack Exposure – .NET/Java/Spring, REST, Microservice, React, Docker/K8s.
- On-prem/Azure and/or AWS.
- Azure IaaS/PaaS expert experience. Define/create runtime environment, network, storage etc.
- Database experience – DML/DDL deployment for Microsoft SQL Server (must have), Cassandra (nice to have).
- End to end System Solutioning on Cloud for – Resilience, Security, Performance, Availability, Scalability.
- Financial Services domain knowledge is highly desirable.
Apply today or share profiles at mario.i@smartitframe.com