Sr. Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Hunatek•Washington, DC

4h•$160,000 - $190,000

About The Position

Implement, maintain, manage, troubleshoot, and optimize functional and secure On-premise and Azure cloud environments. Cloud engineer will be responsible for supporting all on-premise, hybrid, Azure, and AWS infrastructures. This is a hands-on operational position requiring technical knowledge and expertise within cloud services and virtualization.

Requirements

Active Top Secret Clearance
Must possess a bachelor’s degree in computer science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or similar technical discipline and 7+ years’ experience in system administration in a large enterprise environment.
Must have 5+ years system administration experience in Microsoft Azure cloud.
Excellent understanding of system and network architecture in the cloud and able to manage multiple resources in support of EA cloud efforts.
Demonstrate significant experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure and services, AWS networking, IAM roles, and scripting in Perl/Python/Shell.
In-depth understanding and knowledge of various cloud service models to include IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS and supporting deployment models, including Private, Public, and Hybrid cloud.
Must possess hands-on technology knowledge and recognized expertise in public and hybrid-cloud tools and technologies covering automated provisioning and configuration management.
Must have Professional Cloud Certificate for Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification or a minimum Azure Administration Associate certification.

Nice To Haves

Azure Government
Linux (RHEL/Ubuntu)
PowerShell
Ansible and Ansible Playbooks
YAML

Responsibilities

Provide subject matter expertise for Azure cloud services, including but not limited to AWS, and virtualization technology.
Performs IT Operations system administration tasks including installing operating system software, patches, and upgrades.
Directly responsible for infrastructure, automation and working closely with the engineering team to roll out infrastructure in agile processes and fosters DevOps culture.
Analyze systems performance to identify potential opportunities for improvement in virtualized environments, hardware infrastructure, backup, archive systems, data storage environment, and cloud environment systems and services.
Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve instance, software, network, and other cloud issues.
Work along-side IT security analysts and other IT staff to correctly setup and maintain cloud applications free of risks and vulnerabilities.
Work with third-party cloud vendors to obtain security assessments through software monitoring tools to reduce risk and vulnerabilities to the infrastructure.
Identify incidents for review and participates in related Root Cause Analyses for Critical and High Incidents.
Working knowledge of application code delivery pipelines and integrations into infrastructure automation mechanisms/pipelines.
Extensive experience automating delivery of on-premise infrastructure in a traditional VMware, Windows, Linux and SAN/NAS environment.