Azure Cloud Engineer

Description

Project Overview: This role enables engineering teams within the Merchandising Experience pillar to create, test, deploy, and monitor their products in Azure. Application development teams rely on this role to guide them in a consultative and collaborative way through their cloud journey. Candidates should be familiar with industry best-practices as it pertains to cloud infrastructure and security and understand how to clearly communicate that information to their customers. It is imperative that the candidate be available during business hours to address support questions as well fielding ad hoc questions from the organization.
Tech Stack:
• Role – More focused on creating infrastructure, not as much on application development.
• Azure – AKS, ADF, MS Entra Id, Cosmos, Azure sql MI, Azure SQL DB, Azure AI/ML, Databricks,
Networking, cloud shell
• GCP
• Terraform, Ansible
• GitHub actions

Responsibilities

• • 7+ years of relevant infrastructure or software engineering experience.
• • 5+ years of experience with deployment/automation/management tools such as Docker,
• Terraform,
• • In-depth knowledge of Azure services, including Azure Networking, Storage, Firewall, Compute,
• Function, Backup and Azure DevOps
• • K8s, Azure AKS, and Rancher.
• • 3+ years of experience working with, designing, and implementing Azure cloud solutions.
• • 2+ years of experience leading technical proof of concept projects.
• • Automating routine tasks using Ansible, Python, Terraform and Azure CLI for enhanced
• efficiency.
• • Must have experience working with Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure provisioning and configuration management, respectively.
• • Experience configuring and managing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as GitHub actions, GitLab, Jenkins, etc. for enterprise-level deployments.
• • Proficient in identifying, researching, and resolving technical problems by determining the true root cause.
• • Capable of performing a wide range of complex tasks and providing support for escalated trouble tickets.
• • Experience migrating or transforming legacy solutions to the cloud.
• • Scripting skills and working experience with Infrastructure as Code
• • A passion for keeping up to date with the latest cloud trends and technologies.
• • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• • Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• • Identify and mitigate risks associated with cloud-based solutions.
• • Efficiency to work independently and as part of a team.
• • Assist application teams in onboarding their applications into the enterprise cloud environment.
• • Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments through Azure GitHub actions.
• • Assist application teams in onboarding their applications into the enterprise cloud environment.
• • Design and implement cloud-based solutions that meet business needs.
• • Ensure that cloud-based solutions are secure and compliant with industry standards.
• • Proficiency in multi-cloud environments, especially in GCP, is highly desirable.
• • Strong familiarity and comfort working with version-control systems, such as Git.
• • Advanced experience in large scale cloud architecture, design, and integration with a focus on automation, networking, and NextGen Firewall
• • Provide off-hours support (24 x 7) as required.
• Azure Must haves:
• • 3+ years of experience designing and supporting Azure environments, including IaaS and PaaS.
• • Understanding of C4 Model. (https://c4model.com/)
• • Understanding and working experience with MS Entra ID.
• • Strong working experience using Terraform to deploy Azure Resources.
• • Strong working experience using GitHub.
• • Experience with Azure PaaS services including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Synapse, Databricks, azure functions, Azure SQL, Cosmos, etc.
• • Experience in designing and analyzing enterprise level Azure Architecture.
• • Experience with Monitoring tools such as Azure monitor, Datadog, Dynatrace, Grafana,
• Prometheus etc.
• • Ability to implement security measures for Azure-based applications and infrastructure.
• Non-cloud specific must haves
• • Experience and proficiency with Mac OS
• • Hands on Kubernetes experience
• • Best practice knowledge of software development lifecycle
• • Good communication skills
• • Experience working on an Agile SCRUM team
• • Understanding that during business hours, thorough communication and presence is fully
• required
• *Nice to haves:
• • Azure Certifications
• • Azure Bicep
• • Hands-on Azure DevOps
• • Linux