Azure Cloud Engineer

Mightyworks       |    Location:CA       |    Country:United States Of America

<p>We are dedicated to working with technical professionals like you who pride themselves on staying up to date with the latest technologies. Our clients are comprised of talented, creative, and passionate individuals that are ready to break barriers in the technology vertical and grow their skills.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Our client is searching for an&nbsp;<strong>Azure Cloud Engineer</strong>&nbsp;that can be&nbsp;<strong>remote</strong>&nbsp;with occasional travel into their&nbsp;<strong>Los Angeles&nbsp;</strong>office. This is a&nbsp;<strong>Direct Hire&nbsp;</strong>opportunity with great growth potential and benefits.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Automate operational tasks such as software configuration, server scaling and deployments, and database setups in multiple cloud environments with the use of modern application and configuration management tools (e.g. Jenkins, Chef, Puppet) and Azure tools (e.g. Azure AD)</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Design, build and deliver full stack cloud solutions, hosted services, and underlying software infrastructure</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Manage and run Azure infrastructure (IaS), application servers, web servers, databases, batch jobs, file transfers, and monitoring tools.</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Design and implementation of continuous integration, delivery, and deployment tools.&nbsp;</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Familiar with container technologies for environments leveraging automated image builds, micro-service deployments, or migration of traditional applications to container technologies.</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Design and implement provisioning services for a variety of virtualization and cloud platforms.</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Engage with product and DevOps teams to provide expert advice on migrating existing products and building new products in a hybrid cloud environment and usage of supplied services and environments</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Qualifications:</strong></p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science or related field</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5+ years of professional experience in Information Technology</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;5+ years of experience working with cloud computing systems, preferably Azure.</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and DevOps, CI/CD pipelines.</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Proven experience in scripting and automation (Bash, Python, Ruby, Perl PowerShell, etc.)</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Strong background in automated systems provisioning for bare metal, virtualization, and public cloud offerings. (Kickstart/PXE, Develop standard VM images for ESXi, Openstack, AWS, etc.)</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Strong Background in architecture and support of CI/CD tools. (Jenkins, CircleCI, Bamboo, TeamCity, Gitlab CI, Travis, etc.)</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Experienced with Infrastructure provisioning tools such as Docker, Chef, Puppet, Ansible or CloudFormation.</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Experience designing and deploying centralized logging or monitoring solutions (ELK Stack preferred) (Bitbucket, GIT, Subversion, Sonatype Nexus, Docker Registry, etc.).</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Proficiency building Linux and Windows systems in the cloud</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Experience in analyzing and resolving performance, scalability, and reliability issues</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Experience developing code in at least one high-level programming language (preferred) (<strong>Python</strong>)</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Desired Skills:</strong></p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Azure skills: App Gateways, ASE, ASP, AKS, Private Endpoints, Function Apps, Azure Networking.</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Proficient with monitoring and logging tools such as DataDog, Nagios, Zabbix, SumoLogic, Splunk and Keynote.</p> <p>&middot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbs