Azure Cloud Engineer - The Fountain Group
Remote, NC
About the Job
PAY: $80-90/hour W2. Our company offers our consultants a suite of benefits after a qualification period including health, vision, dental, life and disability insurance.
Fully remote role, candidates must be willing to work EST hours
W2 candidates only, C2C not possible for this role.
Description
- Our client is seeking an experienced and passionate azure cloud engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for building scalable solutions in the Azure Platforms for our Data & Analytics Platform.
- You may be expected to lead a team of junior engineers towards successful delivery of engineering solutions.
- The ideal candidate will bring a blend of technical skills and leadership ability, with the communication and teamwork skills to collaborate with other members of the IT team.
- Note that this is not a traditional Data Engineering job. We build platforms and solutions that enable Data Engineers & Scientists accomplish business goals.
- Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security.
- Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure
- Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements.
- Engage in conducting Proof of Concepts of various vendor solutions and present final recommendations.
- Migrate existing infrastructure services to cloud-based solutions.
- Manage security and access controls of cloud-based solutions.
- Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments.
- Develop and implement policy driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss.
- Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed and/or modernized.
- Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to address and resolve technical escalations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field
- 6+ years of experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions
- 4+ years of Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration, and optimization.
- Experience in the design and operation of medium to large scale enterprise infrastructure, databases, and application systems
- Experience working within an Agile framework.
- Experience in IaC development with Terraform, Azure CLI, Puppet, and Ansible
- Experience scripting with Python and Azure PowerShell.
- Experience with Windows, Linux VMs, networking, routing & firewalls.
- Experience with Azure services such as ADF, Logic Apps, AKS, ADLS, etc..
- Proficient with GIT, ADO to perform source code management.
- Experience with Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps
- Experience with Jira and ServiceNow
- Competence in a wide range of IT skills including networking, systems administration, data protection, information security and CI/CD tooling.
- Enthusiastic learner with the ability to teach and mentor teammates and cross functional partners.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a keen attention to detail
Who We Are:
The Fountain Group is a nationwide staffing firm with over 80 Fortune 100-500 clients. Since 2001, TFG has maintained a consistent standard of excellence, and our work is broadly recognized every year through numerous industry performance awards. Our success is a team effort.
Browse our website below for additional information on our company.
The Fountain Group
4505 Woodland Corporate Blvd, Tampa, FL 33614
“We work in Life Sciences, Clinical, Engineering, IT, and more. Above all, we specialize in people.”