Sr. Azure Infrastructure Engineer - BravoTech

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System Engineer/Cloud Engineer

Manager wants a System Engineer that is seasoned that has done an on-prem migration to the Cloud.
He doesn’t want a DevOps Engineer.  Need to be a Systems Engineer/Infrastructure with Azure Cloud experience.

Skills: System Engineer, Active Directory, VMWare, Cisco UCS, Firewalls, VMWare, EMC, Windows Server, Linux, Azure CLI Scripts, Azure Cloud

Our Dallas based client is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer designs, develops, deploys, and supports Information Technology (IT) equipment, services, processes, and software within cloud infrastructure environments such as Microsoft Azure. 

This is an IT Enterprise production support position, and as such, off-hours critical systems/emergency support will be expected to support business continuity requirements.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage the design, deployment, configuration, monitoring, and maintenance of high availability enterprise solutions that implement industry standards using MS Azure and M365.
• Performs proactive system administration, monitoring, technical efficiency tuning, up-time, alert notifications, and automation tasks.
• Provisions Infrastructure as code using Azure CLI PowerShell ARM templates.
• Builds and configures new development tools to improve automation and code deployment, with a focus on Azure operations and application deployment/configuration.
• Owns the diagnosis and issue resolution process, including the determination and provision of workaround solutions or escalation where necessary.
• Configures, administers, and manages M365 services (Exchange online, Teams, SharePoint, etc.) per Microsoft best practices.
• Troubleshoots infrastructure/software application solutions as required to insure Enterprise systems stability.
• Defines and implements the configuration of Azure IAAS and PAAS services for high availability data redundancy, data loss prevention, site recovery and resilience per Microsoft best practices.
• Defines and implements Cloud security architecture to ensure data security at rest and in transit, application security, key management, identity management, authentication, and authorization with OIDC and OAuth2 infrastructure security utilizing Azure VNets, NSGs, UDR, etc.
• Administers Windows Active Directory, Windows servers, Linux server, group policy, etc.
• Helps develop, implement, and monitor management information systems’ policies and controls within the cloud tenant environments to ensure data accuracy, security, and legal and regulatory compliance.
• Installs new equipment, specifies and manages software upgrades and patches to email services, manage Active Directory, DNS, FTP, and web servers and related facilities including login servers, mail relays, directory and list servers, web servers and proxy servers within cloud and on-premises data centers as required.
• Helps to manage third-party and contracted resources, under the guidance of the Director of Infrastructure & Operations, to ensure services provided are done on budget, and on (or ahead of) schedule requirements.
• Proactively identifies and raises technical risks.
• Produces/updates documentation on system processes to meet compliancy/auditing regulations.
• Effectively communicates with all levels of the organization.
• Complies with all IT and Information Security policies and procedures; helps respond to audit requests as required.