JOB TITLE: Azure Cloud Engineer L – II, L - III
JOB DESCRIPTION:
We are seeking a mid to senior-level Azure Cloud Engineer to deliver cloud engineering services to Rackspace's Enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will have strong, hands-on technical skills, with the experience and consulting skills to understand, shape, and deliver against our customers requirements.
- Design and implement Azure cloud solutions that are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, auditable, and cost optimized
- Build out new customer cloud solutions using cloud-native components
- Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
- Write application/Infra deployment pipeline using Azure DevOps or other industry-standard deployment and configuration tools
- Usage of cloud foundational architecture and components to build out automated cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting services frameworks
- Work with developers to identify necessary Azure resources and automate their provisioning.
- Document automation processes
- Create and document a disaster recovery plan
- Strong communication skills along with customer-facing experience
- Respond to customer support requests within response time SLAs
- Troubleshoot performance degradation or loss of service as time-critical incidents
- Ownership of issues, including collaboration with other teams and escalation
- Participate in a shared on-call rotation
- Support the success and development of others in the team
Skills & Experience
- Engineer with 4-12 years of experience in the Azure cloud along with writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and building application/Infra deployment pipelines
- Experienced in on-prem/AWS/GCP to Azure migration using tooling like Azure migrate etc
- Expert-level knowledge of Azure Products & Services, Scaling, Load Balancing, etc
- Expert level knowledge of Azure DevOps, Pipelines, and CI/CD
- Expert level knowledge of Terraform and scripting (Python/Shell/PowerShell)
- Working knowledge in containerization technologies like Kubernetes, AKS, etc
- Working knowledge of Azure networking, like VPN gateways, VNets, etc.
- Working knowledge of Windows or Linux operating systems – experience with supporting and troubleshooting stability and performance issues
- Working knowledge of automating the management and enforcement of policies using Azure Policies or similar
- Good understanding of other DevOps tools like Ansible, Jenkins, etc.
- Good understanding of the design of native Cloud applications, Cloud application design patterns, and practices
- Azure Admin, Azure DevOps, terraform certified candidates preferred.
