Lead Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Job description

• Provides technical expertise, to include addressing and resolving complex technical issues.
• Demonstrable experience assessing application workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop case and Cloud adoption roadmap
• Expertise on data ingestion, data loading, Data Lake, bulk processing, transformation using Azure services and migrating on-premises services to various Azure environments.
• Good experience of a range services from the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform including Infrastructure and Security related services such as Azure AD, IaaS, Containers, Storage, Networking and Azure Security.
• Good experience of enterprise solution shaping and Microsoft Azure Cloud architecture development including excellent documentation skills.
• Good understanding of Azure and AWS cloud service offering covering Compute, Storage, Network, WebApp, Functions, Gateway, Clustering, Key Vault, AD.
• Design and Develop high performance, scalable and secure cloud native applications on Microsoft Azure along with Azure best practices/recommendations.
• Design, implement and improve possible automations for cloud environments using native or 3rd party tools like Terraform, Salt, Chef, puppet, Databricks, etc
• Creating business cases for transformation and modernization, including analysis of both total cost of ownership and potential cost and revenue impacts of the transformation
• Advise and engage with the customer executives on their Azure and AWS cloud strategy roadmap, improvements, alignment by bringing in industry best practice/trends and work on further improvements with required business case analysis and required presentations
• Providing Microsoft Azure architecture collaboration with other technical teams
• Documentation of solutions (eg architecture, configuration and setup).
• Working within a project management/agile delivery methodology in a leading role as part of a wider team.
• Provide effective knowledge transfer and upskilling to relevant customer personnel to ensure an appropriate level of future self-sufficiency.
• Assist in transition of projects to Enterprise Services teams.

Skills Required:

• Strong knowledge of Cloud security standards and principles including Identity and Access management in Azure.
• essential to have strong, in-depth and demonstrable hands-on experience with the following technologies:
• Microsoft Azure and its relevant build, deployment, automation, networking and security technologies in cloud and hybrid environments.
• Azure stack hub , Azure stack HCI/Hyper-V clusters.
• Microsoft Azure IaaS , Platform As A Service ( PaaS ) products such as Azure SQL, AppServices, Logic Apps, Functions and other Serverless services
• Understanding of Microsoft Identity and Access Management products such including Azure AD or AD B2C
• Microsoft Azure Operational and Monitoring tools, including Azure Monitor, App Insights and Log Analytics
• Microsoft Windows server, System Centr, Hyper-V and storage spaces
• Knowledge of PowerShell, Git, ARM templates and deployment automation.
• Hands-on experience on Azure and AWS Cloud native automation framework to perform automation along with experience on Python, Azure services like Databricks, Data factory, Azure functions, Streamsets etc
• Hands-on experience with IAC (Infrastructure as Code), Containers, Kubernetes (AKS), Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Linux Sys Admin (RHEL/Ubuntu/Alpine), Jenkins, building CI/CD pipelines in Azure Devops.
• Ability to define and design the technical architecture with best suited Azure components ensuring seamless end-end workflow from Data source to Power BI/Portal/Dashboards/UI.

Skills Good to Have:

• Experience in building big data solutions using Azure and AWS services like analysis services, DevOps / Databases like SQL server, CosmosDB, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB and web service integration
• Possession of either the Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions and Architecting Microsoft Azure certifications.