Senior Azure Cloud Engineer(16775)

Title: Senior Azure Cloud Engineer(16775)

Job code: 16775

Duration: 6 months

Location: Niles, IL

Work Mode: Hybrid Niles, IL (3 days/week)

Visa Prefered: /

Tax Term: W2

Description:

• Design, deploy, and manage Azure infrastructure components such as virtual networks, virtual machines, storage accounts, and other essential cloud services.
• Utilize Terraform to provision, maintain, and enhance cloud infrastructure, ensuring repeatability, version control, and consistency in the environment.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to support automated deployments and continuous integration, enhancing the organization's agile capabilities and software delivery processes.
• Ensure the security and compliance of Azure resources by adopting industry best practices, continuously monitoring for vulnerabilities, and implementing necessary security controls.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for Azure-related infrastructure and application-level issues, ensuring minimal downtime and efficient resolution.
• Design and implement Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions to protect data integrity and guarantee the availability of applications in case of failure.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, administrators, and developers, to ensure the seamless integration of Azure services into applications and services.
• Drive automation efforts using tools like Ansible to improve operational efficiency, reduce manual intervention, and streamline cloud management tasks.
• Act as a liaison between the Architecture and Security teams to ensure cloud resources and DevOps pipelines are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, and auditable.
• Represent the team in Change Management and Change Board activities.
• Maintain clear documentation on automation processes, environment diagrams, development standards, and team onboarding checklists to ensure team alignment and knowledge transfer.
• Support the team with additional cloud-related tasks, initiatives, and projects as needed.

Requirements:

• In-depth understanding of Azure services, including integration tools and solutions (Azure Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, etc.) for connecting and automating cloud services.
• Proven experience creating, managing, and scaling Azure resources using Terraform, ensuring automated, reproducible infrastructure deployment.
• Strong experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to facilitate continuous integration and deployment processes.
• 13+ years of hands-on experience working with Azure Cloud and related technologies.
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Solid understanding of Azure services, security, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with building, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with automation tools like Ansible and PowerShell for cloud infrastructure management.
• Bachelor s Degree

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Title: Senior Azure Cloud Engineer(16775)

Job code: 16775

Duration: 6 months

Location: Niles, IL

Work Mode: Hybrid Niles, IL (3 days/week)

Visa Prefered: /

Tax Term: W2

Description:

• Design, deploy, and manage Azure infrastructure components such as virtual networks, virtual machines, storage accounts, and other essential cloud services.
• Utilize Terraform to provision, maintain, and enhance cloud infrastructure, ensuring repeatability, version control, and consistency in the environment.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to support automated deployments and continuous integration, enhancing the organization's agile capabilities and software delivery processes.
• Ensure the security and compliance of Azure resources by adopting industry best practices, continuously monitoring for vulnerabilities, and implementing necessary security controls.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for Azure-related infrastructure and application-level issues, ensuring minimal downtime and efficient resolution.
• Design and implement Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery solutions to protect data integrity and guarantee the availability of applications in case of failure.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including business analysts, administrators, and developers, to ensure the seamless integration of Azure services into applications and services.
• Drive automation efforts using tools like Ansible to improve operational efficiency, reduce manual intervention, and streamline cloud management tasks.
• Act as a liaison between the Architecture and Security teams to ensure cloud resources and DevOps pipelines are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, and auditable.
• Represent the team in Change Management and Change Board activities.
• Maintain clear documentation on automation processes, environment diagrams, development standards, and team onboarding checklists to ensure team alignment and knowledge transfer.
• Support the team with additional cloud-related tasks, initiatives, and projects as needed.

Requirements:

• In-depth understanding of Azure services, including integration tools and solutions (Azure Logic Apps, Service Bus, Event Grid, etc.) for connecting and automating cloud services.
• Proven experience creating, managing, and scaling Azure resources using Terraform, ensuring automated, reproducible infrastructure deployment.
• Strong experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps to facilitate continuous integration and deployment processes.
• 13+ years of hands-on experience working with Azure Cloud and related technologies.
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Solid understanding of Azure services, security, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with building, managing, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with automation tools like Ansible and PowerShell for cloud infrastructure management.
• Bachelor s Degree

Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description. The position description has been reviewed for accuracy and Dice believes it to correctly reflect the job opportunity.