Senior Cloud Engineer
Qodeworld · Florida, Florida, United States · hybrid
Client: Wealth Management
Position: Senior Cloud Engineer
Pay: $140K - $160K with 10%-20% Bonus
Locations: - First 90 days on site with 75 days a year afterwards or about 1 day a week WFH. The locations are only Tampa, FL - Camas, WA or Plano, TX
Work Authorization: ONLY USC or GC Permanent Residence - NO OTHER VISA WILL BE CONSIDERED.
Scope: The Azure Cloud Engineer will maintain the operational Azure cloud environment, perform infrastructure deployments and ensure the production environment is operating securely and efficiently using automation tools.
Certification: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or Azure Solutions Architect Expert cloud certification or equivalent certification
Experience
- 10+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure cross platform technology areas, with implementing and maintaining expertise of Azure/AWS cloud services.
- 5+ years of experience building, deploying and managing IaaS and PaaS services on Microsoft Azure/AWS platform.
- 4+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including building reusable modules, managing state, and promoting infrastructure changes through automated CI/CD pipelines.
- 2 years of hands-on experience on Kubernetes and containerized workloads
- Knowledge on AI platforms such as Microsoft Azure AI or similar cloud-based AI services
- Hands-on experience implementing Cloud security and governance controls, including Cloud Platform Policy, Defender for Cloud, secure landing zones, identity governance, secret management and compliance enforcement.
- Strong working networking knowledge (DNS, routing, firewalls, and private access)
- Scripting and automation of builds, workflows, tasks and other integration aspects
- Linux and Microsoft Windows server administration
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
Responsibilities:
- Design and manage scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure and automation tooling for routine operation tasks
- Deploy enterprise scaled cloud resources that can be used across technology organizations using code
- Develop, implement and maintain scalable, AI infrastructure on Cloud Platform
- Implement and suggest strategies in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, develop tooling and associated processes for applying automated, faster, efficient, and consistent error-free deployments
- Use configuration management and automated deployment tools to provide cloud-based solutions and services ensuring best practices
- Work with solution architects, tech leads and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls and meet cloud computing best practices
- Provide international and 24/7 support at on-call duties and working a flexible off-hours schedule for planned and unplanned maintenance