DevOps Cloud Engineer - Hybrid - No C2C

Title: DevOps Cloud Engineer Location: Jacksonville, FL Hybrid Note: This is a contract to Hire on W2. THIS IS NOT OPEN TO C2C. Job Purpose This role designs, implements, and manages cloud-based systems for the company. Develops and implements cloud-applications, migrates existing on-premise applications to the cloud, and debugs cloud stacks. Responsibility Manages and delivers the engineering of high-quality, complex systems that are dynamically scalable, available, fault-tolerant, and reliable applications in the Cloud while implementing cost-control strategies (Azure PAAS and IAAS services). 20% Maintains and administers all aspects of the companys Citrix infrastructure - Xenapp/Xendesktop. Manages and performance-tune Citrix systems, networks, and applications to ensure high levels of availability. Leads capacity planning and the development of long-term strategy for Citrix systems. 20% Engages in detailed engineering to meet business requirements in implementing Identity and Access management for Azure Identity, SSO (single sign-on) and MFA (multi-factor authentication) capabilities. Manages, plans, designs, tests, implements, troubleshoots, recommends, and schedules improvements, upgrades and repairs to the Active Directory domains. Manages and supports Azure Active Directory in a hybrid environment. 20% Leads projects and initiatives and makes a significant contribution to the technical design and implementation of the companys systems either on-premise or in cloud platforms. Generates scripts and templates required for the automatic provisioning of resources. Debugs technical issues inside a complex stack involving virtualization, containers, microservices, etc. 20% Builds and Manages Azure DevOps pipelines for CI CD and Release Management workflows. Manages Azure DevOps repos and branch policies. 10% Documents architectural solutions, functional and design specifications, presentations, and other documents as needed to provide technical guidance to junior team members. 10% Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required Knowledge of emerging container management platforms like Kubernetes and Docker. Experience in Yaml, Python, PowerShell, Azure CLI Powershell. Windows, Linux, Rancher, VmWare, Hyper-V, VDI, Power BI, 365, Exchange, Azure, MS Intune, SCCM, WSUS, Azure DevOps, Active Directory, ADFS, Azure Connect, Veeam,Cisco UCS platform, Citrix VDI, XenApp, XenServer, Provisioning Services, Netscaler. Extensive experience with infrastructure and server theories, principles and concepts; application infrastructure and standards; networking fundamentals; Windows; Physical Server architecture; Virtualization Technologies and LAN/WAN/Firewall/VPN network technologies. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively communicate complex and detailed technical information. Ability to set priorities, plan and coordinate work activities and manage time and resources to deliver objectives within a busy workspace. Knowledge of current Industry trends. Experience with developing processes and standards. Ability to lead projects and contribute to technical design and implementation of company systems. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Preferred Cloud Certifications (Microsoft Azure preferred). Experience working with Microsoft Azure, Linux/UNIX, Docker and Kubernetes, Rancher and Terraform, Azure DevOps. Knowledge of web services, API and REST. Database experience, including knowledge of SQL. Knowledge and experience with Agile.