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1872 Consulting

Senior Azure/Systems Engineer

1872 Consulting, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290


Senior Azure/Systems Engineer

Location:

Chicago, IL (WFH 2 days, onsite 3 days)

Summary

The role of the Senior Azure/Systems Engineer will be to design, build, implement and deliver scalable Microsoft Azure Cloud solutions, in addition to supporting the on-prem Windows servers. This role will be responsible for designing and optimizing our cloud infrastructure environment and building out automation using IaC techniques.

What you'll be doing

You will drive the modernization of infrastructure services within Azure Cloud by engineering Azure-cloud based infrastructure solutions leveraging automation and modern deployment methodologies.Build cloud foundational components encompassing network, security, identity, operations, and governance in the Azure cloud.Develop and document cloud best practices, guidelines, and cost management of cloud technologies.Operationalize solutions from proof-of-concept through production, using automation for repeatability, maintainability, and to enforce standards.Manage the resolution of major incidents and any escalated issues for the Azure and server environments.Partner with the security team to enable, execute and operate the security, resilience and monitoring of our hosting environment.Represent the hosting technologies in Change Advisory Board meetings, review and planning meetings and architectural review.Foster a practice of collaboration and continuous improvement within the team.Collaborate with internal and/or external resources, providing technical expertise for the hosting environment.Conduct performance monitoring, capacity planning, workload modeling and predictive analyses to identify and resolve potential issues (e.g., performance, security breaches).Set up the target environment from foundational blueprints (HLD/LLD designs & requirements).

Skills we're seeking

7+ total years of experience with Cloud/Systems Engineering experience in a Microsoft environment.Must have 3+ years of experience with Azure and 3+ years of on-prem systems engineering with Windows Server and VMWare or Hyper-V.Excellent knowledge in the platform of Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services and foundational components of compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, security, tenant/subscriptions and other foundational PaaS services.Scripting and automation experience, ideally with PowerShell or Azure ARM.

Nice to have experience

Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD.Experience with IaC tools, such as Terraform.Familiarity with authentication systems such as Okta, Azure Active Directory, Active Directory, SAML, WS-Fed, OAuth Kerberos, and LDAP.Experience with Cloud and/or Hybrid-Cloud Architecture.Microsoft Certified Azure Architect.

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