Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

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Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)
REMOTE
Long-term, multi-year contract

Role Description:
The Senior Cloud Engineer role will possess strong knowledge and experience leveraging Cloud platforms and technologies such as Azure and/or AWS. The Senior Cloud Engineer will also possess experience designing, developing, and implementing multi-hybrid cloud using automation tools and technologies. The Senior Cloud Engineer will be part of the Hybrid Cloud Services (HCS) team providing solutions for complex mission critical systems providing tiers 2 and 3 support. The candidate must have a solid understanding of Azure and/or AWS cloud services. The Senior Cloud Engineer role will also possess experience performing requirements gathering and analysis; will provide consultative solutions to customers; and solution well-architected frameworks in AWS or Azure.

Required skills/Level of Experience:

Position requires Bachelor's and 7 years experience with the following:
" Providing technical leadership and assume overall accountability for the successful management and implementation of customer projects.
" Experience implementing well-architected/best practices for availability, scalability, and DR; solutioning multi-cloud application environments.
" Experience developing automation and DevOps using cloud native and agnostic tools (Azure Bicep, ARM, Powershell, Bluor clients, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CLI, Lambda, Terraform, Ansible, Python, etc.).
" Experience with software defined networking for cloud native and marketplace tools (eg: Palo Altos, Fortinets, etc.).
" Experience with cloud integration with OEM APIs.

The Senior Cloud Engineer will work collaboratively with customers, application owners and HCS team members to ensure quality of service for customers. Candidate must be able to obtain a US Public Trust, Secret (or higher) clearance.
"Experience configuring and integrating Azure and AWS native monitoring to achieve observability.
"Experience performing advanced troubleshooting and root cause analysis to expedite incident resolution.
"Evaluating requests for hardware and software; research and recommend solutions that meet or exceed customer requirements.
"Experience with cloud configuration management, policy management and security compliance.

Position requires two of the following certifications within a CSP:

" AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional
" AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Associate
" AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty
" AWS Certified Security Specialist

OR

" Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Expert
" Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
" Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate
" Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate

Security clearance:

United States Must be able to obtain.

Nice to Have Skills:

" Experience with cloud native security tools and security compliance
" Experience leading technical teams of three or more individuals
" Experience with ServiceNow
" Experience with IT service management best practices
" Experience with API integration with ServiceNow Event Management

OTHER SKILL/REQUIREMENT:
Required skills:
Microsoft Excel x
Microsoft Word x
Excellent verbal and written communication skills x