Cloud Engineer (Azure)

This is a client facing / delivery role, working on cloud operations in the delivery team. You will execute daily cloud operations as well as cloud implementations in technical customer engagements including basic operations and administration, specific implementation projects and/or pilots in Cloud.

The ideal candidate will have experience in delivery roles and success in implementation discussions, hands-on experience with good client handling skills and good team player within the team. The candidate should also be able to provide solutions and technical expertise to fellow team members and in client accounts.

Responsibilities

• Apply technical knowledge, hands-on and customer insights to operate and administrate a cloud infrastructure

• Ensure all configuration conforms to high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment, aligning to design documentation specifications

• Ability to codify or implement/deploy configurations with the principles of automation by default in new projects with proper documentations

• Ability to codify or maintain cloud systems in an automated fashion using tools like Ansible, ARM templates, Terraform, Powershell etc with proper documentation

• Collaborate with Cloud Solution Architects in providing technical expertise in cloud operations and administrations

• Participate in Cloud Migrations for VMs using tools like Azure Migrate with more than 50 VMs migration or Databases would be preferred

• Collaborate with team members to engage clients in operational meetings, discussions, process betterment and contribute to optimisations for the client’s environment

• Maintain technical skills, certifications and knowledge of market trends and competitive insights; collaborate and share with the technical community specifically in the cloud space

• Ability to manage issues with proper resolution/documentation and SLAs is required for this role

Requirements

• Professional Experience - 5+ years of success in operational/administration and deployment/migration projects in Cloud Environment

• Problem Solving. Ability to solve customer problems through cloud technologies

• Collaboration and Communication. Acknowledged helping to provide solutions to issues collaboratively, resolving conflicts and ensuring follow through with proper follow up and closure.

• Technical:

  • Strong technical experience with cloud infrastructures, migrations, and technology management preferred

  • AWS Solution Architect Associate Certification or any AWS speciality certification is required

  • Preferred Specialisation in Cloud eg DevOps Certified Specialty, Database Specialty etc

• Subject matter expertise in one or more of the following:

• Expertise of cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation Networking, OSS) would be advantageous

• Competitive Landscape. Knowledge of Containerisation technologies eg EKS/AKS/GKE/K8s/Openshift/Tanzu with CKA certification would be advantageous

What you might also need to have:

• Expertise of cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation Networking, OSS) would be advantageous

• Competitive Landscape. Knowledge of Containerisation technologies eg EKS/AKS/GKE/K8s/Openshift/Tanzu with CKA certification would be advantageous