Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Position Title: Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Location: Remote, USA Let's create our future together at The AES Group! About The AES Group: The AES Group is a premier technology consulting company that has been bringing businesses and talent together for over 20 years to deliver the most innovative technology solutions that create the most positive impact on society. AES has helped over 40 business enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, engage their customers, empower their employees, and transform their business operations with the power of cloud, data, AI, and other emerging technologies. About the Role: As part of the Cloud Services team, your core role will be leading the development and operations of our core cloud infrastructure. This includes all aspects of cloud services within our hybrid environment (private, Azure, AWS). The role will serve as the main operations as well as the subject matter expert for both public and private IAAS/PAAS services. Your mission is to partner with cloud providers, architects, and other infrastructure engineers in developing best practices and reference architectures to ensure resiliency and agility at defined SLA levels. Key Responsibilities:

• Developing shared services in python, Azure runbooks, terraform templates for application teams
• Building and managing shared Kubernetes on prem and public cloud Azure, AWS, Google.
• Express Route monitoring and efficient management
• R&D of current and emerging cloud technologies
• Evaluation and POC's for core infrastructure and application team's needs
• Design and Evangelism of patterns and reference architectures
• Vendor management and engagement within the cloud services domain
• Provides system analysis and recommended solutions for environment performance needs
• Plan, implement and support core infrastructure with an overall objective to improve the scalability, reliability, performance, and availability of the cloud infrastructure.
• Administrates the cloud enrollment and subscription process
• Monitors and escalates engineering issues to architecture team when required
• Ensures system performance, uptime and support levels meet or exceed SLAs
• Assists project teams with capacity planning, cloud service offerings, and deployment
• Work closely with architects and engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environment that effectively reflect our client's business needs, security, and SLA requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in information systems or a related field
• Must have 8+ years over overall IT infrastructure and delivery experience
• Must have 3+ years of experience building highly available, scalable cloud based platform and infrastructure for cloud native systems.
• Must have experience in Networking, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform and PowerShell
• Must have experience with Build Tools, CI/CD, DevOps and Agile principals
• Deep expertise in Public Cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) and internal hosting infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, etc.)
• Candidate must have strong technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing architectural concepts with management, architects, developers and systems & applications engineering teams.
• Experience with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies such as Scrum.

Preferred Skills:

• Configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible etc.
• Federated Security, Identity, SAML, Single Sign On, IAM etc.
• Networking and Load Balancers, Firewalls, VPCs, VPNs, DNS OSI Layers etc.
• Infrastructure and Application logging and monitoring technologies (New Relic, Splunk, etc.)

What we offer:

• Competitive pay with a focus on your performance and outcomes
• Professional growth opportunities that enable you to connect and collaborate with industry leaders and drive business value for some of the world's most innovative and forward-thinking companies
• Open and collaborative environment where your contributions help shape The AES Group into something that works for you, not just a company you happen to work for

Let your future start with The AES Group and join our mission to create the most positive impact on society with the power of technology. Apply now