Azure Cloud Engineer

Job Description

We are looking for an Azure Systems Administrator/Engineer. Candidates should have at least 70% match to the Azure skills listed below.

Location: Morristown, NJ (Tri-state candidates only) Duration: Fulltime Interview Process: Video Interview Citizenship: USC/GC Only

Azure Skills

- Administration: Managing subscriptions, resource groups, and RBAC

- Networking: VNETs, subnets, NSGs, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, Load Balancers, Application Gateways, Azure Firewall, Front Door

- Compute: Virtual Machines, VM Scale Sets, App Services, Containers (AKS/ACI)

- Storage: Blob, File, Queue, Disk, and Storage security

- Identity & Access: Azure AD, Conditional Access, MFA, Enterprise Apps (SSO), Privileged Identity Management (PIM)

- Monitoring & Management: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Sentinel, Automation

- Backup & Recovery: Recovery Services Vault, Azure Site Recovery (ASR)

- Other: Azure ARC, troubleshooting skills

Responsibilities

- Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance, and security

- Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure

- Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and governance to identify and implement improvements

- Migrate existing infrastructure services to cloud-based solutions

- Manage security and access controls for cloud-based solutions

- Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments

- Implement policy-driven data protection best practices to prevent data loss

- Support cloud adoption of applications being transformed and/or modernized

- Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards

- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve technical escalations

Required Skills & Experience

- 5+ years of Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration, and optimization - 5+ years of experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions

- Experience in the design and operation of medium to large-scale enterprise infrastructure, databases, and application systems

- Experience working within an Agile framework

- IaC development with Terraform, Azure CLI, Puppet, and Ansible

- Scripting experience with Perl, Python, and PowerShell

- Experience with Terraform Cloud and Azure DevOps

- Experience with Jira and ServiceNow

- Broad IT skills including networking, systems administration, data protection, information security, and CI/CD tooling

- Enthusiastic learner with the ability to teach and mentor teammates and cross-functional partners

- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) with strong attention to detail