JOB TITLE: Azure Cloud Engineer L – II, L - III
JOB DESCRIPTION:
We are seeking a mid to senior-level Azure Cloud Engineer to deliver cloud engineering services to Rackspace’s Enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will have strong, hands-on technical skills, with the experience and consulting skills to understand, shape, and deliver against our customers’ requirements.
· Design and implement Azure cloud solutions that are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, auditable, and cost optimized.
· Build out new customer cloud solutions using cloud-native components.
· Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
· Write application/Infra deployment pipeline using Azure DevOps or other industry-standard deployment and configuration tools.
· Usage of cloud foundational architecture and components to build out automated cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting services frameworks.
· Work with developers to identify necessary Azure resources and automate their provisioning.
· Document automation processes.
· Create and document a disaster recovery plan.
· Strong communication skills along with customer-facing experience.
· Respond to customer support requests within response time SLAs.
· Troubleshoot performance degradation or loss of service as time-critical incidents.
· Ownership of issues, including collaboration with other teams and escalation.
· Participate in a shared on-call rotation.
· Support the success and development of others in the team.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
· Engineer with 4-12 years of experience in the Azure cloud along with writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and building application/Infra deployment pipelines.
· Experienced in on-prem/AWS/GCP to Azure migration using tooling like Azure migrate etc.
· Expert-level knowledge of Azure Products & Services, Scaling, Load Balancing, etc.
· Expert level knowledge of Azure DevOps, Pipelines, and CI/CD.
· Expert level knowledge of Terraform and scripting (Python/Shell/PowerShell).
· Working knowledge in containerization technologies like Kubernetes, AKS, etc.
· Working knowledge of Azure networking, like VPN gateways, VNets, etc.
· Working knowledge of Windows or Linux operating systems – experience with supporting and troubleshooting stability and performance issues.
· Working knowledge of automating the management and enforcement of policies using Azure Policies or similar.
· Good understanding of other DevOps tools like Ansible, Jenkins, etc.
· Good understanding of the design of native Cloud applications, Cloud application design patterns, and practices.
· Azure Admin, Azure DevOps, terraform certified candidates preferred.
