PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Delivery of Cloud infrastructure strategies aligned with business objectives with a focus on Cloud migrations

Provide leadership in infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques including mass application movements into the cloud including:

Design, implementation and support of infrastructure as code

Research new cloud technologies and prototype solutions that can be leveraged to decrease costs and increase performance

Assess and compare cloud native PaaS with cloud-enabled traditional infrastructure

Mentor existing staff on cloud computing best practices and technology to drive cloud adoption

Design of cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure using industry best practices

Provide code reviews of team members work.

Perform Quality Assurance (i.e. Testing) on other team members development activities.

Participate in agile activities (daily standups, backlog refinement, iteration planning, retrospectives, etc.)

Contribute to team’s backlog by creating stories and defects as they arise

Take ownership of assigned tasking

Participate in on call rotation (approx. once every 6 weeks)

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

4 year degree in Computer Science.

5+ years of software development experience building enterprise applications, solution design and technical architecture experience.

3+ years experience in Azure based cloud computing based services architecture.

2+ years Programming experience (Java, C#, etc.)

Strong understanding across cloud and infrastructure components (server, storage, data, and applications) to deliver end to end cloud infrastructure architectures and designs

Experience automating infrastructure in a cloud environment using Terraform and Ansible

Experience with Windows and Linux-based operating system configuration, automation and management

Shell scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash, etc.)

Proficiency with patch orchestration or vulnerability remediation

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to learn new technologies quickly and efficiently

Excellent technical analysis and problem solving skills

PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Container technologies such as Docker

Build automation tools such as Packer

Building continuous integration and delivery pipelines with tools like Jenkins or Team City.

Designing outage less systems using practices such as Blue / Green or Rolling Deployments

Experience in a managed Kubernetes implementation (KubeSpray, EKS, KOPS)

Experience with monitoring and analytical tools (Splunk, New Relic)

Certificate Management (client certificates, server certificates, certificate authorities, etc.)

Familiarity with cloud based disaster recovery and HA system development

Infrastructure experience (firewalls, load balancer, AD, DNS, etc.)

Networking experience

Agile exposure

Capable of building informative and visually appealing Grafana Dashboard

Proficient in using GitHub for version control, collaboration, and project management and GitHub Actions for CI/CD.

DevSecOps (Cloudvisory, Tigera, etc.)

DNS management

Continuous infrastructure testing

GIT based Source Control Systems