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: