Cloud Engineer- Azure

About our Client:

• A tech-enabled risk, benefits, and integrated business solutions for claims management and loss adjusting acorss all industries.

As an Azure Cloud Engineer, the following will be required:

• Show an awareness and ability to use scripting, automation tools and software that are available and currently in use.
• Build, configure, administer and support infrastructure technologies and solutions. These technologies and solutions can include computing, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, software, commercial-off-the-shelf software. They can also include virtual and cloud computing such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Maintain the security, confidentiality and integrity of information systems through compliance with relevant legislation and regulations and company policy and company policy.
• Take ownership of problems and proactively resolve technical problems, ensuring that technical solutions continue to meet business requirements. Take full accountability for the actions taken and decisions made.
• Understand and identify problems, analysing and helping to identify the appropriate solution. Classify and prioritise problems, document their causes and implement remedies
• Create the specification and design of systems to meet defined business needs. Work with business and technology stakeholders to translate business problems into technical designs. Visualise the ideal user service and come up with design ideas and possible design approaches. Effectively explore different approaches to solving problems.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the specific technologies necessary to fulfil the responsibilities and tasks of the role. Apply the required breadth and depth of technical knowledge. Actively keep informed of industry developments to make cost-effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies.
• Support the service delivery function with delivering solutions as per specification and in line with project defined deadlines and costs
• Support infrastructure function by documenting all technical solutions where relevant and necessary
• Understanding and implementation of monitoring, alerting solutions across all infrastructure to ensure adequate proactive and reactive support can be provided.
• Be available to support out of hours project activities and on call rota.

To be considered a good cultural fit, you must be:

• An ambitious self-starter, hungry and driven to learn
• A very strong and efficient communicator and collaborator
• Work well under minimal supervision to complete projects and tasks on time
• Able to think on your own to develop quick and sound solutions to complex problems
• Strong desire to solve with automation and self-service

To be considered a good technical fit, you must have:

• Extensive experience of working with Azure Cloud
• Extensive experience of Microsoft server stack
• Experience with IaC/CloudOps
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code e.g., Terraform HCL, ARM templates
• PowerShell, Bash and YAML scripting experience
• Proven experience with CICD tools such as Azure DevOps pipelines, GitHub
• Knowledge of Azure Governance (Blueprints, Policies)
• Experience with Azure Backup & Recovery Services.
• Knowledge of Microsoft best practise for Azure IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) deployments
• In depth experience of Microsoft Azure in a hybrid environment and moving to a full Cloud platform
• Software Defined Networking (SDN) - Azure Vnet's, Azure Load balancing Primarily NSGs, vnet peering, private endpoints, express routes etc
• Experience with networking (Palo Alto firewalls, Meraki switches and WIFI, routing, WAFs and LBs, LAN, WAN, VLAN etc)