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 8-15 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.