Cloud Engineer

Akkodis is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer remote in the United States. Please apply if you are interested!

Job Description:

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Azure cloud systems engineer to join our company. In this role, you will be responsible for assessing our IT infrastructure to help plan and deploy our ongoing cloud migration. You will also oversee the migration process and design, maintain, and monitor the new system, as well as configuring hybrid connectivity between on-site systems and the cloud environment. The ideal candidate will bring a blend of technical skills and leadership ability, with the communication and teamwork skills to collaborate with other members of the IT team while also managing on premise infrastructure. This role will be responsible for the migration to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).

Critical Job Functions:

• Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security.
• Implement and manage Azure Virtual Desktop environment.
• Design and implement highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure
• Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements.
• Migrate existing infrastructure services to cloud-based solutions.
• Manage security and access controls of cloud-based solutions.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments.
• Work with Azure DevOps building CI/CD pipelines deploying product updates and identifying production issues.
• Develop and implement policy driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss.
• Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed and/or modernized.
• Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to address and resolve technical escalations.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field
• 3+ years of Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration, and optimization.
• 4+ years of experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions
• 5+ years of IT Experience preferred.
• Experience with Azure AVD Implementations preferred.
• Experience in the design and operation of medium to large scale enterprise infrastructure, databases, and application systems
• Experience working within an Agile framework.
• Experience scripting with Perl, Python and PowerShell
• Proficient with GIT to perform source code management.
• Experience with Azure DevOps
• Competence in a wide range of IT skills including networking, systems administration, data protection, information security and CI/CD tooling and YAML.
• Enthusiastic learner with the ability to teach and mentor teammates and cross functional partners.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a keen attention to detail.

Compensation:

• $100,000 to $110,000 per year.

Benefits:

• PTO
• Paid Holidays
• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• 401k