Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Senior Azure Cloud Engineer 68 Years Experience
Skill Requirements

. Strong leadership skills, including the ability to influence others, work independently, and exercise appropriate judgment in decision making.
. Proven ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, including business analysts, developers, data scientists, infrastructure engineers, security teams, and subject matter experts.
. Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with management, peers, and other departments within IT.
. Respect for change management, environmental integrity, and process workflow within a relatively new and rapidly maturing organization.
. Strong analytical and technical troubleshooting skills.
. Understanding of and experience with the five pillars of a well architected framework.
. Ability to quickly learn Client specific processes, topology, tools, and standards, often with limited documentation.
. Technical experience with operating system administration, including Linux and Windows.
. Experience with Azure based cloud services, including cloud networking, identity and access management, monitoring, logging, security, and platform operations.
. Hands on experience with OpenShift and Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
. Experience supporting or participating in migrations from on premises OpenShift to Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
. Experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift administration concepts, including projects/namespaces, RBAC, routes/ingress, services, deployments, operators, storage, image registries, secrets, config maps, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
. Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, and Azure Red Hat OpenShift.
. Experience with microservices architecture and cloud native application patterns.
. Experience with infrastructure as code and provisioning tools such as Terraform, ARM/Bicep templates, Ansible, or CloudFormation, with strong hands on experience using Terraform for Azure infrastructure automation, reusable module design, remote state management, environment specific configuration, version controlled changes, and CI/CD integration.
. Ability to troubleshoot, maintain, and improve Terraform based automation, including plan/apply workflows, state drift, module versioning, provider configuration, and controlled promotion of infrastructure changes across non production and production environments.
. Experience with software development lifecycle principles, DevOps practices, GitOps deployment models, automated build and deployment processes, and artifact management.
. Experience with CI/CD, deployment, and release automation tools, including CloudBees CI/Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Argo CD, or similar technologies.
. Knowledge of GitHub and GitHub Actions is preferred.
. Experience with Azure DevOps, including Azure Repos or Azure DevOps Services as a source control management and delivery tool.
. Experience with source control management tools such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, or Bitbucket.
. Experience with GitOps tools and operating models, including Argo CD.
. Experience with artifact and repository management tools such as Nexus Repository Manager.
. Experience with package, artifact, and container image promotion across lower and production environments.
. Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or JavaScript.
. Experience with security and code scanning tools such as Snyk.
. Familiarity with Veracode and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security is a plus.
. Experience integrating security scanning, code quality gates, and vulnerability management into CI/CD pipelines.
. Familiarity with cloud governance, platform standards, change management, access controls, segregation of duties, and secure deployment practices.
. Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across cloud infrastructure, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, application deployments, networking, identity, logging, and monitoring.
. Ability to develop and maintain clear technical documentation for platform standards, operational procedures, deployment patterns, and automated processes.