Required Skills
What are the top must-have technologies/required experience for the position? 1. Azure native 2. Azure Cloud 3. 4. Nice to have’s: Fresh Services (cherry on top) New Relic Configuring database
Additional Skills
Job Description
Title: Azure Cloud Operations Engineer
Position: Contract to Hire
Location: Remote
W2 Contract
Job responsibilities:
- Perform deployment, configuration, monitoring and maintenance of high availability enterprise solutions that implement industry standards using MS Azure.
- Perform proactive system administration, monitoring, technical efficiency tuning, up-time, alert notifications, and automation tasks.
- Building and setting up new development tools to improve automation and code deployment, with a focus on Azure operations and application deployment/configuration.
- Administration of Azure SQL Database services.
- Ownership in the diagnosis and issue resolution process, including the determination and provision of workaround solutions or escalation where necessary.
- Troubleshooting of infrastructure/software application solutions using both Azure Web Services, Monitor and Application Insights.
- Effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.
- Comply with all IT and Information Security policies and procedures; help respond to audit requests.
- Manage domains and Active Directory using Azure AD.
Specific Skills:
- 5+ years experience in enterprise technical systems administration and implementation with similar duties.
- 4+ years experience in enterprise Azure cloud
- Excellent communication skills – written and oral and detail oriented.
- Demonstrable Azure platform and portal, Windows OS, Azure SQL
- Strong operational background in cloud environments.
· Configured database environments – Plus
- Proficiency in backup management, high availability configuration, and security patch management.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Azure cloud native and New Relic.
- Experience with SQL Availability Groups is highly desirable.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills – particularly in an Azure environment involving the deployment and runtime aspect of application servers and databases (SQL*Server), utilizing tools such as Azure Application Insights, Monitor,
- Experience/awareness of automated DevOps activities, concepts, and toolsets.
- Good database skills including the use of Azure SQL and associated database management tools
- Good technical networking skills, Layer 3 and above, including subnetting, addressing and VPN.
- Ability to work in a fast paced, production environment, both in teams and in isolation with a minimum of supervision in 24x7x365 type team structures.
