Azure Engineer Remote, Contract

Qualification: Bachelor's in computer science

Responsibilities:

• Manage and monitor the whole Infrastructure estate.
• Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security.
• Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure.
• Analyse 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.
• 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 modernised.
• Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards.
• Participate in an out-of-work to monitor infrastructure issues and resolve technical escalations.

Skills:

• 5+ years of Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration and optimization.
• 3+ years of experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions.
• 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.
• Experience with Cloud and Azure.
• Competence in a wide range of IT skills including networking, systems administration, data protection, information security and CI/CD tooling.
• Enthusiastic learner with the ability to teach and mentor teammates and cross functional partners.

Experience:

4 + years as Azure Engineer

Qualification(s):

Any graduate / Bachelor's degree in Computer Science