About the job
Our Exceptional Benefits Plan includes:
- Supportive & Friendly Culture
- Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage options
- Flexible Spending & Health Savings Accounts
- Wellness Programs
- Company paid Life Insurance
- 401k with Employer Contribution
- Company paid Short/Long Term Disability
- Generous Paid Time Off program + Holidays
- Career Growth Opportunities and Career Mapping
- Additional perks include Pet Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, Educational Assistance Program (Non-Union employees), Identity Theft Protection, Critical Illness Plans, Commuter Benefits and various employee discount offerings from our Vendors
Stratus is one of the nation’s largest brand implementation companies. We are made up of 1,100+ employees nationwide who roll up their sleeves, dive into the details and bring our clients’ brands to life! We deliver versatile solutions for some of the nation’s largest and most recognized brands. From exterior signage & interior branding to site refresh & remodel, from energy & lighting to repair & maintenance solutions, we deliver ideal solutions to meet all our client’s branding needs.
Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced and passionate Azure cloud 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 configure 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.
In addition to the skills required by a Systems Administrator in an in-house or hosted environment, and knowledge of skills required to provision, manage, monitor, and decommission cloud services, the Cloud Engineer role requires additional knowledge and experience around technologies and techniques for automating provision and management of infrastructure in a distributed environment through scripting.
- 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
- 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
- Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud-native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments
- 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
Qualifications
Formal Education & Certification
- University degree in computer science or software engineering and/or 5+ years equivalent work experience.
Knowledge And Experience
- 2+ years of Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration and optimization
- 2+ 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 in IaC development with Terraform, Azure CLI, Puppet, and Ansible
- Experience scripting with PowerShell
- Proficient with GIT to perform source code management
- Experience with Azure DevOps
- Experience with Jira and ServiceNow
- Competence in a wide range of IT skills including networking, systems administration, data protection, and information security
- Strong system administration (Linux/Unix or Windows) at the command-line level.
- Strong scripting skillset.
- Multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, databases, and networking.
- Understanding of cloud security best practices.
- Experience with templates and other configurable items to enable automation.
- Familiarity with deployment techniques (and tools) in a distributed environment.
- Basic monitoring techniques in a dynamic environment.
- Design of self-healing and fault-tolerant services.
- Understanding of stateless and loosely coupled distributed applications.
- Familiarity developing with RESTful API interfaces.
- Basic understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
- Familiarity with messaging and queuing services.
- Infrastructure as Code: design and security, configuration management, integration, deployment, performance monitoring and tuning, automation of infrastructure.
- Working knowledge of one or more high-level programming languages (C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, etc.).
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Personal Attributes
- 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
- Ability to exercise independent judgment and act on it.
- Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills.
- Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
- Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail.
- Highly self-motivated and directed.
- Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure.
- Strong customer service orientation.
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.