Role: Senior Azure Engineer
Salary: Up to £69,000
Location: Remote Working - potential candidates have to be UK based
Essential Skilset Required:
- Strong experience managing the implementation of large complex cloud and hybrid enterprise solutions, including configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Azure-based production systems using the Azure portal, Cloud Shell, Azure PowerShell, CLI, and ARM templates.
- Participation in disaster recovery / business continuity design, testing, and invocation.
- A proven record of successful migration from traditional on-premise IT infrastructure to Azure delivering cost savings and other key improvements.
- Ability to analyse and translate user requirements into technical solutions.
- Significant experience using infrastructure as a code tools and instilling a culture of automation including creating and scaling virtual machines.
- Creating and reviewing High Level Designs (HLD's) and Low-Level Designs (LLD's).
- Mentoring colleagues on technical and nontechnical cloud concepts
- Experience with end-to-end migration projects (with Azure preffered)
- Deep knowledge of managing network traffic, subscriptions, accounts, users, groups, and billing within Azure.
- Through knowledge of the Azure platform - IaaS / PaaS / SaaS - and able to review existing Azure environments and align to best practice.
- Knowledge of Azure capabilities and how to map these to business requirements.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft identity management - Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Azure AD Connect. Knowledge of Azure cost management design principles, monitoring, and optimisation.
- Excellent PowerShell scripting skills for monitoring and tasks automation.
- Good understanding of CI/CD using technologies, such as Ansible, Jenkins, Travis, Octopus, and Terraform.
- Deep understanding of Azure Services such as App Service, API Management, Event Hub, Service Bus, Azure Spring Cloud, Key Vault, and Azure Monitor.
- Good understanding of load balancers, DNS, virtual networks, and firewalls in Azure environments.
- One or more relevant Microsoft Azure certifications.
