Azure Engineer -Jackson, MS (Remote)​/ 6 + Months Contract

Azure Engineer (Landing Zone) – SME Level

As part of its on-going modernization efforts, the Mississippi Department of Education is seeking an Azure Engineer to assist in designing and implementing Azure Landing Zone architecture. The successful candidate will have a thorough understanding of Landing zone design capabilities using multiple Azure subscriptions including but not limited to policy, billing, connectivity, identity, management and Dev Ops. They will have a deep understanding of azure services such as resource groups, vnets, azure key vault, availability sets, roles and policies, DNS, azure firewalls, express route, VPN, app gateway, privatelinks and recovery services.

This position will require qualified Azure Engineer to take the lead in the following tasks:

• Implementation of a landing zone architecture through Terra Form to manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security
• Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements
• Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging Terra Form to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments
• Deploying IaC utilizing Azure Dev Ops pipelines
• Manage security and access controls of cloud-based solutions
• Automate processes and infrastructure lifecycle management