Azure Engineer

Plano, TX

Hybrid 3 days on site

MUST WORK ON W2***

This role involves working within a true cloud infrastructure team. Candidates should have a strong infrastructure skills with a focus on Azure, and not be primarily Dev Ops-oriented. A deep understanding of Azure's network and infrastructure components, such as DNS, subnets, storage accounts, and the creation of private endpoints, is essential.

• Write public cloud infrastructure as code automation using tools such as Terraform.
• Design and develop public cloud landing zones automation to build core cloud foundational platform services.
• Develop cloud services provisioning automation with integrated capabilities of IAM, network, security policies as code, and observability.
• Implement built-in resiliency, observability, and enable Fin Ops as part of infrastructure automation for IaaS and PaaS services.
• Develop and maintain cloud services CI/CD pipelines to build the cloud platform, virtual machine images, and containers.
• Collaborate with technical product management and operations to deliver the engineering roadmap in an Agile model.
• Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure application patterns into cloud platforms.
• Perform research and gather relevant information to define stakeholders' business problems.
• Translate business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment.
• Assist technical analysts and infrastructure engineers in ensuring technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.
• Promote an inclusive and healthy working environment and help resolve organizational impediments and blockers.

Design and develop public cloud landing zones automation to build core cloud foundational platform services

Develop cloud services provisioning automation with integrated capabilities of IAM, network, security policies as code, and observability

Implement built-in resiliency, observability, and enable Fin Ops as a part of infrastructure automation to enable cloud IaaS and PaaS services

Develop and maintain cloud services catalog

Develop CI/CD pipelines to build the cloud platform, virtual machine images and containers

Collaborate with technical product management and operations, to deliver the engineering roadmap in Agile model

Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure app patterns into Cloud platforms

Perform research and gather relevant information to define stakeholders' business problem(s).

Assist in translating business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and playbooks for deployment in compliance with architecture standards and policies

Assist technical Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers by ensuring that technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.

Promote an inclusive and healthy working environment and help to resolve organizational impediments/blockers

• Extensive Azure experience with a strong understanding of core infrastructure and network components.
• Proficiency in Terraform, with the ability to distinguish between Terraform and Terraform Enterprise.
• Expertise in creating private endpoints in Azure and understanding their connectivity to on-premises systems.
• Knowledge of native Azure security tools such as Sentinel.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure as code automation.
• Experience with cloud services provisioning automation.
• Experience in developing cloud CI/CD pipelines.

Expert Level

This is a Contract position based out of Plano, TX.

The pay range for this position is $70.00 - $70.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms.

If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health…