Job Description

Senior Azure Specialist

Fairfax, Virginia(Remote)

Phone+Skype

Long Term Contract

JD:

Responsibilities:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent relevant experience is required, plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree, plus 6 years of relevant experience.

Key Responsibilities:

Configure, and administer cloud computing technologies, infrastructure, and applications to
meet the organizations requirements.
Develop software automation and scripts to orchestrate cloud and virtualization technologies
with defined scope, schedule, and expectations.
Support and lead the evaluation of new service offerings from Cloud Service Providers to
determine potential usage by client.
Identifies, manages, and resolves cloud computing security risks and implements best
practices as applied within a cloud environment.
Monitor requests and key metrics for cloud resources, as well as the performance of systems
in the cloud and directs remediation.
Provide subject matter expert technical support to customers using Cloud Platform products,
solutions, and Application Programming Interface (APIs).
Troubleshoot issues and plans for future cloud capacity requirements Develops roadmap and
business case for capacity growth.
Lead and perform the installation and configuration of cloud management applications by
leading to large sized efforts.
Lead the Identification and documentation of product bugs and feature requests and works
with internal support teams, external providers, as well as customers to implement effective
solutions.
Mentor team members on analysis of summary data on cloud resource deployment and
participates in taking corrective actions.
Partner with IT architecture and other IT teams to design, deploy, manage, and operate of
scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems in the cloud by working directly with the
stakeholders.
Provide technical leadership and work direction to other employees.

Job Description

• Lean-Agile principles and practices (includes DevSecOps, Scurm, SAFe, and Kanban).
  Strong experience in Azure service offerings.
• Experience in virtualization technologies: Server, Storage, Networking.
• Experience in scripting languages, and software automation skills.
• Experience in computer programming languages: C, C Sharp, C++, Perl, PHP, and Python.
• Strong experience of administering systems in a virtualized Cloud environment based on
  VMware vRealize, vCloud Director, and NSX technologies.
• Experience in configuration management using Azure Resource Manager
• Experience in security, risk and compliance frameworks, disaster recovery, high availability
  architectures, hardware, operating systems, and networking connectivity.
• Strong experience in Infrastructure automation through scripting.
• Strong experience in designing and implementing enterprise services with the full range of
  cloud service providers/solutions, on Microsoft Azure.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent relevant experience is
required, plus a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; or
Master's degree, plus 6 years of relevant experience.

Proficiency level:
Advanced / Expert

Required Skills :

Demonstrates proficiency in:

• Storage administration (on-prem and/or Azure)
• Advanced Azure administration using RBAC (Role based Access Control), Policy, and automation
• Software Development practices and Lifecycle Management?
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and Git/GitLab)
• Scripting (PowerShell and/or Python)

Desired Skills :

Working knowledge in:

Application and System Architecture

Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning

Knowledge of Azure governance and security features

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