Our company Software International (SI) supplies technical talent to Fortune 100 & 500 companies and many other small/midsized organizations across Canada/US.
Role : Azure Cloud Engineer
Location : Mississauga
Client : Financial
Rate : Based on experience
Reporting to the Manager, Infrastructure Engineering, Our Client is seeking a high performing Azure Cloud Engineer at our Mississauga Head Office. This individual will help build out, maintain, and troubleshoot our rapidly expanding infrastructure and network. You will be part of a talented team of engineers, who are mainly focused on Infrastructure. This job consists of both Azure Infrastructure and Cloud Network management.
Responsibilities:
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Architect and design improvements or new solutions in Microsoft Azure and alternate cloud environment.
- Work with internal architecture, infrastructure, governance, and security teams to ensure that all security, governance and business continuity requirements and best practices are integrated and implemented.
- Manage and apply security best practices to the cloud environment.
- Research and maintain up-to-date knowledge of current technology trends and best practices. Regularly evaluate cloud applications, designs, and best practices.
- Work within a cross-functional team of Cloud Engineers, App Admins, DBAs, and DevOps teams to specify, design, develop, test, and implement cloud services and solutions.
- Identify repetitive tasks and build tools and/or processes for automation.
- Develop and maintain PowerShell and automation scripts to support the Azure environment.
- Provide guidance and knowledge to team members, and promote efficiency, productivity, innovations, and knowledge-sharing across multi-functional teams.
- Developing and maintaining documentation for multiple environments.
- Work closely with internal business partners to gather requirements, design and implement solutions, manage technical operations, and triage and resolve operational issues.
- Continuously improve the triage and escalation process for system availability.
- Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.
- Manage and coordinate support incidents with external vendors.
- Assist in providing estimates of effort, material costs, etc.
- Other duties as assigned.
- On-call support on a rotating schedule as well as onsite support during non-standard business hours.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination education and related experience.
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5 - 8 years of experience in IT Infrastructure Operations with a minimum of 2 years of experience in Azure.
- Experience administering in an Active Directory, Azure Active Directory and Azure AD connect.
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Basic experience with admin and support of Office 365 including Exchange Online and SharePoint Online.
- Good development/automation experience including Installation, deployment and update of enterprise systems.
- Scripting and coding skills – PowerShell, Azure CLI, Terraform, Python, Azure DevOps, Git, Azure Automation.
- Hands-on experience with VMs, virtual networking, IP addressing and subnetting, Application Gateways, Load balancers, Storage accounts, NSGs, Route Tables. Experience with Azure ExpressRoute is an asset.
- Azure Administration Certification is required.
- Ability to demonstrate solid analysis and troubleshooting skills.
- Good understanding of Agile/Lean principles such as Scrum, Kanban, MVP etc.
- Comprehensive understanding of key technological concepts such as IT architecture, Cloud technologies, applications, network infrastructure, and security is strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience to install, configure, test, and deploy enterprise and multi-cloud network infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience in implementing Information and Cyber Security in network infrastructure.
- Basic experience in network management including supporting and maintaining campus and DC equipment such as edge NGFW, Routers, WAN, LAN, VPN, Voice and Wi-Fi, core switches, SAN switches and top-of-rack switches.
- Strong problem-solving skills is required in this role.
- Due to the nature of the role; strong collaboration skills, communication, detail orientation are all critical for success in the role.
- Experience managing vendor-provided services including outsourcing arrangements.
- Experience working within a structured process methodology (i.e. ITIL).
- Strong systems aptitude demonstrated project management and planning skills; balanced strategic skills with tactical execution skills.
- Highly motivated, self-starter who is eager to grow within our organization.
