Key Responsibilities:
- Guide, mentor, and manage a team of cloud engineers fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment
- Conduct regular team meetings for architecture/design reviews, code reviews, cross team collaboration opportunities, and training sessions to ensure continuous development and alignment with company goals
- Aide in designing and managing scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure and automation tooling for routine operation tasks
- Oversee the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of Azure resources
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of the Azure environment through proactive monitoring, optimization, and troubleshooting
- Manage cloud costs and optimize resource usage to achieve cost efficiency
- Work with solution architects and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls and meet cloud computing best practices
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and the adoption of new technologies to enhance the Azure cloud environment
- Stay up-to-date with the latest Azure features, tools, and best practices, and disseminate this knowledge to the team
- Investigate and monitor current-state cloud usage, solutions in use, risks, gaps, limitations and recommend solutions, optimizations and remediation
- Ensure cloud services and toolsets are deployed with best practices and documentation
Key Requirements and Technology Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure cross platform technology areas, with implementing and maintaining expertise
- 5+ years of experience building, deploying and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services
- Experience building an automated cloud infrastructure across Prod and Non-Prod environments
- Scripting and automation of builds, workflows, tasks and other integration aspects
- Linux and Microsoft Windows server administration
- Configuration management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolsets including (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and Chef