Sr Azure Cloud Engineer

Interviews: 1st round interviews will be virtual via MS Teams. Cameras must be on. There is a potential 2nd round interviews may be held in-person. Candidates must be available for an in-person interview.

Core Competencies
 Design and deliver secure cloud solutions on Azure.
 Strong understanding of Linux OS.
 Chaos engineering experience
 Strong understanding of virtual networks and general network management functions.
 Solid knowledge of concepts of designing and developing dynamic cloud solutions.
 Solid knowledge of concepts and moving parts involved in continuous integration and delivery.
 Expert guidance to development teams regarding infrastructure.
 Interpret and provide solutions on complex technologies/architectures.
 Cloud Formation / automation / Ansible / PowerShell / DSC / Comparable Linux scripting.
 Experience equivalent to site reliability engineering, DevOps, and/or DevSecOps
Core Tasks
 Provide strategic and architectural support representing Design Services and the State of
Michigan Cloud Strategy as a Subject Matter Expert.
 Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational
stakeholders.
 Build and maintain relationships across organizational teams.
 Consult with vendor product specialists/sales, independent research organizations, on-site
support engineers and fellow architects and administrators on best-fit technologies to ensure
compliance to department policies & standards and technology roadmap.
 Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture team for technology validation or suggestions for
alternative solutions. If necessary, initiate Solution Assessments, Infrastructure Service.
 Requests, and any applicable required documentation to implement new technology.
 Advocate the use of emerging cyber security best practices, technologies, developing standards
and procedures, promoting the usage of automated tools, developing strategies, and aligning
practices with enterprise strategic initiatives.
 Lead the development of technical artifacts including Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM),
Detailed Technical Design, Security Architecture Plan, Services Description Document, etc.
 Produce architectural framework documents (i.e., white papers, guidance documents, best
practices, technical reports, etc.).
 Project contributor representing architecture and participates in project plan development.
 Leverage broad-based understanding of technology areas and end-to-end knowledge of current
installations to craft architectural solutions or standards that can be applied across the
enterprise.
 Define and build hypothesis around steady state behavior.
 Run experiments around real world events to define potential impact or estimate frequency.
 Build automation into systems to drive both orchestration and analysis.
 Provide support and subject matter expertise with respect to adherence to best practice
security framework controls and other industry-based regulatory compliance requirements (e.g.,
NIST 800-37, 800-53, 800-171, 800-204, 800-207, CIS, PCI, IRS-Pub 1075, CJIS, and related).
 Assist with cloud infrastructure design and develop detailed architecture models for the client to
host test, development, and production environments.
 Communicate complex technical concepts to individuals of various technical ability.
 Design and develop cloud cost management solutions
 Provide performance analysis & troubleshooting
 Design and test large-scale workload and data migrations
 Provide direct support to technical and non-technical entities to define requirements and deliver
solutions to meet organizational needs including new environment deployment, upgrades,
performance tuning, testing and disaster recovery
 Integrate cloud services with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, Dell, EMC, HP, Nutanix,
Cohesity, Pure Storage, VMware, Cisco, and Rubrick.