Infrastructure Specialist

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Your role and responsibilities

Role Profile

The ideal Senior Consultant - CIS candidate has senior level knowledge and experience in designing, migrating, and implementing complex hosting solutions and migrations on Cloud platforms primarily on Azure. This role will report to a Regional Director of Cloud Infrastructure. This position will work with Product Owners, Applications Owners, Network and Security teams to design and deliver the best solutions for large scale infrastructure cloud solutions. Candidates should possess proficiency in public and hybrid cloud models. Consulting skills and the ability to work with customers, other team members and delivery teams is critical to this role.

Responsibilities:

* Design and deploy highly available, scalable and secure cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure (AWS and GCP is a plus) using industry best practices leveraging the WAF and CAF frameworks.

* Implement infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques to migrate workloads into Azure.

* Design and develop automation to support continuous delivery and continuous integration process.

* Work closely with the Development and Operations teams to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support automated deployment of infrastructure.

* Understanding of Azure Database technologies (both IaaS and PaaS) and options to support the migration process. This will include and not limited to Azure database migration technologies and refactoring options.

* Analyze and resolve configuration issues in development, test, and production environments.

* Build effective monitoring, logging and auditing of production systems to ensure compliance with mandated compliance policies (e.g., HIPAA).

* Experience implementing secure (zero trust) infrastructure on Azure.

As of February 9, 2022, Neudesic has been acquired by IBM and is now being integrated into the IBM organization. As a result, your recruitment process will be managed by IBM, which will also be the hiring entity.

This role can be worked from anywhere in the US

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Must have ability to secure and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Key Technology Requirements:

• Cloud Infrastructure: Virtual Machines, Azure Database and storage technologies (Storage Accounts, SQL Server, CosmosDB), Virtual Networks, Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, Azure Automation, ARM Templates, Azure Load balancer, API Gateway and Azure AD.
• Cloud Management: Policy, RBAC roles, Cost Management, Monitor and Alerting, Site Recovery, Disaster Recovery
• On-premise infrastructure: Active Directory, DNS, VMWare, Hyper-V, firewalls, routing
• Identity and user management solutions provided by Azure or 3rd party.
• Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Team Server (VSTS), Jenkins, Github, Octopus Deploy
• Experience with Automation scripting including PowerShell and other configuration as code tools.
• Infrastructure as Code(Terraform, ARM, Bicep)
• Deployment automation languages and tools such as JSON Template, Terraform, Ansible
• Experience with Azure and 3rd party monitoring tools
• Experience with Windows and Linux-based operating system configuration, automation and management
• Azure WAF (Well Architected Framework) and CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework) knowledgebase

Additional Skills & Competencies:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure and networking roles
• Must be a self-starter who requires minimal supervision.
• Experienced in problem solving, and able to follow a methodical implementation process.
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, ability to handle diverse situations, multiple projects and rapidly changing priorities.
• Ability to communicate with clients at all levels.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Technology Plus:

• Microsoft Azure certified - specifically AZ300 and AZ301
• Hands-on Experience with Terraform
• Knowledge and/or experience of Microsoft Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lakes
• Knowledge of Microsoft Partner Funding programs
• Experience with AWS and GCP