Sr Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provide Stable, Secure, and Efficient IT Operations for the Azure Cloud environment

• Support day to day operations on core infrastructure services: Windows Servers, Domain Controllers, Virtual Desktops, Active Directory (AD), Group Policies, DNS, SSL, SFTP, SMTP, Data Protection, File Server/Azure File Shares, Monitoring, Patching

• Support day to day operations on Azure PaaS & SaaS services

• Develop and manage IT cloud infrastructure including capacity planning, disaster recovery systems and cost management

• Conduct research on emerging technologies in support of infrastructure development efforts and recommend technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and infrastructure flexibility

• Develop, document, make recommendations, and communicate plans for investing in IT cloud infrastructure, including analysis of cost reduction opportunities

• Anticipate, mitigate, identify, respond to, and resolve problems affecting cloud systems performance, efficiency, and availability

• Contribute to an environment that emphasizes trust, open communication, creative thinking & cohesive team effort

• Author and update technical documentation, runbooks, ops guides, and presentations when needed

• Manage multiple cloud environments and support audit, compliance requests

• Work closely with application development and data engineer teams on day-to-day tasks along with project planning and implementation

• Provide 2nd and 3rd level support for infrastructure systems in a 7x24 environment

• Participate in on-call rotations

• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills:

• Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals and components: load balancers, SSL certificates, TCP/IP, firewalls

• High degree of knowledge in Identify and Access Management, Azure Active Directory, Roles and Policies

• High degree of knowledge in IT security, compliancy standards and frameworks: ITIL, SOC1, SOC2, NIST, ISO 27001

• Experience working directly with enterprise change control systems (Jira Service Management preferred)

• Experience with migrating infrastructure to Azure cloud

• Proficient troubleshooting skills to resolve issues & perform root cause analysis to ensure defects are engineered out of the environment

• Experience with Configuration Management tools

• Experience with scripting, automation: PowerShell, JSON, Python, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager (ARM)

• Excellent organization, time management, problem solving, & analytical skills

Qualifications:

Education

4-year degree or an equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, and experience

Experience

6+ years of experience as systems engineer working in Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) services such as Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Desktops, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, Azure Active Directory, Azure Automation, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics

6+ years of experience working with Microsoft technologies including Domain Controllers, AD, DNS, DFS Namespace, File Servers/Azure File Shares, SFTP Servers, SMTP, Windows Servers.

5+ years of experience as a systems engineer supporting Windows Server OS

5+ years of experience configuring monitoring and alerts for cloud resource availability

2+ years of experience working in environment having different Azure based PaaS & SaaS services

Certification

Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft Certified Systems Expert

IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v.3

WORKING CONDITIONS:

Office or Remote Setting

PPL does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, gender identity and/or expression, age, physical, mental, or sensory disability, sexual orientation, marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status, protected veteran status, citizenship status, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.