Lead Azure Cloud Engineer

Zenzero
Manchester
11 months ago
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Make sure to read the full description below, and please apply immediately if you are confident you meet all the requirements.As a Lead Azure Cloud Engineer you will play a pivotal role in our Data & Development Services capability, working closely with our data and software engineers to create robust, secure, scalable solutions. Leveraging your technical skills across the Azure platform, you will design, build, and optimise solutions for our customers, owning our approach to implementing networking, CI/CD, and security functionality.Key Responsibilities:Designing and implementing our customers’ Azure infrastructure, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security.Ensuring cloud infrastructure meets performance, security, and other non-functional requirements.Migrating clients’ existing on-premises infrastructure services to Azure.Building out our internal Azure sandbox tenant to enable proofs of concept and hosting of our industry accelerators and demonstrators.Providing Azure technical expertise and guidance to our data engineers and 365 engineers.Staying abreast of industry trends, best practice, and new features within Azure and the wider platform engineering discipline to keep Zenzero’s offering up-to-date.Cloud Engineering LeadTypical Cloud Engineering tasks:Instantiating Azure services, with a focus on data (e.g. Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL, Azure Databricks, Azure Machine Learning)Designing network architecture for client’s Azure tenantsConfiguring and administrating Service Principals, users, and groupsCreating VNets and Private EndpointsSetting up performance monitoring and trouble-shooting issuesCreating subscriptions with appropriate cost-control measures in placeDesigning and building CI/CD pipelines and version controlBuilding and maintaining our internal tooling and processesWe do not expect you to be an expert in all areas and we understand that experiences vary based on the background and years of experienceBelow we list some of the skills we are looking for.An inquisitive approach to technology and problem solvingExpertise in cloud infrastructure and networkingSound knowledge of design principles and an interest in developing robust solutionsExperience in working across a range of tools and services across the Azure stackStrong interpersonal skills and able to develop good working relationships with internal and customer stakeholdersComfortable with a degree of ambiguity in customer requirements and the ability to make decisions based on limited informationExcellent written and verbal communication skills and communicate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical colleagues

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