Lead Azure Cloud Engineer

Zenzero
Liverpool
1 year ago
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Azure Lead Cloud EngineerAs a Lead Azure CloudEngineer you will play a pivotal role in our Data & DevelopmentServices capability, working closely with our data and softwareengineers to create robust, secure, scalable solutions. Leveragingyour technical skills across the Azure platform, you will design,build, and optimise solutions for our customers, owning ourapproach to implementing networking, CI/CD, and securityfunctionality. Key Responsibilities: Designing and implementing ourcustomers’ Azure infrastructure, including provisioning,configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance andsecurity. Ensuring cloud infrastructure meets performance,security, and other non-functional requirements. Migrating clients’existing on-premises infrastructure services to Azure. Building outour internal Azure sandbox tenant to enable proofs of concept andhosting of our industry accelerators and demonstrators. ProvidingAzure technical expertise and guidance to our data engineers and365 engineers. Staying abreast of industry trends, best practice,and new features within Azure and the wider platform engineeringdiscipline to keep Zenzero’s offering up-to-date. Cloud EngineeringLead Typical Cloud Engineering tasks: Instantiating Azure services,with a focus on data (e.g. Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, AzureData Lake, Azure SQL, Azure Databricks, Azure Machine Learning)Designing network architecture for client’s Azure tenantsConfiguring and administrating Service Principals, users, andgroups Creating VNets and Private Endpoints Setting up performancemonitoring and trouble-shooting issues Creating subscriptions withappropriate cost-control measures in place Designing and buildingCI/CD pipelines and version control Building and maintaining ourinternal tooling and processes We do not expect you to be an expertin all areas and we understand that experiences vary based on thebackground and years of experience Below we list some of the skillswe are looking for. An inquisitive approach to technology andproblem solving Expertise in cloud infrastructure and networkingSound knowledge of design principles and an interest in developingrobust solutions Experience in working across a range of tools andservices across the Azure stack Strong interpersonal skills andable to develop good working relationships with internal andcustomer stakeholders Comfortable with a degree of ambiguity incustomer requirements and the ability to make decisions based onlimited information Excellent written and verbal communicationskills and communicate complex technical information to bothtechnical and non-technical colleagues

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