Position: Azure Cloud Engineer (FinOps)
Compensation: $120K - $140K
Locations: - On Site - Plano, TX or Camas, WA or Tampa, FL - NO OTHER LOCATIONS OR RELOCATIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED
Work Authorization: USC or GC ONLY
Education: Bachelor's degree in MIS, computer science, or a related field
Experience:
- 5+ years of experience deploying and maintaining resources and managing infrastructure through both manual and automated pipelines in an IT infrastructure & operational environment.
- 3+ years of experience in Azure cloud deployments using IaC and building, deploying and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services.
- 2+ years of experience deploying resources and automaton builds, workflows, tasks and other integration aspects using Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and GitHub / GitHub Actions (YAML/YML)
- 2+ years of experience with Azure Cost Management tools.
- 2+ years of experience Azure CLI and experience troubleshooting Azure Cloud environment
Responsibilities:
- Improve cost usage across the cloud environment.
- Establish cost-effective strategies for cloud resources and enforce policies, procedures and best practices for cloud cost management.
- Produce the required cost reports and come up with cost-saving options.
- Work with partners and teams to ensure compliance with governance policies.
- Educate and give training to cloud users on cloud cost management and optimization practices.
- Conduct deep-dive analysis on cloud spend data to support decision-making.
- Create and maintain required generic cost management dash boards for business.
- Deploy enterprise scaled resources that can be used across technology organizations
- Deploy scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure using automation tooling for routine operation tasks
- Manage implementation and the ongoing operation of cloud services following approved designs, adherence to patterns, security requirements and certify all logging and monitoring are active for security and compliance
- Use automation, configuration management and deployment tools to manage production environment ensuring standardization and adherence to established controls and patterns
- Work with solution architects and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls and meet cloud computing best practices
- Enhance existing deployment processes and Infrastructure as Code scripts to improve automation, efficiency, consistency and adherence to security and audit requirements and control
- Maintain comprehensive and systematic configuration, lifecycle and security management of servers
- Ensure cloud services and toolsets are deployed applying best practices and documentation
- Be the main contact for business application owners, building a bridge between them and the cloud team
- Work with other Cloud engineers and Architects, application and business owners to deploy and improve the cloud environment
- Implement or suggest strategies in IaC, CI/CD for applying faster and secure deployments
