Principal Cloud Engineer

Role Overview:

The Azure Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing robust, scalable, and secure cloud solutions on the Azure platform. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of Azure services, best practices, and architecture patterns to drive the adoption and optimization of cloud technologies within the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their requirements, technical merits, and TCO value propositions, identifying gaps and opportunities to align solutions with the company's service offerings
• Design and create well-structured, secure, scalable, efficient, and cost-optimized Azure solutions, considering trade-offs between requirements, speed, cost, and reliability.
• Develop proof-of-concepts (POCs) to demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of proposed Azure solutions in real-world scenarios
• Create detailed solution proposals and architecture designs, outlining technical aspects and implementation timelines
• Provide hands-on guidance during POC implementation and initial deployments, ensuring a smooth client experience
• Collaborate with technical teams to facilitate the seamless transition of proposed solutions into practical implementation, addressing client-specific requirements
• Develop strategies for cost-effective utilization of Azure services, including cost analysis, monitoring, and optimization techniques
• Stay up-to-date with the latest Azure services, solutions, and best practices to ensure offerings remain cutting-edge and aligned with industry trends
• Share insights, best practices, and success stories with the team to enhance collective knowledge and effectiveness
• Manage end-to-end oversight of multiple full life cycle Azure cloud engagements, demonstrating ability to handle product and program management aspects within Azure solutions

Desired Skills

Must Have

• Strong understanding of various cloud software solution stacks, including compute, orchestration, infrastructure management, storage, and networking solutions.
• Proven hands-on knowledge of cloud computing, containerization technologies/Kubernetes, database design, data warehousing, ETL/data ops, and security.
• Extensive experience working with multiple clients in assessing and migrating applications to the cloud.
• Proven experience as a Cloud Engineer handling medium to large-scale cloud migrations.
• Expertise in building enterprise-class Cloud landing zones and foundational services.
• Proficiency in creating Terraform templates for landing zone creation & infrastructure provisioning using Terraform/ARM templates.
• Experience in performing Well-Architected Reviews for customers.
• Familiarity with designing DevOps pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, and GitHub.
• Expertise in tools like Terraform and ARM Templates for developing CI/CD processes and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) artifacts for deployments.
• Overall design experience for network, security, generic infrastructure, and supporting services in Azure.
• Excellent working knowledge of Windows or Linux operating systems.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and ability to function effectively in an Agile-based environment.

Good to Have

• Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, or equivalent.
• Experience with Azure Governance, Policy, and Compliance frameworks.
• Knowledge of Azure security best practices, including Azure AD, Azure Security Center, Azure Advisor and Azure Sentinel.
• Familiarity with serverless computing and Azure Functions.
• Experience with Azure Event Hubs, Azure Event Grid, Azure Data Services, such as Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Databricks.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Experience

• 12+ years of experience on cloud platforms, with a specialty in Azure.

Education

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.