Cloud Engineer II

Summary

Join Rackspace as a mid to senior-level Azure Cloud Engineer to deliver cloud engineering services to Enterprise clients. Design and implement secure, scalable, and cost-optimized Azure cloud solutions. Build new customer cloud solutions using cloud-native components and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform. Develop application/infrastructure deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps or similar tools. Collaborate with developers, document processes, and create disaster recovery plans. Provide customer support, troubleshoot issues, and participate in on-call rotations. Support team development and success.

Requirements

• Engineer with 4-12 years of experience in the Azure cloud along with writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and building application/Infra deployment pipelines
• Experienced in on-prem/AWS/GCP to Azure migration using tooling like Azure migrate etc
• Expert-level knowledge of Azure Products & Services, Scaling, Load Balancing, etc
• Expert level knowledge of Azure DevOps, Pipelines, and CI/CD
• Expert level knowledge of Terraform and scripting (Python/Shell/PowerShell)
• Working knowledge in containerization technologies like Kubernetes, AKS, etc
• Working knowledge of Azure networking, like VPN gateways, VNets, etc
• Working knowledge of Windows or Linux operating systems – experience with supporting and troubleshooting stability and performance issues
• Working knowledge of automating the management and enforcement of policies using Azure Policies or similar
• Good understanding of other DevOps tools like Ansible, Jenkins, etc
• Good understanding of the design of native Cloud applications, Cloud application design patterns, and practices

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Azure cloud solutions that are secure, scalable, resilient, monitored, auditable, and cost optimized
• Build out new customer cloud solutions using cloud-native components
• Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
• Write application/Infra deployment pipeline using Azure DevOps or other industry-standard deployment and configuration tools
• Usage of cloud foundational architecture and components to build out automated cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, and supporting services frameworks
• Work with developers to identify necessary Azure resources and automate their provisioning
• Document automation processes
• Create and document a disaster recovery plan
• Strong communication skills along with customer-facing experience
• Respond to customer support requests within response time SLAs
• Troubleshoot performance degradation or loss of service as time-critical incidents
• Ownership of issues, including collaboration with other teams and escalation
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation
• Support the success and development of others in the team

Preferred Qualifications

Azure Admin, Azure DevOps, terraform certified candidates preferred