3 Months Contract to Hire Role / Only USC and GC/
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Continually assist with the baseline design and implementation of Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies and concepts to include IaaS, PaaS, Azure ARM templates, Azure Blueprints, and Azure policies.
Recommend and build policies for cloud deployments such as location, device based, capacity sizing, governance, or other criteria.
Help determine tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) for cloud management and monitoring tools.
Recommend and implement cloud computing environment resource cost management based on capacity management.
Recommend and implement standards that ensure adherence to security policies and procedures.
Assist in building incident response procedures for cloud environment.
Research and investigate cyber threats and security incidents in conjunction with the IT Security team.
Evaluate and recommend cloud infrastructure resources based on IT project requirements.
Develop and support standard operating procedures to simplify and streamline IT processes.
Provide support to assist with connecting monitoring and security tools (SolarWinds/SIEM/SOAR) with cloud environment.
Understand basic network cloud connectivity in a hybrid cloud environment.
Assists the Information Security team in monitoring security systems, reviewing logs, and managing information security systems.
Identify, analyze, and report resource constraints within the cloud environment, using information collected from a variety of sources, to maintain cloud service operations.
Troubleshoot, diagnose, investigate, and resolve network and infrastructure issues and incidents; Provide Root Cause Analysis support.
Minimum Qualifications & Competencies:
Experience within Azure cloud infrastructure including areas of sizing, provisioning, monitoring, and capacity management.
Provide expertise and serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cloud services.
Work with development & data teams providing cloud resource deployment orchestration, automation, security, and configuration expertise.
Expertise in monitoring, administering, troubleshooting, and identifying solutions in cloud environments.
Proficiency in implementing secure infrastructure solutions.
Ability to translate strategic requirements into enterprise architecture designs.
Participate in continuous improvement planning for cloud operations, including technology reviews, root cause analysis, action reports analysis, and cloud portfolio review to ensure adequate infrastructure to provide a suitable operating environment(s) for critical applications.
Expertise implementing cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions.
Provide general and routine maintenance support including installation, patching, configuration, backups, and updates.
Expertise implementing virtual infrastructure.
Solid knowledge of Active Directory, Windows Server OS, VMware, PKI certificate management, and RADIUS authentication.
Working knowledge of PowerShell scripting
Ability to interact with a broad cross-section of personnel to gracefully explain and enforce cloud infrastructure requirements and guidance.
Must possess strong interpersonal, organizational, customer service, and communication skills and an ability to interact effectively with a wide range of users of varying levels of technological expertise.
Great troubleshooting and problem analysis skills
Self-motivated with a strong willingness to learn and grow with changing cloud technologies and a fast-paced business environment.
Drive automation of cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, self-service, Infrastructure-as-Code services, auto-scaling, DevOps deployment, and others.
Requires occasional work during non-business hours and on weekends.
Participate in on-call rotation.
Bachelor's Degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent experience.
Microsoft Azure certification (plus)
This is a remote position.
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