IT Accel is Hiring a Public Cloud/Storage Engineer Near New York, NY
Public Cloud/Storage Engineer |Contract-to-Hire Hybrid: NYC or Burlington County, NJThe Infrastructure Technology Solutions -Cloud Infrastructure team is responsible for the introduction and maintenance of technologies that support our Azure public cloud environment. This encompasses IaaS, storage, network, and other fundamental services to support cloud stakeholders and lines of business. Key deliverables include the introduction of new services and capabilities in these areas, adding feature enhancements, and acting as a point of contact for escalations and consultations for our support and application teams. A strong network background is preferred as the team is also accountable for the development and maintenance of network capabilities within Azure (e.g., firewall, DNS, IPAM, etc.). Additionally, the role will involve working closely with our security and control partners to deliver services in a manner that aligns with the bank's security posture. Candidates will need to be familiar with working in a DevOps/Infrastructure-as-Code environment and be comfortable working with CI/CD pipeline technologies. The successful candidate must have demonstrated ability to design and deliver solutions within a public cloud environment and have experience working collaboratively with business partners, risk management organizations, and other operations & infrastructure teams. Roles And Responsibilities
Assess, engineer, and deliver IaaS, storage, and network technologies and solutions to the public cloud platform via automation pipelines
Develop automation leveraging our pipeline and configuration management technologies to deploy and configure resources
Create high- and low-level design diagrams, build/deployment standards and technical specifications documentation
Analysis and design of network capabilities within Azure (i.e., network segmentation, DNS, IPAM, etc.)
Troubleshoot network connectivity issues between Azure resources and on-premises infrastructure
Align with our cloud stakeholders and customers to develop new capabilities/feature enhancements for our existing services
Assist in the deployment and troubleshooting of new platforms that leverage our infrastructure services
Development/documentation of deployments plans for our services to be consumed by release and application teams
Analysis of potential security issues/vulnerabilities and development of remediation plans to ensure a secure and stable environment
Align with technology & regulatory risk partners to set requirements
Job Requirements
3 years experience of infrastructure automation with a solid development background (Python is preferred; Java or other also acceptable)
Solid understanding and experience with public cloud environments (Azure is preferred, AWS also acceptable)
Experience with continuous integration/continuous delivery pipeline technologies and code release processes is required
Experience with CI/CD/infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Terraform, etc.) is required
Solid scripting skills (e.g., Bash, PowerShell) is required
Practical administration experience working with Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux is preferred
Experience with network segmentation utilizing Azure native Network Security Groups (NSGs) and Application Security Groups (ASGs) is preferred
Experience with the deployment of Network Virtual Appliances (NVAs) or Azure Firewall is preferred
Understanding of Azure Policy and maintaining resource compliance is preferred
Strong communication skills to explain technologies to a wide audience
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple deadlines and priorities
Ability to take leadership on engineering design decisions, solve technical problems, and make improvements to our systems
Azure certifications including Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) and Azure Security Technologies (AZ-500) are preferred
CISSP, CISM, or other general network security industry certifications are preferred
Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or engineering is required