LHH is looking for a Sr. Staff IT Cloud Systems Engineer to aid an established and rapidly growing client of ours in the Computer Hardware space. This person will provide support for a wide range of IT systems and services including the corporate virtualization environment, and will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure across multiple IT environments.

Responsibilities

• Participate in projects and help engineer new systems.

• Monitor performance of critical servers and applications.

• Manage the load configuration and make recommendations for purchase or upgrade of hardware as well as the tuning of software.

• Engage and manage 3rd-party vendors to achieve expedient resolution.

• Using appropriate cloud services to design and deploy architecture and applications based on given customer and/or Solutions Architect’s requirements.

• Build highly available/fault-tolerant enterprise class infrastructure with multiple-region and multi-AZ models.

• Create and maintain system documentation for specifications, designs, procedures, and logs.

• Document all processes, system changes/fixes, and issues.

• Implement least privilege access controls and monitor security events.

• Collaborate with security teams to address vulnerabilities and maintain compliance.

• Focus on Microsoft Intune for device management, configuration, and security.

• Ensure secure design principles are followed throughout the cloud architecture

• Improve resiliency for all cloud applications and infrastructure and ensure that HA, DR, Data Protection requirements are appropriately engineered and implemented for each workload

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science preferred

• 8 years of experience tackling cloud migrations as well as high proficiency in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.

• Strong experience and working knowledge of cloud identity or access management solutions enforcing security guidelines.

• Experience using Configuration Management and Configuration Orchestration tools, such as Ansible, Terraform.

• Experience with one or more scripting languages (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, Python, PHP, etc.)

• Experience with being a team lead and cross-training, mentoring and providing support for team members.

• Deep knowledge of networking topologies and engineering, including DNS, Load Balancers, Gateway Devices and Web Application Firewalls

• In-depth knowledge of Azure networking services such as Azure Virtual WAN, VNETS, management of Azure Application/Network Security Groups, Private Link, VNET peering, Routing, Express Route, Site-to-Site VPN, and Point-to-Site VPN

• In-depth knowledge of security and IAM / Role Based Access Controls in Azure, Azure Policy, and Azure Management Groups and Subscriptions.

• Experience with automating cloud native technologies, deploying applications, and provisioning infrastructure

• Knowledge of system monitoring in a cloud environment including cloud specific products and tools.

Sound like a fit? Apply today!