Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Department: 166 Cloud Services

Location: Remote, United Kingdom

Description

EIS is a multi-cloud support company. Azure is one of the main Public Cloud Hosting providers EIS use for the deployment of Insurance platform.

The Azure Infrastructure Engineer (CloudOps) will be responsible for the design, migration, development, and implementation of Azure infrastructure components and their automated provisioning and configuration for efficient EIS applications and services deployments on Azure Cloud. This is a technical Infrastructure focused role, you will be accountable for the many facets of EIS clients cloud implementations. The Azure Infrastructure Engineer will be working with a team of highly talented software development professionals and will be responsible for the support and development of new processes and tools which ensures the successful and effective integration of fully functional software working products.

Azure Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) is cooperating with other engineers: CICD engineers, Developers, QAs, Cloud and Application Architects, Project Managers.

Key Responsibilities

• Deep technical experience in infrastructure design, build and deployment, including private and public cloud, networking, connectivity, storage, virtualization and identity management
• Keep infrastructure as code (IaC) model for Cloud infrastructure support
• Keep Software setup using Ansible or templates support
• Collaborating with development teams during product implementation
• Constantly challenge the existing practices to propose improvements
• Implementation of Azure networking for enterprise organizations
• Build of hybrid environments to span existing customer networks and Azure
• Securing, managing and monitoring Azure environments
  
  

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, Azure Active Directory, AD Connect, Azure Monitor, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Azure App Services, Azure Storage, Azure PostgreSQL Flexible servers, Azure SQL Managed Instances
• Strong experience in Azure PAM and DLP (Data Leak Prevention) technologies in Azure
• Experience with one of the coding languages for scripting: e.g. Bash, Python
• Understand internet routing protocols and switched environments
• Have good knowledge of network administration, VPN/IPSec
• Extensive experience with Git and source code management best practices
• Experience building and deploying Azure resources using IaC - Terraform
• Experience Azure AKS
• Good Linux OS administration knowledge and experience
• Experience with Azure monitoring
• An open mind and proactive approach to any obstacles we may face
• Experience with Ansible
  
  

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience with SQL and non-SQL databases
• Experience working with Docker - building, maintaining, and executing Docker images
• Experience with Azure CLI or Azure ARM
• DevSecOps experience
• Some history of IT community work - conferences, meetups etc.
• Mentoring or team-leading experience
• Understanding of logging tools (ELK)
• Any IT/Clouds certifications
• Kubernetes system architecture knowledge and Helm deployment
  
  

On-Call Duty:

• Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to provide support outside of regular business hours.
• Respond to critical incidents and service outages promptly and effectively.
• Work with the team to implement preventative measures and minimize downtime.
• Provide support for urgent issues that arise in the cloud infrastructure during on-call periods.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).
• Azure Administrator Associate or higher Azure certificate.
• Experience building and deploying Azure resources using IaC - Terraform.
• Proven experience with Azure services
• Proven experience and strong understanding of cloud networking including Subscriptions, VNets, security groups, load balancer design, VPN.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices.
• Experience in designing and implementing scalable and highly available cloud architectures.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
  
  

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools such as CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Azure Monitor, ELK Stack, DataDog or similar.