Azure Cloud Engineer

About the role: We seek a dynamic, customer-facing Azure Cloud Engineer to work as part of our Professional Services team in the completion of complex IT projects.

What You’ll Do:
- Provide hands-on technical support for complex projects, focusing on production and implementation.
- Participate in project work plans and report deviations to Project Managers as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
- Effectively apply Dataprise methodology and enforcing project standards.
- Minimize exposure and risk to Dataprise on projects.
- Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
- Serve as a technical escalation point for technical staff from other Dataprise departments.
- Work with account teams to identify and resolve persistent and lingering issues.
- Ensure that timely communications and updates are provided to all relevant parties.
- Design, implement, and manage secure, scalable, and reliable Azure infrastructure environments.
- Assist with implementing Azure infrastructure enhancements to streamline customer workloads.
- Assist with the planning and migration of complex customer workloads to Microsoft Azure.
- Assist with maintaining continuous-integration & continuous-deployment (CI/CD) platforms.
- Develop cloud automation tailored to unique customer needs and requirements.
- Gather, review, and validate network requirements, VNETs, and network security groups.
- Deploy and configure both Azure Native and custom network and firewall configurations.
- Assist with troubleshooting various technologies such as Hyper-V, VMWare, Windows Server, Active Directory, and physical infrastructure issues.
- Implement Azure monitoring and diagnostics pipelines based on unique customer needs.
- Support the Project Architecture team as needed, to include customer-facing discussions about Azure products offerings.
- Utilize PowerShell, Azure CLI, and other scripting languages to complete day to day tasks.

What Skills & Experience You’ll Need:
- Several years of experience working in project-based environments and/or reporting to Project Managers.
- Experience planning, designing, & deploying Azure infrastructure and resources.
- Familiarity with Azure Active Directory administration.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) workflows (Azure ARM, Bicep, and/or Terraform).
- Experience with Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
- Familiarity with the BICEP development language. (Preferred)
- Experience or familiarity with utilizing Azure Migrate and/or Azure Site Recovery for migrations.
- Familiarity with migrating customer applications to cloud-native PaaS solutions.
- Basic understanding of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) methodology.
- Basic understanding of the Microsoft Zero Trust security model.
- Knowledge of Git and Branching Strategies.
- Basic understanding of Azure DevOps workflows.
- Great people, customer service, and verbal/written communication skills.
- The desire to be our next rock star as you are passionate, hardworking, a team player, and motivated to delight customers.
- Any of the following certifications are preferred:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert