Azure Cloud Engineer - Financial Operations

Client: Wealth Management

Position: Azure Cloud Engineer (FinOps)

Compensation: $120K - $140K

Locations: - First 90 days on site with 75 days a year afterwards to WFH

• Plano, TX
• Camas, WA
• Tampa, FL

Education: Bachelor's degree in MIS, computer science, or a related field

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience deploying and maintaining resources and managing infrastructure through both manual and automated pipelines in an IT infrastructure & operational environment. 
• 3+ years of experience in Azure cloud deployments using IaC and building, deploying and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services.
• 2+ years of experience deploying resources and automaton builds, workflows, tasks and other integration aspects using Terraform, CI/CD pipelines and GitHub / GitHub Actions (YAML/YML)
• 2+ years of experience with Azure Cost Management tools.
• 2+ years of experience Azure CLI and experience troubleshooting Azure Cloud environment

Responsibilities:

• Improve cost usage across the cloud environment.
• Establish cost-effective strategies for cloud resources and enforce policies, procedures and best practices for cloud cost management.
• Produce the required cost reports and come up with cost-saving options.
• Work with partners and teams to ensure compliance with governance policies.
• Educate and give training to cloud users on cloud cost management and optimization practices.
• Conduct deep-dive analysis on cloud spend data to support decision-making.
• Create and maintain required generic cost management dash boards for business.
• Deploy enterprise scaled resources that can be used across technology organizations
• Deploy scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure using automation tooling for routine operation tasks
• Manage implementation and the ongoing operation of cloud services following approved designs, adherence to patterns, security requirements and certify all logging and monitoring are active for security and compliance
• Use automation, configuration management and deployment tools to manage production environment ensuring standardization and adherence to established controls and patterns
• Work with solution architects and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls and meet cloud computing best practices
• Enhance existing deployment processes and Infrastructure as Code scripts to improve automation, efficiency, consistency and adherence to security and audit requirements and control
• Maintain comprehensive and systematic configuration, lifecycle and security management of servers
• Ensure cloud services and toolsets are deployed applying best practices and documentation
• Be the main contact for business application owners, building a bridge between them and the cloud team
• Work with other Cloud engineers and Architects, application and business owners to deploy and improve the cloud environment 
• Implement or suggest strategies in IaC, CI/CD for applying faster and secure deployments

Benefits:

• 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents
• A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
• 20 days of PTO, plus 10 paid holidays
• Family Support programs including 8 week Paid Primary Caregiver Leave, $10,000 fertility, family forming, and hormonal health assistance, and back-up child, adult, and elder care