Principle Cloud Engineer

Role: Principle Cloud Engineer Location: REMOTE Florida Duration: 6 + Months Position Responsibilities • • Provide leadership and oversight with your strong understanding of Cloud services, DevOps/ DevSecOps toolsets and platforms including compute, storage, networking, Security, Kubernetes, service mesh, CI/CD as well as monitoring and logging technologies. • Define and drive automation of Cloud infrastructure provisioning and configuration management, self-service, Infrastructure-as-Code services, Auto Scale initiatives, and DevOps deployment and drive cloud strategy to move towards PaaS, and SaaS models. • Define standards and best practices by conducting POCs for new cloud technologies. • Develop security baselines and standards for Azure resources including Network access, Restriction of internet-facing resource provision, and configuration within the Azure environment. • Define and develop architectural standards that promote DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). • Optimizing solution architectures to manage costs and identify cost control mechanisms. • Provide expertise and serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for both infrastructure and applications in Microsoft Azure. • Work with application teams with their digital transformation goals and provide Azure resource deployment orchestration, automation, security, and configuration expertise. • Work with applications team to draft and institutionalize cloud security standards, reference architecture’s, patterns, and guidelines for both cloud-native development and migrations. • Lead and implement all aspects of a cloud migration initiative, including its impact on infrastructure, networks, and security. • Work with the IT Security Team, Solution Architects, and Cloud Operations Team with any security-related issues that arise. • Develop, maintain, and drive a continuous improvement culture within Cloud Center of Excellence team and its partners. • Establish a continuous improvement plan for Cloud Operations, including technology reviews, root cause analysis, action reports analysis, and cloud portfolio review to ensure adequate infrastructure to provide a suitable operating environment(s) for critical applications. Required Qualifications • • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related analytical field, or equivalent experience. • Minimum of 5 years of experience in Azure (corresponding GCP or AWS experience is also acceptable for required qualifications) • 4 years of proven experience in PaaS services such as Azure AppService, Azure Kubernetes services, AWS Bean Stalk, GCP App Engine etc. • 2 years of proven experience with public cloud database services such as Azure SQL, Azure COSMOS DB, Dynamo DB, Firestore etc. • 2 years of proven experience with public cloud Big Data tools such as Azure Data Lake, Azure Data bricks, Azure Data Factory, Tensorflow, Data Proc etc. • 3 years of experience with public cloud network infrastructure such as VNETs, subnets, Network Security Groups, route tables, VPC, DNS etc. • 2 years of proven experience in public cloud security tools such as Azure AD, Azure Security Center, Azure Key Vault, Azure Policies, Identity Platform, Congnito etc. • 2 years of proven in public cloud monitoring tools such as Azure Monitoring, Log Analytics, Network watcher, Network Intelligence center, VPC Flow Logs etc. • 2 years of proven experience working with multiple Subscriptions/Accounts (in 100s) within an Enterprise Agreement. • Experience in designing and implementing applications using PaaS Services in a hybrid cloud environment. • Hands-on experience deploying cloud resources from DevOps pipelines. • Hands-on experience writing Terraform. • Hands-on experience writing cloud resource and security policies • Hands-on experience writing scripts in PowerShell or Azure CLI or respective CLI for the cloud provider • Hands-on experience migrating applications to the cloud • Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience with communicating with other teams via calls, chats, and email Preferred Qualifications • AZ 301/304 and AZ 300/303 Azure Architect Certifications. • Familiarity with 1 or more version control systems (Git, Azure DevOps). • Hands-on experience with using, configuring, implementing, and troubleshooting network infrastructure connecting to Azure (Express Route, Site-to -Site VPN). • Experience with Containers and Container orchestration solutions: Kubernetes, AKS and Docker Swarm • Expertise in Azure SQL Server, Cosmos DB and MongoDB. • Experience with Prisma Cloud or other 3rd Azure Security tools. • Experience with big data clustering technologies (Hadoop, Spark, HDInsight, EMR, etc.). Thanks & Regards, Pavan Kumar| Jr.US IT Recruiter Thought wave Software and Solutions Desk: 6303810025 Email:pavan@thoughtwavesoft.com Website:www.thoughtwavesoft.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/pavan-kumar-madivada-416274170/