MS Azure Engineer

Job Summary:

Continental Resource is looking for a Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer to join our team in Bedford MA.  You will work with our customers to build the cloud systems infrastructure, focusing on orchestration, security, availability and performance. A successful candidate has strong experience with Azure Cloud services, is self-driven, enjoys learning new technologies, and is willing to stretch themselves to become a stronger engineer and mentor others around them to do the same.

Responsibilities:

• Overall operational excellence with Azure cloud services. Including but not limited to optimizing cost/capacity ratios, proper monitoring, scaling, implementing and validating database DR scenarios, networking, and security frameworks. 
• Developing effective cloud infrastructure, enforcing good architectural principles, providing technical oversight, and ensuring security best practices are implemented and followed.
• Develop infrastructure as code on Azure using best practices and implementations across all environments from dev to production.
• Aid in reviewing design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.

Requirements

Qualifications or equivalent:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of system infrastructure design and implementation experience
• 3+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience
• 2+ years of Powershell or equivalent
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Team player who can coordinate across customer business units to achieve operational excellence
• Required knowledge / experience:
  • Experience with planning and deploying Azure IaaS deployments, migrations, network, and security frameworks. 
  • Cloud infrastructure architecture and principles
  • SQL Azure, Cosmos DB, or equivalent
  • Elastic DB, Azure Search, or equivalent
  • Azure Cloud Services and App Services or equivalent
  • Understanding of Azure networking including Azure public cloud and Azure Hybrid Cloud topologies.
  • A working understanding of code and script (PHP, JavaScript, Python, Perl and/or Ruby)
• Strongly desired:
  • Kubernetes or similar container orchestration systems
  • Ansible
  • Docker Containers
  • Azure Active Directory
  • Azure Stack
  • Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (Release Management)
  • Azure Certifications

• The pay range for this position is $140,000 – $150,000 per yearplus commissions.
• This range reflects the annual salary that Continental Resources reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at the time of posting, consistent with the Massachusetts Pay Transparency Law (M.G.L. c. 149, § 105E).

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