Full-Time Azure Cloud Engineer

Sensia is looking for a self-organized and experienced Cloud professional who can define, implement, and manage cloud-based systems within the Microsoft Azure cloud. The ideal candidate is experienced in Microsoft cloud-based technologies, with a firm grasp of emerging technologies, platforms, and applications, and ability to deploy them to help our business become more secure and efficient. Extensive knowledge of cloud maintenance, advanced industry knowledge and effective performance / cost optimisation is key to the success of this role. From day one, you’ll have an immediate impact on the day-to-day efficiency of our cloud operations, and an ongoing impact on our overall growth. 

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to the job. They are not intended to be an all-encompassing list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified.  Reasonable accommodations to essential functions of the job will be made if necessary.

Duties
Functional
•    Work with the business teams to understand their needs and to evaluate and identify and deploy optimal cloud solutions
•    Optimising existing solutions for both performance and cost in accordance with best practices
•    Educating business teams on the implementation of new cloud technologies
•    Ensuring efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security
•    Identifying, analysing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues
•    Regularly reviewing existing systems and making recommendations for improvements
•    Work with the Cloud Architect to define Sensia’s cloud strategy and standards
•    Develop and deploy effective Azure cloud architectures, utilising standardised deployment tools
•    Execute the hands-on implementation of proposed solutions and provide technical guidance to teams during the solutions’ development and deployment phases
•    Ensure adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, usability design standards, etc.
•    Collaborate and partner with parent company IT teams in accordance with agreed governance 

Leadership
•    Influence positive change utilizing standard methodologies & management activities (individual or large group) within a complex environment.
•    Persevere through obstacles to achieve results and remove obstacles to facilitate other’s success.
•    Demonstrate confidence, maturity and flexibility in response to work challenges.
•    Ability to develop vision & tactical skills to achieve results through influencing skills.
•    Provide early and clear escalation of critical issues.
•    Clear effective communication across all levels of the organization.
•    Effectively partner with the IT teams within Rockwell to resolve wider issues that Sensia cannot solve alone.
•    Partner with the Rockwell Automation cloud team to ensure there is alignment, where practical, between the two companies
•    Ability to integrate business needs with corporate policies and industry best practice

Minimum Qualifications
•    Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant technical field
•    Minimum of 3 years in a cloud engineering role using service and hosting solutions such as private/public cloud IaaS, PaaS and SaaS platforms.
•    Experience in architecting and designing technical solutions leveraging Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities.
•    Knowledge of authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC
•    Knowledge of cloud security controls including conditional access policies, tenant isolation, encryption at rest, encryption in transit, key management, vulnerability assessments, application firewalls, SIEM, etc.
•    Experience building and supporting mission critical technology components with Disaster Recovery capabilities
•    Extensive, real-world experience designing technology components for enterprise solutions with a focus on cloud technologies

Desired Qualifications:
•    Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraforms, etc.
•    Experience with relational, graph and/or unstructured data technologies such as SQL Server, Azure SQL, Azure DataPMP / Agile certifications or experience
•    Power Platform knowledge and experience in technologies like Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate is desirable
 

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