[ref. j85583222] Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
Overview:
As a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for working in a team-based environment supporting our customers running workloads in the public cloud. You will work in conjunction with your team to foster heightened customer experience and drive technical innovation in the managed services practice.
Responsibilities:
CORPORATE VALUES
Respectful communication and cooperation: We prioritize respectful communication, fostering an environment where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
Teamwork and employee participation: Collaboration and teamwork thrive through diverse perspectives, both within our teams and in our interactions with our customers.
Work/life balance that supports our employees’ varying needs: We value the well-being of our employees, recognizing that a healthy work-life balance is pivotal to our collective success.
Embracing communities: We embrace and support the communities that nurture us. Our employees' dedication to fostering positive change is a source of immense pride for us.
COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING
We are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate or allow discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
ePlus is dedicated to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture that represents diversity, enables inclusion, and makes our employees feel comfortable bringing their full, unique selves to work.
YOUR IMPACT
The essential functions of this position include:
- Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of Azure production environments
- Ensuring availability, performance, security, governance and scalability of Azure production systems via various monitoring, logging, and other toolsets
- Management of creation, release, and configuration of production systems
- System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms
- Validation of new customer deployments
- Deployment in conjunction with best practice design and governance
- Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements
- Deployment and configuration of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on Azure platform
- Maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes
- Technical escalation point within the team
- Participate regularly as a primary resource in an on-call rotation
- 3+ years of experience in deploying and supporting of Azure environments
- 5+ years of experience in deploying and supporting complex datacenter and/or public cloud environments
- Azure Certified DevOps Engineer Expert, Azure Solutions Architect certification or other Azure related certification preferred
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in IT or consulting in IT
- Strong Written and Verbal Communication Skills
- Experience being an initial point of escalation for technical issues
- Azure experience with multiple IaaS and PaaS services
- Ability to troubleshoot complex, interdisciplinary public cloud technical issues
- Ability to work in a diverse and geographically dispersed team environment with multiple engineering resources of varying skillsets and responsibilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work with a wide range of Customers across different verticals
- Experience in code development in at least one high-level programming language
- Cloud networking experience with services such as VNETs, ExpressRoute, VPN, Azure Firewall, Azure vWAN, Azure App Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, FrontDoor, and Traffic Manager
- Experience working in a complex CI/CD pipeline to include tools such as Azure DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) skillsets to include Azure Bicep, ARM Templates and/or other toolsets such as Terraform
- Knowledge of operating system administration to include Linux and Windows
- Microsoft technologies to include Active Directory, SQL, Patch Management, Certificate Services
- SIEM technologies to include Microsoft Sentinel and other Enterprise SIEMs such as Splunk
- Cloud Identity to include Active Directory and Azure Active Directory
- Cloud Security services to include Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, Azure Firewall, Azure WAF
- Kubernetes/Container security solutions such as Aqua and Palo Alto Prisma Cloud
- Knowledge of business continuity practices to include multi-region Disaster Recovery and Backup
- Kubernetes design and deployment
- Experience with application load testing and quality assurance activities
POSITION SPECIFICS
The base salary range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $150,000 and $175,000 annually; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including commissions and discretionary bonuses, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and personal leave), dependent on the position offered.
Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. ePlus Benefits highlights can be viewed here.
If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
Notice to Recruiting Agencies: ePlus only accepts unsolicited resumes when presented directly by a candidate. Unsolicited resumes submitted to ePlus from any other source will be considered ePlus property, and will not qualify for any placement or referral fees.ePlus will only pay such fees in connection with a valid written agreement between ePlus and the referring agency, and then only after providing advance written approval to the referring agency to submit resumes in connection with a particular opportunity.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
While performing this role, you will engage in both seated and occasional standing or walking activities. We provide reasonable accommodations, in accordance with relevant laws, to support success in this position.
By embracing our values, you will contribute to our collective mission of making a positive impact within our organization and the broader community. We understand that this job description serves as a guide and is not an employment contract.