Senior Cloud Engineer - Azure

We are excited to be hiring for a Senior Cloud Engineer with a specialization in Azure!

Our Company Culture:

Our diverse workforce allows Centre to develop and leverage knowledge, skills, and experiences that impact our overall success. Within our collaborative environment, our team of consultants work to identify innovative solutions for our clients. Together, we guide our clients through the process of selecting, deploying, and managing IT solutions tailored to their specific business needs.

Centre Company Benefits:

Hybrid Work Options, Paid Time Off, and Paid Holidays

Medical, Dental, Vision, and 401(k) with employer match contributions

Stability to grow alongside hard-workers in a collaborative environment with opportunities to grow professionally

Position Summary

Responsible for service delivery with public and private cloud environments. The position will focus on infrastructure as a service which involves compute, storage and network elements.

The Sr. Technical Consultant working on the Hosted Services team would be focused on architecting and implementing various IT Infrastructure technologies as mentioned below with an emphasis on design, implementations for new and existing clients, migration and configuration of new infrastructure as a service solutions, verbose documentation of projects or task and other duties as assigned.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Maintain server and system uptime SLAs

Server reporting and alert management

Maintain certifications with technology partners

Troubleshooting customer issues in an urgent fashion

Install and implement systems and solutions

Post-sales technical follow-ups

Customer remote support (primary)

Ensure proper tracking of work orders and incidents through an electronic help desk system

Problem management and resolution of issues in a timely manner

Prioritization of tasks and meeting of deadlines, excellent time management skills

Excellent troubleshooting and assessment skills

Excellent written/verbal communication skills

Must be a team player with outstanding customer service skills

The ability to mentor and guide peers and assist teammates when skill set requires

Entry of timesheets, expense reports and documentation on or before deadline

Keep up-to-date on market trends, theory and new ways of doing things; embrace change

Assist with change-management activities

Prepare and deliver complete and concise documentation for all projects

Present progress reports to immediate supervisor and or Project Manager (if so assigned)

Manage multiple large scale projects in a fast paced environment

Quickly turn business problems into technical solutions

Participate in on-call schedule serving as one of the highest levels of escalation for network and security issues.

Education/Experience/Certifications

Associate’s Degree required (Bachelor’s Degree preferred)

10+ years hands-on IT experience

Certifications

Azure Administrator Associate or equivalent (Required)

Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect – Associate or equivalent desired

Zerto Certification desired

Veeam Certification desired

Areas of Expertise

Practical operational and design expertise with Azure

Design architecture of private/hybrid/public cloud architectures

Migration of workloads to public cloud environments

Troubleshooting public cloud security, instances, database services

Provisioning of cloud resources securely and ensuring data protection/backup/replication

Working knowledge of cloud storage, design and protection

Working knowledge of Windows Server and Domain Services 2016 and higher is required

Expert level experience with VMware ESXi 6.x is a plus

Experience with vCloud Director is a plus

Experience with Zerto DRaaS is a plus

Experience with Veeam is a plus

Intermediate to advanced knowledge and experience with Windows desktop and servers is required

Basic knowledge and experience with Linux based operating systems such as RedHat, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo and SUSE

Must demonstrate understanding of TCP/IP including layer 2/3 VLANs

Ability to troubleshoot IP networks

Intermediate to expert knowledge and experience with monitoring and assessment of system utilization, network performance and capacity planning

Advanced to expert knowledge and understanding of all layers of the OSI model

Basic to advanced knowledge and experience in automation including scripting, scheduled tasks, work flow design, mass deployment of software, etc.

Basic to advanced knowledge of data loss prevention

Work Environment and Physical Demands

Work primarily in a climate controlled environment with minimal safety/health hazard potential.

Occasional lifting (up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds) may be required

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities are able to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is moderate.

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