About the Role

• This position is responsible for owning and overseeing the Cloud Infrastructure Strategy for creating reliable, scalable and efficient infrastructure in Microsoft Azure.
• You will act as a liaison with software architects, security, and business stakeholders to align cloud initiatives with strategic company goals.
• You will also ensure smooth cloud adoption.
• Additionally, you would provide mentoring and skill development guidance to cloud engineers to continue the upward evolution of the team.

Qualifications

• Minimum 15 years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience mentoring and coaching other within a team.

Required Technical Skills

• Experience in a Principal or Senior role with cloud platform ownership responsibility.
• Proven expertise in managing and supporting a substantial Azure footprint (multiple tenants and subscriptions).
• Strong networking skills in connecting and integrating Azure cloud infrastructure with on-premise datacenters.
• Experience creating Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates in Bicep, ARM, and/or Terraform.
• Experience creating Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines in Azure DevOps, or else GitHub Actions, to automate the deployment of code to the cloud.
• Experience implementing monitoring & alerting tools such as Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics and /or have experience with similar tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or ELK.
• Must have experience managing security features such as Entra, RBAC, PIM & PAM, NSG, and Azure Firewall.
• Experience implementing Containers such as Kubernetes is a plus.

Required Non-Technical Skills

• Flexibility and being Customer focused, able to forge strong relationships with peers, collaborators and stakeholders.
• Principle-centered architect, able to evaluate technical solutions against objective requirements and develop consensus as a team, rather than relying on preference or organizational authority.
• We prefer candidates that illustrate the following: an interior drive, an insatiable curiosity, a passion for making an impact. People whose intelligence shows through the quality of their questions, and who usually have a broader perspective than just IT.