Senior Cloud Engineer

Position Title: Senior Cloud Engineer

$90,000 to $150,000 annually DOE

Comprehensive health benefits include- medical, dental, vision, 401k, flexible spending account, paid sick leave and paid time off, quarterly performance bonus, training, career growth and education reimbursement programs.

Company Background: 

Everyone deserves the best internet possible and that’s the refreshingly great experience we’re creating at Ziply Fiber. We’re bringing fiber to more than one million homes and businesses across the broader Northwest. By pairing brilliantly fast internet with customer choice and control, we’re making it simple and easy for you to connect to the things that matter most to you. Ziply Fiber is based in Kirkland, Washington, providing communities across Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana with fiber internet in addition to streaming TV, privacy products and phone service as well.

Job Summary:

This position can be 100% remote.

We are looking for someone who is interested in a direct hire role (no C2C) with a customer service mindset, strong interpersonal skills, team player, results-oriented attitude, commitment, adaptability, and flexibility! You’ll be working with a team to build and support a growing infrastructure.

The Senior Cloud Engineer’s primary role is to deliver a Microsoft Azure platform DevOps service to support a broad range of exciting applications. This will include both the in-house delivery of code and data to production, and a governance role where you’ll be working in partnership with 3rd-party service providers to ensure up time, quality and in line with the SDLC.  In this hands-on role, you’ll also contribute directly to the build and deployment activities involved in establishing the new platform then work on the significant pipeline of future development projects.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities listed below are a range of duties performed by the employee and not intended to reflect all duties performed.

• Design and implement operating procedures and processes for Office365, Azure, AzureAD and
  

·         Develop and implement automation strategies using Powershell or .NET applications

·         Build, configure operate cloud applications within Azure and Azure related services

·         Be familiar with best practices for Azure resource management and cost saving measures to prevent overprovisioning

·         Develop reports for KPI’s in cloud infrastructure related to costs, uptime, and performance

·         Migrate on-prem applications to Azure via IaaS VMs or Azure micro-services

·         Be familiar with various Azure service offerings that can replace existing on-prem applications

·         Assist application teams in building and deploying new infrastructure in Azure

·         Collaborate iteratively with subject matter experts to define requirements

·         Help establish engineering best practices and guidelines

·         Must be available to work during regular working hours, Pacific Standard Time

·         Weekly on-call rotation with an interval determined by the number of members on the team

·         Develop and maintain system documentation in relation to the public cloud:

o    Create and update system architecture diagram(s) and system configuration

o    Create and update standard operational procedures

o    Create and manage backup strategies and policies

o    Update system inventory after any post-deployment changes. Maintain up-to-date configuration documents

o    Produce operational documentation for technical staff

o    Place documentation and code in appropriate repositories. Communicate updates to team

o    Update documented issues and incidents regularly

o    Keep team informed about pertinent operational processes

·         General:

o    Assist with standards development and quality improvement

o    Assist with administrative duties such as attending conference calls, equipment tagging and surplus, and storage room cleanup, as needed. Assist helpdesk with escalations of issues as needed

o    Communicate clearly and effectively while contributing as a productive member of the IT team. Work closely with other team members to help them with relevant tasks, show them how to learn new skills, and help resolve emerging problems on different projects

o    Attend relevant meetings, adhere to deadlines, and participate as a vital member to collectively advance team-level objectives

o    Perform all required compliance policies

Qualifications:

·         Minimum of five years of work experience with cloud architecture Azure/AWS

·         Demonstrated experience with/in the following:

o    Containers, micro services and orchestration including Docker, Docker Swarm and AWS ECS

o    Microsoft Visual Studio .Net, .Net Framework, .Net Core, SQL Server, MySQL

o    Configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible

o    AWS DevOps tooling stack (Kinesis, CI/CD, etc.)

o    Networking and Load Balancers, Firewalls, VPCs, VPNs

o    Revision control source code repositories (Git, SVN, Bitbucket)

o    Infrastructure and Application logging and monitoring technologies such as SCOM, New Relic, ELK and OpsGenie

o    Internet standards such as HTTP, HTTPS, Certificates, DNS, FTP, implementation of enterprise applications

o    All aspects of unit testing, performance testing and user acceptance testing

o    Hybrid Cloud-Based application engineering and delivery

·         Strong experience in securing Cloud applications

·         SDLC (Software development Lifecycle)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

·         Ability to work independently and apply sound judgment and reasoning skills to a variety of situations

·         Ability to multi-task and collaborate effectively with other personnel to meet deadlines

·         Strong verbal and written communication, attention to detail, and organizational skills

·         Ability to work within critical deadlines

·         Ability to adjust to rapidly changing priorities and schedules

·         Ability to provide excellent customer service 

·         Azure & Office365 certifications and training are a bonus

·         Familiarity with on-prem and traditional infrastructure management ideal

Work Authorization:

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US for any employer.  Sponsorship is not available for this position.