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Our direct client, a leading global firm, is expanding its cloud-based infrastructure operations team. Offering a competitive salary, bonus, and strong career growth potential, they seek an experienced engineer proficient in Windows Server Engineering and Azure Engineering to maintain and evolve core business applications worldwide, with a focus on triaging incidents and managing end-to-end solutions. This role entails a 70% focus on server operations and 30% on projects, with responsibilities including anticipating, analyzing, and solving operational incidents while effectively communicating with stakeholders. As a Senior member of the global server operations team, you will provide support across multiple regions in Microsoft Azure, serving as an escalation point and mentoring other engineers, while collaborating closely with various teams within the organization. Approachability and leadership are key traits for success in this role.

As part of providing support to a global environment, you will be part of an On-Call rotation that leverages several engineers in their respective US and European time zones.

This is a hybrid office-based position located out of our Stamford, CT (preferable) or Charlotte, NC location. 

• Remote working days are Monday and Fridays. 
• In-office days are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. 

Competencies and Requirements:

• 5+ years hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud offerings in a system engineering and operations capacity.  Ability to design and implement Azure native solutions to reduce the need for 3^rd party toolsets.
• 7+ years of Production Server Engineering and Operational support in a global environment that is predominately Windows with exposure to various versions of Linux.  
• Strong ability to create and maintain scripts, utilizing toolsets/languages such as PowerShell, YAML, KQL, bash, JSON, Ansible, to automate manual processes.
• Experience deploying cloud resources utilizing Infrastructure as Code technology (Terraform). 

• Experience working in an Azure DevOps/DevSecOps environment and knowledge supporting and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal) to both a technical/non-technical audience. 

Nice to have qualifications:

• Experience managing an Active Directory environment (DHCP, DNS, GPO, DFS)
• Experience designing and implementing Azure Monitor to provide the appropriate level of proactive alerting to ensure environmental uptime.          
• Experience with Container support and orchestration within a public cloud (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).
• Ability to liase with the architecture team to present new ideas, design a solution and see it through to implementation.
• Prior experience defining and/or operating disaster recovery plans.
• Ability to Mentor other system engineers on core support and triage approach improving overall team development and the quality of delivered IT services.
• Previous experience working with Security and Compliance teams to provide evidence demonstrating compliance with operational controls.
• Ability to identify areas of inefficiency, propose and implement standards and automations to reduce complexity, improving the overall framework.
• Understand and control the operational costs associated with operating in a Microsoft Azure environment.
• Ability to demonstrate strong time management and prioritization skills within a dynamic environment. 
• Demonstrate strong Attention to Detail and a customer-centric mindset to understand requirements and follow established controls within the environment.   
• Ability to create and maintain configuration, operational and control documents.
• Possess a Growth Mindset, keen to learning and exploring.

Immediate interview and hire – send resume today for immediate consideration!  
 Job ID: 5206