Job ID :
30503
Company :
Internal Postings
Location :
Kansas City, MO
Type :
Contract
Duration :
12 Months
Salary :
DOE
Status :
Active
Openings :
1
Posted :
07 Apr 2021
Job Seekers, Please send resumes to resumes@hireitpeople.com

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for development, implementation, operation improvement and debug cloud environments in Azure and Cloud Management Platform and orchestration tools.
  • Performs engineering design evaluations for new environment builds
  • Implement and improve possible automations for cloud environments
  • Implementation of industry standard security practices during implementation and maintain it throughout the lifecycle.
  • Has knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures through automation tools. Relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the functions of the job.
  • The role is also expected to leverage prior knowledge and experience with the Azure automation framework to perform automation of build and deployment activities.
  • This individual will consult with other team members and use prior expertise with AWS/Azure to extend an existing framework of automation across new and existing application environments.
  • Engage with the end users to understand the requirements and should be able to translate it
  • Creating business cases for transformation and modernization, including analysis of both total cost of ownership and potential cost and revenue impacts of the transformation
  • Process analysis and design, with a focus on identifying technology-driven improvements to core enterprise processes
  • Get and build knowledge of the market for cloud services, enterprise applications, business process management, advanced analytics, and integration software
  • Work with team to Develop alternate technology solutions blueprint (cloud-based computing, storage, etc.) to build case for legacy technology modernization
  • Develop recommendations for operating model development to implement transformation initiatives

Skill/ Competency Requirements:

  • Hands-on experience on Azure Automations using ARM templates
  • At least 1-2 years experience on working on Azure platform services (IaaS, PaaS), ASR with 5+ years of experience of hard-core infrastructure development and implementation
  • In depth knowledge of key Azure services - VM, Storage, Azure SQL, VNet, Redis Cache, Resource Manager, Load Balancer, Firewall, Azure Diagnostics/ OMS, Traffic Manager, Azure CDN, Azure Notification Hubs, Azure Identity and Access Management, Infrastructure as Code etc.
  • In-depth knowledge of design, implementation, engineering, automation and DevOps implementation, service operation and service improvement initiatives
  • On premise / other cloud providers to Azure cloud migration using cloud migration tools like ASR/Cloud Endure etc.
  • Cloud strategy assessment and definition
  • Key Skills: CI and CD using Jenkins, Ansible, Python, Shell scripting, Change management, Azure Cloud knowledge and prod support activities
  • At least 1-2 years of experience using DevOps Tools, Python, Dockers
  • Skillsets: - Knowledge about CI and CD using GIT, Jenkins, Ansible, JIRA ..etc
  • Understanding and experience on handling of servers like IIS, Tomcat, Apache
  • Ability to quickly establish credibility and trustworthiness within key executive stakeholders in client organization.
  • Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills

Preferred:

  • Understand Agile methodologies and software development lifecycle process.
  • Understanding of container technology and container orchestration platforms.
  • Knowledge of best practices and market trends pertaining to Cloud and overall industry to provide thought leadership (seminars, whitepapers etc.,) and mentor team to build necessary competency
  • Advise the customer executives on their cloud strategy roadmap, improvements, alignment and further improvements.
  • Understanding Azure partner ecosystems
  • Experience assessing clients workloads and technology landscape for Cloud suitability, develop business case and Cloud adoption roadmap
  • Knowledge of leading Cloud Management Platform and orchestration tools
  • Knowledge of evaluating the Azure hosting consumption charges and optimization of the charges
  • Experience in defining new architectures and ability to drive project from architecture standpoint
  • Cloud Industry trends and Azure vs other cloud platform feature capabilities
  • Experience in Managing delivery in Global Delivery Model with Onsite (client site)/ offshore resources
  • Understanding of UNIX Operating system and adept in any of the scripting languages like shell, awk, perl etc.
  • Ability to quickly produce PowerPoint slides which are both content rich, succinct and visually appealing

Additional skills:

Besides the professional qualifications of the candidates we place great importance in addition to various forms personality profile. These include:

  • High analytical skills
  • A high degree of initiative and flexibility
  • High customer orientation
  • High quality awareness
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills