Senior Azure Cloud Engineer - Cape Town, South Africa - HuntWave Technologies

Description

Our Client is looking for a Microsoft Azure Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our team. Seeking a candidate with good knowledge on how to build modern, robust, and scalable applications in Microsoft Azure.
The Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for the design, migration, development and implementation of efficient applications and services for the Azure Platform. This is a technical Infrastructure focused role, you will be accountable for the many facets of our cloud implementation.

Required Experience:

5-8 years experience in the following areas:

• Deep technical experience in infrastructure design, build and deployment, networking, connectivity, storage, virtualisation and identity.
• Implementation of Azure networking for enterprise organisations.
• Experience building and deploying resilient Azure cloud architectures.
• Well versed in Linux and cloud native technologies.
• Experienced in the use of Azure platform services to create born in the cloud PaaS solutions.
• Experience building and deploying Azure resources using IaC.
• Experience with the Azure CLI, PowerShell/Azure PowerShell and the Azure Portal.
• Experience with configuration management and automation technologies such as bicep.
• Creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps (VSTS) to deploy both infrastructure and applications.
• Experience working with or using Azure technologies such as virtual machines, blob, queues, tables, Cloud Services, web apps, functions apps, Azure Active Directory, Virtual Networks, Web application firewalls, scale sets etc.
• Experience with observability and monitoring including application insights, dashboards and azure monitor.

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelors degree in computer science or other applicable field.
• ISO 27001 compliance
• Security and firewall certifications
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for director level, cloud engineering and architecture stakeholder meetings.
• Ability to facilitate the process of gathering requirements and providing alternative cloud infrastructure architecture options.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for director level, cloud engineering and architecture stakeholder meetings.
• Ability to facilitate the process of gathering requirements and providing alternative cloud infrastructure architecture options.

Preferred Technical Experience:

• Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Azure Entra and RBAC, Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Azure Backup, Azure App Services, Azure Storage, Azure SQL Managed instances, Devops, key vaults, Azure AI services.
• Bash experience.
• Containerisation using Azure Container Environment.
• Experience with serverless deployment, maintenance and associated tool chain.
• Working knowledge of ITIL disciplines.
• Ability to maximize knowledge transfer through the production of high quality process documentation.
• Strong adoption of automation philosophies.
• Delivery focused with the ability to drive tasks forward and meet demanding deadlines.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong problem investigation and diagnosis skills.
• The ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of people internally and externally.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary offered.
• Remote Working Conditions- Cape Town preferable.
• Wellness perks.
• Opportunities for career growth and development within the company.
• Work-Life Balance is prioritised.
• Diverse tech stack.