Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure) Location: Seattle, WA Duration: Contract

Visa: GC or Citizen only

Basic Qualifications:

Qualified senior level applicants should be fluid in all major industry forms of cloud services: Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, OpenStack, etc.

7+ years of experience in developing infrastructure as code for automating provisioning, deployment and monitoring solutions deployed on the public cloud (such as Azure or AWS)

10+ years of experience working in Operations, Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability in a medium to large company.

Strong experience with virtualization technologies, in particular VMWare, KVM, etc.

Strong experience with containerization tools such as Docker, LXC, etc.

Strong experience with Configuration Management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, SaltStack

Strong code/scripting skills

Experience working with complex network topologies and hardware

A track record of building tools and services with high reliability and scalability.

Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills

Essential Duties And Responsibilities:

Automate end-to-end infrastructure and workflows using best-of-breed, cloud-native technologies (APIs) to build an elastic infrastructure and platform used to power provisioning, deployment, scaling and monitoring.

Build microservices that are highly available and fault tolerant

Partner with various engineering teams to transform concepts and requirements into services and tools

Quickly prototype ideas to prove or disprove their merits

Share knowledge, experience and best practices with the team

What You Bring To The Team:

We are looking for candidates who are passionate about automating development and production environments, owning a service from front to back, and love the challenge of working in highly distributed and dynamic Hybrid Cloud environment

Hard working lazy person, you have automated your pet feeder

A great collaborator whom strong developers, engineers, and architects on the teams want to work with