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3 Months Contract to Hire Role / Only USC and GC
Range - $65 - $90 with full time conversion to $100k - $120kannual
Onsite Location - Parsippany, Nj.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Minimum Qualifications & Competencies:
Range - $65 - $90 with full time conversion to $100k - $120kannual
Onsite Location - Parsippany, Nj.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Continually assist with the baseline design and implementation of Microsoft Azure Cloud technologies and concepts to include IaaS, PaaS, Azure ARM templates, Azure Blueprints, and Azure policies.
- Recommend and build policies for cloud deployments such as location, device based, capacity sizing, governance, or other criteria.
- Help determine tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) for cloud management and monitoring tools.
- Recommend and implement cloud computing environment resource cost management based on capacity management.
- Recommend and implement standards that ensure adherence to security policies and procedures.
- Assist in building incident response procedures for cloud environment.
- Research and investigate cyber threats and security incidents in conjunction with the IT Security team.
- Evaluate and recommend cloud infrastructure resources based on IT project requirements.
- Develop and support standard operating procedures to simplify and streamline IT processes.
- Provide support to assist with connecting monitoring and security tools (SolarWinds/SIEM/SOAR) with cloud environment.
- Understand basic network cloud connectivity in a hybrid cloud environment.
- Assists the Information Security team in monitoring security systems, reviewing logs, and managing information security systems.
- Identify, analyze, and report resource constraints within the cloud environment, using information collected from a variety of sources, to maintain cloud service operations.
- Troubleshoot, diagnose, investigate, and resolve network and infrastructure issues and incidents; Provide Root Cause Analysis support.
Minimum Qualifications & Competencies:
- Experience within Azure cloud infrastructure including areas of sizing, provisioning, monitoring, and capacity management.
- Provide expertise and serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cloud services.
- Work with development & data teams providing cloud resource deployment orchestration, automation, security, and configuration expertise.
- Expertise in monitoring, administering, troubleshooting, and identifying solutions in cloud environments.
- Proficiency in implementing secure infrastructure solutions.
- Ability to translate strategic requirements into enterprise architecture designs.
- Participate in continuous improvement planning for cloud operations, including technology reviews, root cause analysis, action reports analysis, and cloud portfolio review to ensure adequate infrastructure to provide a suitable operating environment(s) for critical applications.
- Expertise implementing cloud backup and disaster recovery solutions.
- Provide general and routine maintenance support including installation, patching, configuration, backups, and updates.
- Expertise implementing virtual infrastructure.
- Solid knowledge of Active Directory, Windows Server OS, VMware, PKI certificate management, and RADIUS authentication.
- Working knowledge of PowerShell scripting
- Ability to interact with a broad cross-section of personnel to gracefully explain and enforce cloud infrastructure requirements and guidance.
- Must possess strong interpersonal, organizational, customer service, and communication skills and an ability to interact effectively with a wide range of users of varying levels of technological expertise.
- Great troubleshooting and problem analysis skills
- Self-motivated with a strong willingness to learn and grow with changing cloud technologies and a fast-paced business environment.
- Drive automation of cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, self-service, Infrastructure-as-Code services, auto-scaling, DevOps deployment, and others.
- Requires occasional work during non-business hours and on weekends.
- Participate in on-call rotation.
- Bachelor's Degree in computer science, a related field or equivalent experience.
- Microsoft Azure certification (plus)
