Azure Cloud Engineer/ Baton Rouge
Motion Recruitment Partners
Position Summary:
Our insurance company is seeking a Cloud Engineer to design and implement Azure architecture, components, and environments. This hybrid role, based in Baton Rouge, requires expertise in managing cloud environments through scripting and coding. The Cloud Engineer will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in cloud architecture best practices, cloud security, and cloud infrastructure monitoring and tuning.
Non-Technical Requirements:
Exceptional attention to detail. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Effective listening and interpersonal abilities. Capable of conveying ideas in both technical and user-friendly language. Ability to prioritize and execute tasks effectively in high-pressure situations. Strong customer service orientation. Technical Requirements:
Experience designing and implementing Azure environments and resources. Proficiency in creating deployment templates for Azure resources. Experience with Azure private endpoints. Ability to document systems and configurations effectively. Expertise in creating and maintaining PowerShell or other scripting languages for environment management. Prior experience in the insurance industry is preferred but not required. Desired Experience:
SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) / DevOps mindset and experience. Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) / Configuration as Code and managing environments via code pipelines. Infrastructure as Code / Scripting / Coding: Demonstrated experience with IaC/Scripting technologies such as Terraform or BICEP (current use of BICEP). ARM Templates. Source Code Management and understanding of GitFlow principles. Preferred experience with deploying IaC code via pipelines/tooling, utilizing YAML and AZ-CLI. State Configuration Management (primarily Windows, Linux is a plus): PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration). Ansible/Chef/Puppet experience is a plus. Intune. Azure Compliance / Policy Management using pipelines (YAML/AZ-CLI), IaC (BICEP/Terraform), or ARM Templates. Azure Monitoring/Logging: Conceptual knowledge of observability platforms, with a preference for Azure experience. Azure Monitor, data source ingestion for logs and metrics, and data tools in Azure Monitor. Experience with Log Aggregation solutions such as Splunk or AZ Sentinel. Utilization of Azure monitoring to support infrastructure sizing and cost management. Azure Networking: Private Link Services, Private Endpoint Services. Network Security (Azure Firewall, Service Firewall, NSG, WAF). Azure Storage Solutions: Management and security of Azure Databases (Az-SQL, Cosmo DB). Storage Accounts (ADLSv2), Data Analytics Solutions (ADF, Synapse). Azure AD and Identity Management: Azure AD (Entra is a plus), Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management. Enterprise Apps/App Registrations, Modern Auth methods (SAML/OAuth 2.0/AADB2C), Graph API. Azure App Services: Management and security of Web Apps, Function Apps, App Service Environments, App Service Plans. Key Vaults, Storage Accounts, Security Products for Web Apps (WAFs). Azure Backup (experience with Azure Site Recovery is a plus).
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Our insurance company is seeking a Cloud Engineer to design and implement Azure architecture, components, and environments. This hybrid role, based in Baton Rouge, requires expertise in managing cloud environments through scripting and coding. The Cloud Engineer will be expected to demonstrate proficiency in cloud architecture best practices, cloud security, and cloud infrastructure monitoring and tuning.
Non-Technical Requirements:
Exceptional attention to detail. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Effective listening and interpersonal abilities. Capable of conveying ideas in both technical and user-friendly language. Ability to prioritize and execute tasks effectively in high-pressure situations. Strong customer service orientation. Technical Requirements:
Experience designing and implementing Azure environments and resources. Proficiency in creating deployment templates for Azure resources. Experience with Azure private endpoints. Ability to document systems and configurations effectively. Expertise in creating and maintaining PowerShell or other scripting languages for environment management. Prior experience in the insurance industry is preferred but not required. Desired Experience:
SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) / DevOps mindset and experience. Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) / Configuration as Code and managing environments via code pipelines. Infrastructure as Code / Scripting / Coding: Demonstrated experience with IaC/Scripting technologies such as Terraform or BICEP (current use of BICEP). ARM Templates. Source Code Management and understanding of GitFlow principles. Preferred experience with deploying IaC code via pipelines/tooling, utilizing YAML and AZ-CLI. State Configuration Management (primarily Windows, Linux is a plus): PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration). Ansible/Chef/Puppet experience is a plus. Intune. Azure Compliance / Policy Management using pipelines (YAML/AZ-CLI), IaC (BICEP/Terraform), or ARM Templates. Azure Monitoring/Logging: Conceptual knowledge of observability platforms, with a preference for Azure experience. Azure Monitor, data source ingestion for logs and metrics, and data tools in Azure Monitor. Experience with Log Aggregation solutions such as Splunk or AZ Sentinel. Utilization of Azure monitoring to support infrastructure sizing and cost management. Azure Networking: Private Link Services, Private Endpoint Services. Network Security (Azure Firewall, Service Firewall, NSG, WAF). Azure Storage Solutions: Management and security of Azure Databases (Az-SQL, Cosmo DB). Storage Accounts (ADLSv2), Data Analytics Solutions (ADF, Synapse). Azure AD and Identity Management: Azure AD (Entra is a plus), Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management. Enterprise Apps/App Registrations, Modern Auth methods (SAML/OAuth 2.0/AADB2C), Graph API. Azure App Services: Management and security of Web Apps, Function Apps, App Service Environments, App Service Plans. Key Vaults, Storage Accounts, Security Products for Web Apps (WAFs). Azure Backup (experience with Azure Site Recovery is a plus).
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