Job Details

Azure Cloud Architect and DevOps Engineer

• Citizens or Permanent Residents
• Hybrid work reporting: Can report onsite 3 times a week in the Dallas/Plano and area.
• 6 months full time contract to start or full time permanent employment immediately
• Pay Rate: Highly competitive Market rate plus benefits

Summary

Are you passionate about implementing cloud-based enterprise infrastructure? Buchanan Technologies www.buchanan.comis currently looking for a Cloud Engineer who can assist our client with designing, developing, and provisioning cloud-based infrastructure to support our customers.

In this role you will be working to implement cloud-based technology solutions, infrastructure, pipelines, and systems using Azure and ADO, ensuring alignment with documented architecture and established policies and standards.

Cloud Infrastructure & Network Engineering

You will be architecting and implementing SaaS, IaaS and PaaS based solutions in Azure. The ability to develop infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Packer, and ansible will be vital for this role with administrative expertise on both Windows and Linux environments.

Build Engineering & Deployment

Expertise working with source control systems (Git, ADO), implementing automated CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps), manage build labs & runners, optimize build performance, branch management, authoring YAML, and the ability to develop and support deployment solutions for application teams will be vital for this role.

Systems Administrative Expertise

Systems Administrative skills include Entra / Active Directory, databases, SQL, and Power shell scripting expertise is desired. The ability to administer applications and support and troubleshoot difficult level 3 issues for clients is required.

Required Skillsets

• IaaS
  • Azure Solution Architecture & Implementation Expertise including technical design & documentation, & administration Experience (Azure Certifications Preferred). Experience administering and configuring Windows and Linux virtual machines, app services, SQL services, Private Endpoints, AKS, etc.
• IAC
  • Hands-on Infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform and Ansible is a must-have- Real-world experience writing IAC code to describe cloud services and resources.

• Strong technical documentation and technical project management experience is a must-have for this role

  . (development of VISIO diagrams, detailed tech specs, project plans, etc.)
• IT Operations Experience – Patching, Certificate Management, Backups, Monitoring, ITSM, CMDB, and general IT Operations & support experience in Azure.
• Network implementation and troubleshooting – Experience with VNETs/VPCs, Subnets, Firewalls, DNS, VPN's, WANs, Express Route, CDN's, Gateways, and common network appliances.
• Observability
  • Experience using monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor & Dashboard, CloudWatch, and Data Dog as well as configuring effective alerts.
• Disaster Recovery
  • Experience implementing and administering backup tools such as Comvault, Rubrik, Azure Backup, and Azure Site Recovery.
• Configuration Management
  • Configuration and management of Virtual Machines using Terraform, Packer & Ansible
• Source Control
  • Expertise managing source control systems and knowledge of GIT Command line Syntax (merge, rebase, reset, etc.)
• CI/CD - Expertise developing automated CI/CD pipelines in an enterprise environment.
• Infrastructure Scripting - Ability to develop fully automated playbooks and solutions using BASH, MSBUILD, YAML, PowerShell, and other automation tools.
• Debugging
  • Strong debugging and investigative skills with the capability to investigate and resolve networking issues, build breaks and code merge issues.
• Developer Support
  • The capability to support developers using common desktop tools and IDEs such as Visual Studio and Eclipse
• Cyber Security
  • Understanding of information security principles & frameworks, best practices, and experience patching and hardening endpoints and resources.

Desired Skillsets (Nice-to-have)

• Certified Administration experience with Azure, GitHub, ADO, SCCM, In-Tune, Control Tower, Lighthouse, CrowdStrike, Data Dog, Comvault, and common Cloud & DevOps tools.
• Containerization
  • Kubernetes Orchestration/Docker provisioning, configuration, and management. Ability to develop custom automation and packaging solutions for applications (docker composure projects, etc.) is valued.
• Certified Azure Architecture & Administration Expertise
• Hands-on Development Experience in C# / .NET / Python & NODE with a wide range of projects.
• Database tuning experience
• Build Engineering - Broad knowledge of how to build various project types (Terraform projects, C# Console Apps, .NET Core Apps, Node JS Projects, Java Code, Database Projects, SSIS ETL Projects, Docker Composure Project Builds, etc.)
• Experience working in Project-based engagement is preferred with the ability to interface with client stakeholders. Ideal candidate will show an aptitude for customer service and have a consultative mindset.