Azure Automation Engineer

Azure Automation Engineer

Location: North Quincy, MA

Who we are looking for

A key member Azure Platform engineering team under our Cloud Center of Excellence(CCoE) ; you will be responsible to drive design and implementation of best in class Azure infrastructure to support State Street's security, governance, and workload requirements. We are looking for a engineering focused and experienced Azure developer with strong grounding on Azure cloud concepts, principles, Infrastructure as Code/Terraform and is able design and implement robust and automated solutions..

What you will be responsible for

As an Azure developer you will

• Design and build robust, scalable and secure technical solutions on the Azure Cloud
• Work with platform architects to define components responsibilities, plan components evolution, and ensure components will meet platform needs.
• Will be responsible for service enablement on Azure based on use case requirements
• Develop scripts to automate the deployment of resource stacks and associated configurations
• Utilize native Azure services to meet the firm's technology and resiliency requirements
• Drive Identity and access and configuration management, and monitoring strategy for Azure
• Work with software testers to ensure the system supports both automated and manual test needs.
• will closely collaborate with software development leads to understand workload requirements and guide them to the best leverage of cloud services, optimizing for performance, cost and architectural flexibility
• Create automation scripts for all phases of SDLC
• Troubleshooting and resolving issues reported by monitoring systems and submitted through the ticketing system of fully documented issues, actions taken, and steps for resolution
• Performing other tasks as defined, planned, and approved by team lead
• What we value
• These skills will help you succeed in this role
• Solid working experience on Azure IAAS for enterprise enablement
• Automation focused and engineering mind set
• Experience with design and development of solutions across on-prem and the cloud for large enterprises
• Strong understanding of cloud native design patterns and DevOps principles (Infrastructure as Code)
• Openness and ability to learn new skills and technologies in a fast-paced environment.
• Self motivated and passionate individual Team player
• Ability to effectively communicate ideas and escalate issues across teams in a timely manner

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5 + years of IT experience in a hands on role with 3+ years of experience designing and supporting Azure environments
• Deep understanding of Microsoft Azure IAAS, PAAS and SAAS solutions alongwith with cloud native design patterns and DevOps principles (Infrastructure as Code)
• Appropriate certifications are strongly preferred, demonstrating an understanding of core infrastructure concepts as well as data and/or DevOps principles
• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies with demonstrated hands-on experience in one or more of the following domains:
• Core IaaS: Compute, Storage, Networking, High Availability
• Azure PaaS Services: Azure Kubernetes Service, Event Hub etc
• Data Platform and Bigdata: SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, , Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Factory / Data Bricks
• Strong programming and scripting background in languages such as shell scripts, python, Java etc.
• Experience in designing, coding and deploying Terraform and/or ARM templates
• Demonstrated experience in full stack automation and Azure service enablement
• Experience with developing solutions on managed services such as AAD, AKS, COSMOS etc.
• Ability to develop and document deliverables compliant with established company design control and regulatory statutes
• Experience with Azure Governance and Best Practices (Azure Policy, Role Based Access Control, Networking Architectures, CSA's CCM, Cost Management controls, etc.)
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.
• Authentication Protocols in Azure, Windows and Linux
• SSL communication
• Automated unit and integration testing
• Financial services or regulated industry experience a huge plus