Sr. Cloud Engineer - Azure

Tasks

• Develop, operate, and continuously improve the KION Azure Cloud Environment to guarantee system availability and keep services running.
• Assist in configuring and troubleshooting Azure Compute instances, Azure Backup, Azure Storage Monitor, Snapshot, Azure Storage, VNet, Load Balancers, and RBAC.
• Manage the cost and spend of cloud resources utilizing both Microsoft and third-party tools.
• Create and update scripts utilizing PowerShell and Terraform.
• Monitor and analyze occurring failures (IT services, server, container etc.) in depth and solve them.
• Support product teams with knowledge of cloud services.
• Administer and provide upgrades to systems (Windows and Linux servers).
• Develop technical skills in Google Cloud Platform to be the Subject Matter Expert in Azure and Google Cloud Platform long-term.
• Tackle demanding projects on a time-sensitive schedule.
• Configure VM for optimum cost, performance, and security.
• Define change control parameters for cloud resources.
• Monitor customer requests.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of experience with infrastructure and services in public and private cloud environments (Azure is a must, GCP is beneficial).
• Good knowledge of administration of Windows or Linux operating systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and deployment processes (e.g., Ansible, Azure DevOps Pipelines).
• Practical experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and all cloud delivery models (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Knowledge of shell scripting (PowerShell or CLI or Bash) and state-of-the-art Cloud technologies for automation.
• Experience with monitoring or log aggregation tools (e.g., SolarWinds, Azure Monitor) is an advantage.