We have partnered with our client in their search for a Consulting SRE with proven industry success to provide leadership for several cloud migration project initiatives.
Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will help migrate Analytics environments from on-premises data centers to Microsoft Azure. Analytics users will be heavily utilizing Azure Machine Learning, Databricks, and Azure Data factory. The migration also involves a transition to DevOps practices, agile support and process automation. This role requires the ability to understand business needs and technical solution options, provide evidence-backed design input, communicate effectively with audiences of varying technical depth, influence decision-making, implement solutions consistent with best practices, and verify and effectively maintain those solutions, whilst operating within a fast-paced environment driving multiple initiatives in parallel.
• Ensuring migration of Analytics users from on-prem data centers to Microsoft Azure are successful
- Ensuring maturation of Analytics development processes over time through flexibility and automation
- Consulting and providing expertise on technical solution options, and contributing to decision-making discussions in areas such as serverless computing, containerized workloads, and big data
- Remaining up-to-date on internal and industry-wide best practices related to those solutions
- Evangelizing best practices for cloud architecture and the key pillars of cloud application operations
- Developing and ensuring delivery of resilient infrastructure designs using Infrastructure-as-Code
- Performing knowledge transfer for SRE, Application and Support team resources when needed
- Diagnosing and resolving potentially complex infrastructure, integration, and application issues
- Improving standardization and automation within maturing processes to enhance efficiency
- Performance testing and tuning to ensure production workloads are supported
- Monitoring and supporting critical business applications to ensure SLAs are met
- Understanding and implementing defensive, detective and corrective controls
- Assisting in the development and/or implementation of comprehensive information security procedures and practices to reduce attack surfaces and comply with best practices
- Augmenting project and systems documentation for technical and non-technical audiences
Skills Required:
- Leadership/design of application and/or infrastructure migration projects from on-prem to cloud
- Proven expert in partnering and leading technology resources in solving complex business needs
- Cloud architecture design and implementation to solve key business needs and meet team goals
- Experience with Azure Machine Learning required
- Experience with Databricks and Azure Data Factory highly desired
- Experience with Terraform
- Experience with GitHub Actions
- Deep knowledge of Azure Networking including private endpoints, private DNS zones, peerings, NSG rules, route tables, and VNETs.
- Experience with Azure Function Apps
- Knowledge of IaaS in Azure
- Understanding of Azure Active Directory including RBAC, service principals, managed identities
- Expertise in a scripting language, either PowerShell or Bash.
Education & Work Experience:
- 7+ years professional experience, including demonstrable success in project leadership roles
- 5+ years professional experience in DevOps or SRE roles on a major cloud platform
- BSc+ in Engineering/Computer Science/IT, advanced degree preferred
- Industry certification for Cloud Developers/Architects (Prefer Azure; Related: AWS, GCP)
