Azure Cloud Engineer

Duration : 01/09/2022 to 23/12/2022

Pay rate : £51ph Inside IR35

Technically astute competent with Azure public cloud administration and infrastructure deployment. Team player with a solid understanding of cloud administration and deployment of cloud services (predominately PaaS).

Comfortable reviewing and digesting Terraform/PowerShell scripts and similar IaC artifacts.

Work as part of a multi-skilled team to assist the customer to overcome some immediate issues with cloud deployments. A strong communicator and a self-starter capable of context switching between activities based on urgency and/or demand. Must have an understanding of DevOps principles/modern cloud work flows (pipelines etc).

Onboarding of technical resources of a high enough level to understand, deploy, integrate, and support Azure PaaS resources in AXA XL’s production environment, in support of moving applications to the cloud.

SKILLS:

Delivery expectation is primarily during UK or US business hours (vendor choice) with the expectation of infrequent after-hours or weekend support.

• Manual and script-based changes to existing Azure PaaS resources as directed by AXA XL Architecture teams
• Resource object configuration change analysis (i.e. will the change have a negative impact)
• Execution of change, using existing scripts and manual processes
• Infrastructure support for in-flight application migrations, especially WAF, Azure FW, and application registration setups
• Estimated 20 minor changes per week, such as a manual or scripted resource configuration, or an application registration, running until the end of October
• Manual and script-based deployment of new Azure resources in support of moving applications to the cloud, as directed by AXA XL Architecture teams
• Resource deployment, such as databases, storage accounts, and virtual servers with their appropriate network setups.
• Low level design creation in conjunction with application and architecture teams
• Self-starter with internal customer interfacing skills
• Documentation of change and runbooks
• Estimated 3 concurrent projects until the end of October

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.