Senior Cloud Engineer - Azure

Job Purpose/summary

The Senior Cloud Engineer role is responsible for ensuring that teams are supported on their journey to managed cloud. You will work on solution designs for cloud components and be responsible for the deployment and ongoing support.

You will ensure the products run optimally, securely with a focus on ensuring that the solution can meet the uptime and availability SLA’s.

Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring that technologies used within the onboarded solutions are supportable and meet Maersk’s architectural standards.
• Responsible for reviewing the solution architecture to ensure that it meets the Well Architected Framework model
• Ensuring that SOP’s and knowledge articles exist for all deployed technologies.
• Provide consultancy and advise on best practices for PaaS offerings.
• Working with the product teams to understand their pain points, design and build cloud solutions using a variety of Iaas and PaaS.
• Ensure that solutions are supportable in a scalable way without significant human intervention.
• Responsible for the availability and performance of solutions hosted in public cloud
• Develop custom dashboards and alerts for cloud based systems
• Automate the deployment of new components using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, python and Powershell
• Maintain a wide depth and breadth of PaaS and IaaS knowledge across the Azure and AWS estate.
• Document, communicate and log follow up actions for later triage, prioritisation and action to avoid reoccurrences.
• Manage IAC pipelines
• Review and improve infrastructure as code pipelines.
• Maintain awareness of the forward schedule of change and changes actively in play or recently completed such that this awareness can be leveraged in the event of an incident occurring on the same or impacted platforms.
• Assist in the creation of high quality documentation in accordance to the organisation’s standards
• Carry out risk assessment and reporting.
• Serve as an Incident Management escalation point when called upon.

Primary stakeholders

• Customers within Maersk who consume or are considering consuming public cloud services.
• Service Management
• BAU Support teams

Required experience

• 8 years demonstrable expertise in Azure PaaS & IaaS components including security
• 2+ years building IaC pipelines using Terraform
• 5+ years demonstrable IT Infrastructure knowledge across a wide range of technologies.
• 3+years Powershell or python scripting
• 3+ years experience working with incidents in a mission critical environment.
• 3+ years working knowledge and experience of 3rd line support

Technical skills

• Will have one or more of the following Azure certifications

• Azure Administrator Associate
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

• Building IaC pipelines using Terraform and github
• Expertise with either Powershell or Python
• Capability to troubleshoot in a Cloud environment.
• Graph Query (Kusto)
• Understanding of application topologies and how applications could and should be scaled for demand.
• Broad knowledge of IT Operations in an enterprise environment.
• Good understanding of Linux technologies

Business skills

• Excellent written and verbal English
• Collaboration and Teamwork essential
• Ability to multi-task
• Strong analytical skills
• Stakeholder management

Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race, colour, gender, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or parental leave, veteran status, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.

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