Azure Cloud Automation Engineer

Key Responsibilities

Engineering Excellence

• Responsible for designing, building, and optimizing the automation processes for provisioning infrastructure and applications – via infrastructure-as-code
• Standardize and streamline build and release pipelines – CICD
• Configure and administer platforms and services
• Support operational activities by ensuring platforms and infra for pipelines are optimal, recoverable, and easily scalable to meet the capacity demands
• Provide incident management oversight – root cause analysis, stakeholder communications, post-mortems, and manage preventative measures and resolutions
• Drive improvements in operational efficiency for all services
• Actively involved in deployments of platform and pipeline artefacts
• Ensure security, high availability, and disaster recovery are always front of mind
• Continuous monitoring of cost and risk – with a view to reducing and mitigating
• Ensure production and non-production environments stay in sync through the alignment of stable standards, code and configurations
• Identify relevant emerging trends and build compelling cases for adoption e.G. tool selection
• Involved in PoCs, prototypes and innovation spikes to seek directional outcomes

Capabilities and Experience

Essential Experience

knowledge in Cloud infrastructure and networking principles (e.G. Azure PaaS, IaaS)

considerations for self-healing and fault-tolerant methods to minimize manual intervention and downtime

Desirable Experience