contract cloud platform engineer #ikr

Role and responsibilities

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to design, deploy, and maintain Azure-based solutions.
• Utilize Bicep and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code to automate the provisioning and management of Azureresources.
• Manage YAML configurations for various deployment processes.
• Deploy and manage monitoring metrics and logging capabilities across systems and applications.
• Championing innovation through containerization and Kubernetes.
• Collaborate with the security team to implement and enforce security best practices across Azure environments.
• Apply industry standards and best practices to ensure system and application security.
• Design, implement, and optimize Azure networking solutions, ensuring high performance, availability, and security.
• Take ownership and be a central point of contact for any reported issues, ensuring communication is both regular and professional.
• Promote and foster a collaborative culture, Platform Engineering team is engrained into all facets of the Cloud Landscape
• Contribute to the maintenance and grooming of the backlog for the Platform engineering delivery workstream.
• Design and build cloud infrastructure for high availability, disaster recovery and business continuity while ensuring reliability, elasticity, and security.
• Deliver agile and innovative cloud solutions that take advantage of technological advances to allow for cost reduction, standardisation, and commoditisation.
• Support the delivery of new applications and upgrades through cloud enablement, orchestration, and automation.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of processes and technology standards across the cloud infrastructure and security domains.
• Collaborate with relevant teams to deliver on-going cloud infrastructure enhancements.
• Keep abreast of the latest advances in cloud platforms and services.
• On-board new cloud technologies/services and challenge existing designs or implementations.
• Contribute to threat prevention and remediation efforts through continual monitoring, facilitating penetration testing, vulnerability assessments and log analysis.
• Operate within a change-controlled environment and ensure that deployments are conducted in accordance with relevant release procedures.
• Participate in a wide variety of global projects, improvements, and control activities to enable growth in business footprint, innovation, and digital transformation.
• Share knowledge and expertise with others, participate in show and tells, coaching and mentoring peers as required.
• Occasional work outside of normal business hours may be required at times, for major incidents or planned maintenance.
• Any other ad-hoc duties as assigned by supervisor

Requirements:

·      Proven experience as an Azure Platform Engineer or similar role ie DevOps Engineer.

·      Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, ARM or Terraform.

·      Experience with Azure DevOps asa CICD tool, able to maintain pipeline repos spanning across multiple
projects.

·      Proficient in managing YAMLconfigurations for deployment processes.

·      In-depth knowledge of Azure networking, including VNet, Subnet, ExpressRoute, and VPN configurations.

·    High understanding of cloud infrastructure designs, patterns, and best practices. Experience with
Microsoft 365, Azure PaaS and IaaS, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), test-driven development, and automated CI/CD.

·      Proficiency in PowerShell scripting for automation and configuration management.

·      Solid understanding of Azure Active Directory, including identity and access management.

·      Experience with containerization tools such as Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.

·      Experience with cloud-focussed logging and monitoring tools (preferably using Azure Monitor with
Application Insights and Log Analytics).

·      Awareness of security control techniques, such as access controls, defence in depth, security-shift-left etc., and how they can be applied in cloud-based systems as well as traditional IT environments.

·      Technical proficiency with scripting and automation (using PowerShell and/or Python).

·      Experience with Microsoft Intune for endpoint management.

·      Knowledge of ITIL framework, certification an advantage.

·      Experience using ITSM tools (Jira,ServiceNow, Remedy etc.)

·      Experience with software-defined networking and security controls (SD-WAN/SASE).

·      Experience with desktop-as-a-service and modern management (especially Azure Virtual Desktop and Microsoft Endpoint Manager).

·      Experience with security information and event management (preferably using Azure Sentinel).

·      Experience with Azure SQL (proficiency in SQL assumed).

·      DevSecOps certification(s).

·      Azure certification(s).

·      Experience with Jiraautomation.

·      Experience with agile delivery methodologies (e.g., SCRUM or Kanban).

·      Domain knowledge of energy physical and financial commodities and derivatives.

Interested applicants, please email your resume to Karin Chan Wei Kien

Email: [email protected]

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