Azure Senior Cloud Engineer

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Azure Senior Cloud Engineer- six month contract-to-hire REMOTE opportunity
Client is one of the fastest growing in their industry AND has been recognized as a BEST PLACES TO WORK by multiple publications. Also recognized for Healthiest Workplaces.
100% employer paid benefit premiums including medical, dental, vision, short-term disability, longterm disability, and life insurance. Also, 401K w/match; gym membership and much more! (for employees)
Paid certifications & training (for employees)
100% Remote w/minimal travel
As position is contract-to-hire ONLY, We are only considering those that would NOT require current or future visa sponsorship: USC, GC, GC-EAD primarily (no H1b, CPT or OPT)
MUST HAVE - Outgoing, friendly and team-oriented personality dynamics. Client doesn't hire prima-donnas, know it alls, or difficult personalities
Client in Midwest. Team is remote and nationwide.
Required
10 years Engineering with significant Azure Cloud Engineering expertise
MUST HAVE EITHER:
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert OR
Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
Architecting, Solutioning, Deploying & Automating cloud based application environments - 5 years
Azure Cloud Engineering - 4 years
Infrastructure, database, and networking architecture for highly available, Internet- scale applications - Required
Migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud - Required
Cloud Security - Required
Web Services - Required
API - Required
REST - Required
RPC - Required
GitOps - Required
CI/CD stacks and centralized/distributed subversion systems (Git, TFVC etc.) - Required
Containerization - Required
Orchestration - Required
Docker / DockerSwarm - Required
Kubernetes, AKS / ECS or AWS Fargate - Required
Networking and internet protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, & distributed networks - Strong knowledge required
SQL and NoSQL, and related data stores such as Postgres, MongoDB - Required
Bash or Powershell scripting - Required
Automation (IaC) & configuration management tools: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, ARM Templates, Azure Blueprints or Ansible - Required
Advanced System Administration experience with Windows or Linux (Server 2012R2, 2016, 2019, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat) - Required
Experience delivering hands-on workshops introducing client companies to modern development and deployment practicum Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker containers, and Kubernetes - Big Plus
Experience transforming client companies' tech stacks to cloud-native, microservice Kubernetes
systems w/ integrated CI/CD Azure DevOps pipelines utilizing Helm for deployment - Big Plus
Python, Go, .NET Framework or Core - Highly Preferred
Migrating or building Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, ELT pipelines, Databricks and ML/AI - Highly Preferred
MUST HAVE - 4 year college degree in Computer Science or related Engineering / Math field
MUST HAVE - Excellent communication skills and ability to work with external customers and internal teams
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