Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Department: 508 Production Operations

Location: Riga, Latvia

Compensation: €4,500 - €5,500 / month

Description

EIS is a multi-cloud support company. Azure is one of the main Public Cloud Hosting providers EIS use for the deployment of Insurance platform.

The Azure Infrastructure Engineer (CloudOps) will be responsible for the design, migration, development, and implementation of Azure infrastructure components and their automated provisioning and configuration for efficient EIS applications and services deployments on Azure Cloud. This is a technical Infrastructure focused role, you will be accountable for the many facets of EIS clients cloud implementations. The Azure Infrastructure Engineer will be working with a team of highly talented software development professionals and will be responsible for the support and development of new processes and tools which ensures the successful and effective integration of fully functional software working products.

Azure Infrastructure Engineer (DevOps) is cooperating with other engineers: CICD engineers, Developers, QAs, Cloud and Application Architects, Project Managers.

Key Responsibilities

Deep technical experience in infrastructure design, build and deployment, including private and public cloud, networking, connectivity, storage, virtualization and identity management
Keep infrastructure as code (IaC) model for Cloud infrastructure support
Keep Software setup using Ansible or templates support
Collaborating with development teams during product implementation
Constantly challenge the existing practices to propose improvements
Implementation of Azure networking for enterprise organizations
Build of hybrid environments to span existing customer networks and Azure
Securing, managing and monitoring Azure environments

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, Azure Active Directory, AD Connect, Azure Monitor, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Azure App Services, Azure Storage, Azure PostgreSQL Flexible servers, Azure SQL Managed Instances
Strong experience in Azure PAM and DLP (Data Leak Prevention) technologies in Azure
Experience with one of the coding languages for scripting: e.g. Bash, Python
Understand internet routing protocols and switched environments
Have good knowledge of network administration, VPN/IPSec
Extensive experience with Git and source code management best practices
Experience building and deploying Azure resources using IaC - Terraform
Experience Azure AKS
Good Linux OS administration knowledge and experience
Experience with Azure monitoring
An open mind and proactive approach to any obstacles we may face
Experience with Ansible

Bonus points if you have:

Experience with SQL and non-SQL databases
Experience working with Docker - building, maintaining, and executing Docker images
Experience with Azure CLI or Azure ARM
DevSecOps experience
Some history of IT community work - conferences, meetups etc.
Mentoring or team-leading experience
Understanding of logging tools (ELK)
Any IT/Clouds certifications
Kubernetes system architecture knowledge and Helm deployment

On-Call Duty:

Participate in a rotating on-call schedule to provide support outside of regular business hours.
Respond to critical incidents and service outages promptly and effectively.
Work with the team to implement preventative measures and minimize downtime.
Provide support for urgent issues that arise in the cloud infrastructure during on-call periods.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master’s degree preferred).
Azure Administrator Associate or higher Azure certificate.
Experience building and deploying Azure resources using IaC - Terraform.
Proven experience with Azure services
Proven experience and strong understanding of cloud networking including Subscriptions, VNets, security groups, load balancer design, VPN.
Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices.
Experience in designing and implementing scalable and highly available cloud architectures.
Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Preferred Skills:

Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools such as CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Azure Monitor, ELK Stack, DataDog or similar.

Job Benefits

Work with top talent and great colleagues who are industry and technology experts. Operate in a Scaled Agile environment, diverse, multicultural and cross-functional teams
We are a global and modern software product company building world-class Enterprise InsurtTech Product powered by leading-edge technologies (microservices, reactive, cloud, continuous delivery)
We can offer ownership to our employees- from being able to make decisions that impact the growth of the company, to giving stock options
We offer freedom - build from building your career path through development programs and exciting global mobility opportunities (we have a global culture)
Attractive compensation packages (includes merit-based increase and stock options)
Health insurance, mobile device with conversation limit, home office set up one-time compensation
We work with the newest Apple Macbooks

*Please note that we will be proceeding only with those applications that have valid working permits in the location stated in the vacancy description.

Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer

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