Sr. Technology Consultant - Hosting

Posted Friday, April 8, 2022 at 4:00 AM Y ou’ll be part of a global team supporting multiple SaaS environments that help make the world a safer place. We use Azure as our core, but host on multiple platforms due to specific needs and our rapid pace of development and acquisition. The environment is rapidly changing from IaaS to PaaS to server less. So you’ll need to both apply your current skillsets and learn new things on a daily basis to push the business forward. While you’ll ultimately need a diversity of expert level skills to succeed, having deep understanding and experience in just a couple of areas (monitoring, scripting, automation tools, etc) may just get you in the door to a great career. Key Responsibilities Support application infrastructure to ensure platform is optimized for performance and reliability. Build and maintain supporting infrastructure for cloud environments and applications. Use wide range of Azure resources to implement scalable, reliable and cost-efficient services. Work side by side with your engineers, guiding critical projects, using your subject matter expertise to solve complex problems. Perform and automate system administration services including installation, configuration, maintenance, and disaster recovery Identify system level issues related to OS configuration and virtual hardware bottlenecks. Automation, auditing, and other tooling for security, compliance, and resource usage - Monitor and improve processes for all deployments. Take ownership of operational excellence to establish and maintain business focused KPI’s. Use these metrics not only as a basis for positive transformation, but also as a visible representation of your team’s success. Skills and Experience Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Ability to communicate effectively with multiple disciplines. Strong analytical skills with the ability to drive reliability improvements. Proven success managing and optimizing CI/CD for an Azure-based SaaS application. Hands-on-experience with common DevOps tools, including Azure DevOps. Strong scripting skills with at least PowerShell or Bash. Experience with configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Terraform. Working knowledge of version control/source code management tools. Experience working in an agile software development life cycle. Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL server. Strong knowledge of web server configuration and management like IIS or Tomcat. Working knowledge of local and wide area networking and associated technologies, e.g. switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs. Strong understanding of security principles. Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar area of study. Preferred experience Cloud-based networking (VNets, App gateways, etc) Strong understanding of CI/CD. System or Network Engineering Monitoring (New Relic, LogEntries, Rapid7, etc) PaaS (WebApps, Azure SQL, etc) Containers/Kubernetes. Git, Jenkins, Octopus, ARM, Ansible, Azure CLI or similar. Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Perl, PowerShell or similar. #spheraIT #LI-ES1 #LI-Remote