Technical Azure Lead
The Judge Group Inc.

Location: Dallas, TX
Salary: $120,000.00 USD Annually - $170,000.00 USD Annually
Description:
As an Azure Technical Lead based in Dallas, TX, you will report to the Cloud Platform Team Lead and be responsible for mentoring, supporting, and teaching a team of cloud engineers in designing, implementing, and managing our Azure-based cloud infrastructure. As a hands-on Technical Lead, you will consult and contribute to process improvements of IT policies, procedures, tools, security controls, and infrastructure. You will also conduct research and proof of concept activities and provide recommendations for new technologies, techniques, and tools to add value by increasing efficiency while improving service quality.

The Day-to-Day:

• Guide, mentor, and manage a team of cloud engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment.
• Conduct regular team meetings for architecture/design reviews, code reviews, cross-team collaboration opportunities, and training sessions to ensure continuous development and alignment with company goals.
• Aid in designing and managing scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure and automation tooling for routine operation tasks.
• Oversee the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of Azure resources.
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of the Azure environment through proactive monitoring, optimization, and troubleshooting.
• Manage cloud costs and optimize resource usage to achieve cost efficiency.
• Work with solution architects and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls, and adhere to cloud computing best practices.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and the adoption of new technologies to enhance the Azure cloud environment.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest Azure features, tools, and best practices, and disseminate this knowledge to the team.
• Investigate and monitor current-state cloud usage, solutions in use, risks, gaps, and limitations, and recommend solutions, optimizations, and remediation.
• Ensure cloud services and toolsets are deployed with best practices and documentation.

Your Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure cross-platform technology areas, with implementing and maintaining expertise.
• 5+ years of experience building, deploying, and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services.
• Experience building an automated cloud infrastructure across Prod and Non-Prod environments.
• Scripting and automation of builds, workflows, tasks, and other integration aspects.
• Linux and Microsoft Windows server administration.
• Configuration management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolsets including (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, and Chef).

Contact: atunstall@judge.com

This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at www.judge.com

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