Senior Cloud Engineer

Company: H&R Block
Location: Kansas City
Posted on: April 9, 2021

Job Description:

What you'll do... --- Play a key engineering role in the enterprise adoption of Azure Public Cloud offerings (Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), PaaS SQL, Cosmos, Application Service Environment (ASE), Service Bus, SignalR, Redis, IaaS VMs, etc).--- Stay ahead of the Microsoft Azure product lifecycle for new and existing PaaS offerings by performing proof of concept and other efforts to vet new technology.--- Contribute to engineering efforts in Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines that leverage Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates and modules. Further advance automation efforts towards delivery of an enterprise self-service cloud resource provisioning solution to be used by Enterprise DevOps teams.--- Design, deploy, manage and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on Microsoft Azure Cloud--- Automate deployment, configuration, monitoring, and ongoing support tasks for Cloud Environments, Operating Systems - RedHat Linux, Microsoft Windows Server--- Work directly with App/Dev teams to further automate infrastructure build and app deployments--- Scale infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing seasonal demand--- Work closely with App/Dev in the adoption of new MS Azure Cloud features and services, including execution of technology proof of concepts, pilots and production deployments--- Help lead incorporation of DevOps into daily engineering and operations--- Develop and improve operational practices and procedures--- Effectively coordinate support escalation communication; participate in the development and maintenance of appropriate project technical documentation including design, configuration, and installation What you'll bring to the team--- --- Bachelor's degree in a related field or the equivalent through a combination of education and related work experience.--- 5 years Minimum related work experience ?It would be even better if you also had--- --- 2+ years of systems administrator experience; preferably in Public Cloud or large Enterprise Level Data Centers--- 2+ Cloud and automation experience--- 2+ years working with Cloud orchestration and automation--- 3-5 years working with Cloud platforms - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS)--- 3-5 years working knowledge with Cloud service provider technologies (Microsoft Azure preferred, or AWS)--- Technical skills in Server operating systems (Windows and Linux) including Administration, Clustering, and Powershell--- Programmatic skills that leverage languages and scripting.--- Knowledge and experience with CI/CD concepts.--- Knowledge of automation, orchestration and configuration management technologies such as Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, SaltStack and advanced scripting knowledge with Python, Powershell, Bash, VBScript or equivalent.--- Technical knowledge across various disciplines to resolve complex infrastructure integration issues and problems and interface with multiple vendors to coordinate resolution of issues.--- Experience operating in a large enterprise environment and understanding of implementation of systems at scale.--- Strong communications and teaming skills.--- Ability to operate in an agile, fast paced environment.

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