The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a Azure Cloud Engineer in Vienna, VA.

Role Description

Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer skills: Candidate must have hands on experience in Azure technologies and be able to collaborate and support multiple product teams. Candidate will participate in scrum meetings and must be able to adapt to change, with focus on value delivery with minimal day-to-day direction. Responsibilities will include implementing solutions for Azure Cloud, develop software for infrastructure automation and monitoring, ensuring success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the Azure platform, trouble-shooting production issues and performing on-call duties (24X7) on a rotation basis

• This role is responsible for providing Cloud technical leadership to internal business lines and delivering cloud solutions in a fast paced agile environment using the latest methodologies and infrastructure.
• Candidate will have technical consultative role and must be able to collaborate and support multiple product teams in defining Cloud solutions, implementing services and identifying risks to successful implementations. Candidate will participate in scrum meetings and must be able to adapt to change, with focus on value delivery with minimal day-to-day direction. Responsibilities will include implementing solutions for Azure Cloud, develop software for infrastructure automation and monitoring, ensuring success in building and migrating applications, software and services on the Azure platform, trouble-shooting production issues and performing on-call duties

Skills & Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering and development, including requirement definition, software development, integration, installation, maintenance and testing with languages like C#, Java, JavaScript in Windows and Linux environments
• 3+ years’ working experience with Azure IaaS and PaaS
• Basic understanding of HTML and GUI web interfaces with AJAX and JavaScript
• Experience with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
• Knowledge of TCP/IP networking, SMTP, HTTP, load-balancers, high availability architecture, zero downtime production deployments
• Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux servers
• Experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)
• Experience with Visual Studio team Services (VSTS), Service Now,
• Experience using GitHub, Chef and/or Jenkins
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Experience with DevOps and Agile practices, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment
• (CI/CD) pipelines
• A Network Administrator Engineer manages and maintains an organization’s network infrastructure, ensuring security, performance, and reliability.
• Expertise in networking protocols and devices
• Proficiency in firewalls, routers, and VPNs
• Experience with network monitoring tools
• Azure Iaas and Paas
• Windows and Linux
• DevOps
• Agile & CI/CD

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it.

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Hays is committed to building a thriving culture of diversity that embraces people with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better we serve our candidates, clients, and employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer, and we comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, genetic information, HIV-positive status, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. One of Hays’ guiding principles is ‘do the right thing’.
We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.

In accordance with applicable federal, state, and local law protecting qualified individuals with known disabilities, Hays will attempt to reasonably accommodate those individuals unless doing so would create an undue hardship on the company. Any qualified applicant or consultant with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should call or text 813.336.5570.

Drug testing may be required; please contact a recruiter for more information.

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