Seeking a skilled Azure Cloud & Automation Specialist to design, deploy, and manage robust cloud infrastructure and platform services. This role is crucial for maintaining high availability, scalability, and security of our Azure-hosted applications and services, supporting development, testing, and disaster recovery environments.

Focus areas include establishing secure networking solutions, administering Azure subscriptions, and ensuring seamless operation of various Azure services like Azure SQL, Key Vault, and API Management.

Key responsibilities involve designing and deploying Azure cloud infrastructure, administering Azure services (subscriptions, networking, storage, databases), and implementing secure networking solutions. You will be responsible for ensuring high availability, scalability, and security of cloud-hosted applications.

Additionally, you will develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, automate deployments with Terraform and Azure DevOps, and manage source code repositories. The role also includes Linux administration for RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu, focusing on patching, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. Developing automation solutions with Python, Ansible, and PowerShell to streamline operational tasks is also a core part of this position. Monitoring infrastructure and applications using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, and participating in incident resolution and root cause analysis will be essential.

We are looking for expertise in Microsoft Azure, including services like App Services, Function Apps, API Management, Application Gateway, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights, along with Azure Networking.

Proficiency in Azure DevOps, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code is required. Strong Linux administration skills for RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu, including security, performance tuning, and troubleshooting, are essential.

Candidates must possess advanced scripting skills in Python, Ansible, PowerShell, Perl, PHP, and Bash/Shell scripting. Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL, along with database performance tuning, is also necessary. Familiarity with AI technologies like Microsoft Copilot is a plus.