Azure Cloud Engineer - Johannesburg – up to R900k per annum

SUMMARY:
Azure Cloud Engineer - Johannesburg – up to R900k per annum

POSITION INFO:

A long serving bank and financial services group known as Africa''s biggest lender by assets requires the services of an Azure Cloud Engineer, your role will be to support and contribute to a number of products or work streams relating to the design and implementation of Cloud solutions, operating across a number of Service Teams and proactively engage with internal stakeholders in the delivery of cloud solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Azure Virtual Machines, MLP’s Virtual Network in Azure and VNET
• Manage and monitor IaaS deployments using Log Analytics and Log Search to drill down” into the most important data in your IaaS systems
• Manage configuring and connectivity between on-premises environments and Azure
• Monitor network performance to comply with service-level agreements
• Automate deployments and scaling of Azure IaaS Solution scripts
• Build a well-managed enterprise environment in Azure
• Manage IaaS costing model, Microsoft discounts and recoveries
• Creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps (VSTS) to deploy both infrastructure and applications

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Information Technology
• 2 years’ experience with systems and configuration management tools (e.g., Chef and Terraform)
• 4 years’ experience gained in using production systems and technologies, for example load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, microservices, and configuration management
• Usage and management of the tools to manage the infrastructure: Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, ExpressRoute, Azure Active Directory, AD Connect, Operations Management Suite/Log Analytics, Azure Monitor, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Azure App Services, Azure Storage, Azure Import/Export, Azure SQL Server, MySQL, Azure Automation

The Reference Number for this position is NG57866 which is a Permanent Hybrid position based in Johannesburg offering a salary negotiable from R700k up to R900k per annum based on experience and ability. Contact Nokuthula at nokuthulag@ e-merge.co.za or call her on to discuss this and other opportunities.

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