Cloud Platform Engineer

Kimley-Horn’s IT Team has a challenging and rewarding entry-mid level opportunity for a Cloud Platform Engineer based in our Raleigh office. In this role, you will be working alongside a team of five professionals who manage our execution of Cloud Solutions & Architecture supporting the Cloud development platform for our various projects, both internal and external.

Ranked as one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” Kimley-Horn prides itself on hiring high-achieving, dedicated, and professionals who are passionate about the work they do.

• Involvement in a variety of operational activities, such as continuous environment health monitoring, maintaining standards, and stability across our IaaS/PaaS/SaaS environment.
• Initiating incident management in the event of an issue and addressing escalations
• Implementing recommended modifications while adhering to change management processes, vulnerability management and remediation, and engaging in disaster recovery tests.
• Identifying new cloud technologies and platforms to help solve technical challenges
• Build cloud foundational components encompassing network, security, identity, operations, and governance in the cloud
• Operationalize solutions from proof-of-concept through production, using automation for repeatability, maintainability, and to enforce standards
• Designing technical architecture for cloud solutions that meet the needs for scalability, reliability, availability, and performance.
• Cloud Capacity Planning, Profiling, Load testing, and monitoring of cloud applications, while incorporating security best practices.
• Responsible for day-to-day operations of managing cloud resources which include resource allocation, optimizing capacity, and configuration management.
• Function as part of a team, involving and supporting others to get the job done

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, systems Engineering, or related field of study
• 4+ years of relevant experience
• Microsoft Azure certification (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ500)
• Knowledge in the platform of Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services and foundational components of compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, security, tenant/subscriptions
• Understanding of Azure App Services architecture and deployment
• Hands on experience with Microsoft Azure Services such as Azure API Management, Azure Database Management, Azure Security
• Experience with Azure DevOps for source control, continuous integration and deployment and software development lifecycle
• Experience in High Availability, geo-distributed architecture for multi-regional applications that require improved performance, and Disaster recovery implementations
• Experience automating deployments using PowerShell, CLI, Terraform, Bicep. deploying & maintaining separate Development, UAT, Production, etc. environments via an IaC solution
• Comfortable talking about technical issues with business partners and business issues with technical partners
• Ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing in diverse situations with all levels of management, vendors, clients (internal), and peers. Ability and willingness to continue to expand knowledge and experience base
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