Company Overview
The leading force in the Microsoft cloud, Cloudforce creates, migrates, and maintains custom cloud solutions for businesses and government. In every engagement, Cloudforce serves as a trusted partner to help clients define and refine their technology needs. Cloudforce then crafts and deploys accessible, scalable, and secure solutions to help clients manage and grow their business in efficient and innovative new ways. Cloudforce staff live and breathe the Microsoft cloud, and provide every customer with the best technology strategy for their organization’s goals and challenges. Cloudforce prizes every business relationship as a new opportunity to connect, collaborate, and help enrich lives—across businesses, across communities, and beyond.
Cloudforce is seeking a talented, full-time Senior Cloud Solutions Engineer, with experience designing and implementing solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. This role requires hands-on engineering of cloud infrastructure solutions to meet the complex requirements of various high-profile customers across the Washington, DC region.
The ideal candidate for this position will have a solid foundation in IT infrastructure, experience working with the latest generation of cloud services (particularly all fundamental Azure services), and a desire to learn/test/design/deploy the latest cloud technologies in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Above all else, this individual should have a desire to provide awesome customer service and delight our clients with their personality, in addition to their technical abilities!
Qualifications
- Minimum of 3 years hands-on experience specific to Azure.
- Minimum of 3 years hands-on experience with IT infrastructure (datacenters + enterprise networks).
- Strong understanding of different deployment resource types and when to deploy each type (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
- Proficiency in PowerShell and/or Azure CLI.
- Knowledge of automating deployment workloads in Azure.
- Ability to consult with customers to assist in the extraction of technical requirements from business objectives.
- Ability to convert technical requirements into a proposed system architecture.
- Ability to design and deploy multi-tier server (and serverless) applications.
- Strong background in IT infrastructure fundamentals, including networking, storage, and security.
- Experience creating professional documentation and diagrams for external consumption.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Previous involvement in migrating datacenter workloads to Azure.
- Previous experience in a consulting role.
- Azure Certifications: Administrator, Architect, DevOps Engineer, Security Engineer.
- Additional Microsoft Certifications: O365, MCITP, MCSA, MCSE.
- Other Certifications: CISSP, CCNA, CompTIA.
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