Azure Cloud Engineer
CurrentPart of a team responsible for designing, implementing, and managing cloud-based solutions on Microsoft's Azure platform. Roles included ensuring security, scalability, and efficiency of cloud resources, while collaborating with development and IT teams to seamlessly integrate cloud solutions into broader business operations. • Manage and maintain Azure Virtual Networks, VPN gateways, and other networking components.• Regularly document processes, architectures, and standard operating procedures.• Work closely with development, DevOps, and other IT teams to understand their cloud needs and provide guidance.• Optimize the performance of cloud resources by analyzing metrics and implementing best practices• Configure and manage development, QA, staging, and production environments hosted in Azure.• Architecture of Network design including VNet Design, including DMZ design, ingress (Application GW w/WAF), egress (squid proxy and Azure firewall), and associated routing and peering across VNets.• Ongoing cost control using EA, re-architecture of certain services (Kubernetes vs certain App Services, instance family changes), and automated turn down.• Configuration and management of Application Gateways, App Services, API Management services.• Management of DNS and SSL for virtual machines and Azure services such as APIMs.• Design and implement Role Based Access Control at the Azure and Operating System levels.