
Microsoft Cloud Lead Infrastructure Engineer
- Columbus, OH
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Applies technical expertise and problem-solving methodologies to projects of moderate scope
- Drives a workstream or project consisting of one or more infrastructure engineering technologies
- Works with other platforms to architect and implement changes required to resolve issues and modernize the organization and its technology processes
- Executes creative solutions for the design, development, and technical troubleshooting for problems of moderate complexity
- Strongly considers upstream/downstream data and systems or technical implications and advises on mitigation actions
- Adds to team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
- Lead, design, engineer and deploy services in Azure, using automation tools, IaC (Infrastructure as Code), Terraform, ARM, PowerShell, and the Azure Cli
- Create automation workflows for compute, networking, storage and other infrastructure deployments
- Collaborate with senior technology and business stakeholders to understand requirements and engineer solutions around them
- Partner with external vendors, and internal teams to overcome technical challenges and deliver solutions
- Execute creative software solutions, design, development, and technical troubleshooting with ability to think beyond routine or conventional approaches to build solutions or break down technical problems
- Formal training or certification on Infrastructure Engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Deep knowledge of one or more areas of infrastructure engineering such as hardware, networking terminology, databases, storage engineering, deployment practices, integration, automation, scaling, resilience, or performance assessments
- Deep knowledge of one specific infrastructure technology and scripting languages (e.g., Scripting, Python, etc.)
- Drives to continue to develop technical and cross-functional knowledge outside of the product
- Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure and multiple cloud technologies with the ability to operate in and migrate across public and private clouds
- Strong experience with public cloud and on-premise Windows virtual desktop environments
- Expertise in Windows authentication protocols, Azure RBAC, network topologies, security principles, firewalls and technical problem solving
- Passionate and energetic technology leader and problem solver
- Thrives on innovative and solid engineering practices
- In-depth knowledge of the financial services industry and their IT systems
- Ability to uncover business challenges and develop solutions to solve those challenges
- Expert knowledge of the Windows 11 operating system
- Knowledge of Amazon (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud technologies
- Ability to communicate effectively with business leaders, application developers and systems technology experts
- Ability to coordinate efforts across disparate groups
- Ability to work well at a conceptual level in driving concepts out into workable solutions
- Ability to define target state architectures and developing applicable transition plans