Senior Azure Engineer

Company: Fisher Investments
Location: Portland
Posted on: November 13, 2024

Job Description:

Are you looking to join a global technology department for an industry-leading financial advisory firm? Fisher Investments is looking for a Senior Azure Engineer to support our Portfolio Management Group's modernization programs. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a difference as we develop scalable and strategic solutions to support our global growth, we want to hear from you!---- The Opportunity: -- The Senior Azure Engineer will mentor and support a team of cloud engineers in designing, implementing, and managing our Azure-based cloud infrastructure. We are looking for deep technical expertise in Azure services and the ability to guide strategic cloud programs that align with our goals. -- The Day-to-Day: -- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Coordinate the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of Azure resources with Cloud Platform team so that Application development engineers have the right infrastructure available across multiple environments promptly
• Aide in designing and managing scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure and automation tooling for routine operation tasks for the deployed applications
• Manage cloud costs and improve resource usage to achieve cost efficiency
• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of the Azure environment through proactive monitoring, optimization, and troubleshooting
• Investigate and monitor current-state cloud usage, solutions in use, risks, gaps, limitations and recommend solutions, optimizations and remediation
• Mitigate broken systems and prevent future disruptions
• Consult and contribute to process improvements of IT policies, procedures, tools, security controls and infrastructure
• Research and proof of concept activities, as well as providing recommendations for new technologies, techniques and tools to add value by increasing efficiency while improving service quality
• Work with solution architects and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls and meet cloud computing best practices.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and the adoption of new technologies to enhance the Azure cloud environment
• Stay up to date with the latest Azure features, tools, and best practices, and share this knowledge to the team
• Work with scrum teams on Observability and Monitoring needs and implement solutions by collaborating with Observability team
• Work with the Product Owner(s) on helping identify the infrastructure needs for new features Your Qualifications:
  • 10+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure cross platform technology areas, with an emphasis on implementation and maintenance
  • 5+ years of experience building, deploying and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services
  • Configuration management, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolsets including (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Puppet and Chef)
  • Scripting and automation of builds, workflows, tasks and other integration aspects
  • Experience building an automated cloud infrastructure across Prod and Non-Prod environments
  • Experience in DevSecOps using GitHub, jFrog, and Octopus setup
  • Experience in Monitoring and Observability software, Uptime tracking and managing Highly Available API services
  • Experience tracing and troubleshooting issues in Hybrid environments
  • Experience with Linux and Microsoft Windows server administration
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required Compensation:
    • $100,000 - $180,000 base salary per year in the state of WA - New hires should expect to start at the lower end of the range depending on experience
    • Eligible for a discretionary bonus based on firm and individual performance Why Fisher Investments: -- We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. We take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and development framework customized for every employee, and our Great Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional benefits like:
      • 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents
      • A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
      • 20 days of PTO, plus 10 paid holidays--
      • Family Support programs including 8 week Paid Primary Caregiver Leave, fertility, family forming, and hormonal health assistance and back-up child, adult, and elder care
      • $10,000 fertility, hormonal health and family-forming benefit
      • Opportunity to participate in our hybrid work from home program. This program is subject to change. Based on tenure and performance eligibility, you will have the opportunity to work from home up to 75 days per year -- FISHER INVESTMENTS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

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