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Azure Stack Engineer
Based: Farnborough
Salary – £55-70k D.O.E.
Are you an Infrastructure Engineer with a background and passion for Azure administration and are interested in learning, implementing and supporting the newest UK Azure Stack platform?
In this role, you will work collaboratively with internal project and operational teams to deploy and operate the newest Azure Stack Platform providing Cloud services to customers. You will be working closely with Microsoft and Cisco in scaling out the platform and bringing the latest Software As A Service capabilities to the market.
You will be able to understand customer needs, business goals and implement technical solutions to ensure the best levels of performance, service and availability to customers. Participating in Meet Ups, customer and supplier collaboration are key ways of working as part of our agile teams.
Essential skills
·Experience of working in an Agile environment.
·Understanding of infrastructure as code, applied with configuration management, automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
·Understanding of programming patterns and constructs. Our main language is PowerShell, but a fundamental understanding and an ability to learn is crucial/critical.
·Fundamental understanding of Microsoft Azure. Windows System administration, filesystem concepts etc.
·Comfortable with PowerShell scripting and the typical variety of PowerShell cmdlets with main focus on Azure PowerShell
Desirable skills
·Operating maintaining and managing cloud infrastructure at scale, ideally Azure Hybrid Cloud
·Demonstrable experience of utilising PowerShell Pester module
·Experience of deploying, maintaining and using container orchestration platforms, such as Service Fabric, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm
·Experience of using source control systems, CI/CD, unit testing. We make use of the Atlassian tool set, including Bitbucket and Bamboo but also GitHub
·Production experience with database technologies. (MySql, MS SQL)
·Understanding of how to monitor Azure based applications.
·Experience of using AzureCLI to deploy workloads to Azure
·Fundamental understanding of networking in Azure.
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