Job Title: Azure Systems Engineer
Location: Hybrid (4 days onsite), 1 day remote– Dearborn, MI
Type: Ongoing W2 Contract (NO C2C)
Pay: $58-$62.70 /hour + benefits
Job Description:
People in this role are responsible for building and operating IT hardware and software resources in on-prem, cloud or hybrid scenarios in support of internal customer needs. They are responsible for a wide variety of activities that operationalize cross functional teams such as capacity planning and resource optimization solutions for one-off and long-term workloads, planning, configuring and maintaining servers (including mainframes), creating virtualized environments, providing analytics services, installing and maintaining specialized tools, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Involved in the design, operation, and maintenance of enterprise servers, including specialty mainframe systems like IBM/LPARS, high performance super computing systems, and general-purpose hybrid and cloud systems, for optimal end-user business operations.
- Research, design, implement and maintain complex infrastructure solutions for internal customer needs such as specialty software, data warehouses, identity access management, event frameworks, containerization and on demand scaling, etc.
- Design and configure secure virtualized environments aligned with enterprise architecture blueprints consisting of virtual machines, virtual networks, high speed and distributed storage systems (SAN, HDFS, SSD, etc.)
- Utilize existing tools or assist in engineering custom monitoring solutions to ensure systems are configured correctly, run efficiently and remain secure against potential threats.
- Monitor and review resources like CPU, memory, storage, and network traffic to ensure effective utilization aligned with expected parameters and to safeguard against runaway costs.
- Resolve bottlenecks and plan for future capacity needs based on resource usage trends. Advise enterprise architecture teams on usage trends to incorporate into future blueprints.
Required Experience/Education/Skills:
- 4+ years in IT
- 3+ years in development
- 1 coding language or framework
- Bachelor’s degree
- Data analysis using Azure Monitor and Azure Logs
- Strong PowerShell expertise
- Graphical queries and log analytics
- Understanding Azure subscriptions and related environments/tools
- Data capture and analysis across large fleets of managed devices
- Proactive monitoring and issue management
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