Azure Cloud Engineer (FinOps)

Overview

It's an exciting time to join Fisher Investments; we're investing in the future of our firm's technology and information security. Our business is growing internationally, which emphasizes the need to build an unparalleled team that promotes future global growth through strategic solutions and progress. We are important to supporting our firm's diverse businesses, and we're excited to continue solidifying that foundation as we add more experienced technologists to our Technology team.

The Opportunity:

The Azure Cloud Engineer (FinOps) is part of the Cloud team and will analyze and optimize the financial aspects of an organization's spend on cloud resources. You will ensure the cost management of cloud resources and make sure that cloud services are cost-effective. You will also maintain the operational Azure cloud environment, perform infrastructure deployments, and ensure the production environment is operating securely and efficiently using automation tools. You will collaborate with stakeholders and promote awareness of costs involved in cloud consumption. You will work with Infrastructure Engineering to make sure all deployments follow standards, are compliant and secure. You will partner with other cloud team members, application owners and business owners for faster delivery of resources. You will report to the Cloud Platform Team Leader.

The Day-to-Day:

• Improve cost usage across the cloud environment.
• Establish cost-effective strategies for cloud resources and enforce policies, procedures and best practices for cloud cost management.
• Produce the required cost reports and come up with cost-saving options.
• Work with partners and teams to ensure compliance with governance policies.
• Educate and give training to cloud users on cloud cost management and optimization practices.
• Conduct deep-dive analysis on cloud spend data to support decision-making.
• Create and maintain required generic cost management dash boards for business.
• Deploy enterprise scaled resources that can be used across technology organizations
• Deploy scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure using automation tooling for routine operation tasks
• Manage implementation and the ongoing operation of cloud services following approved designs, adherence to patterns, security requirements and certify all logging and monitoring are active for security and compliance
• Use automation, configuration management and deployment tools to manage production environment ensuring standardization and adherence to established controls and patterns
• Work with solution architects and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls and meet cloud computing best practices
• Enhance existing deployment processes and Infrastructure as Code scripts to improve automation, efficiency, consistency and adherence to security and audit requirements and control
• Maintain comprehensive and systematic configuration, lifecycle and security management of servers
• Ensure cloud services and toolsets are deployed applying best practices and documentation
• Be the main contact for business application owners, building a bridge between them and the cloud team
• Foster the use of Cloud environment and deployments
• Work with other Cloud engineers and Architects, application and business owners to deploy and improve the cloud environment  
• Implement or suggest strategies in IaC, CI/CD for applying faster and secure deployments
• Escalate unresolved issues accordingly
• Collaborate with engineers, providing assistance, guidance and training
• Participate in team activities such as daily standups, peer code reviews, design collaboration efforts and rotating On-Call process
• Provide international and 24/7 support via On-Call duties and/or working a flexible off-hours schedule for planned and unplanned maintenance

Your Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience deploying resources and managing infrastructure through both manual and automated pipelines in an IT infrastructure & operational environment. 
• 5+ years of experience maintaining resources in cross platform environments.
• 3+ years of experience in Azure cloud deployments using IaC
• 3+ years of experience deploying resources using Terraform.
• 3+ years of experience using GitHub, and GitHub Actions.
• 3+ years of experience building, deploying and managing public cloud IaaS and PaaS services.
• 3+ years of experience building automated cloud infrastructure across multiple Production and Non-Production environments.
• 3+ years of experience scripting and automating builds, workflows, tasks and other integration aspects.
• 2+ years of experience with Azure Cost Management tools.
• 2+ years of experience using the CI/CD pipelines.
• 2+ years of experience using YAML/YML for GitHub actions.
• 2+ years of experience Azure CLI.
• 2+ years of experience troubleshooting Azure Cloud environment.
• Experience with DNS, LAN, WAN, Firewalls, File systems, and IAM
• Experience automating deployments.
• Experience with Enterprise applications development.
• Knowledge in using PowerShell.
• Bachelor's degree in MIS, computer science, or a related field

Compensation:

• $90,000 - $150,000 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, $10,000 fertility, family forming, and hormonal health assistance, and back-up child, adult, and elder care
• This is an in-office role. Based on your role, tenure, and performance eligibility you may have the opportunity to participate in our hybrid work from home program. This program is subject to change. 

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