Position Overview
Are you someone with the passion and technical ability to help organizations move to the cloud? Do you want to be part of one of the most significant IT transformational technologies of our time? Do you take pride in guiding a prospect through the ins and outs of this complex process while advocating for the immense value your organization delivers?
Join us at RapidScale and become a technical driver in helping companies transition to AWS and Azure. This position will primarily fulfill an engineering role in project-based engagements with clients, focusing on deploying cloud environments based on agreed-upon architectures, navigating clients through the application integration phase, and taking clients to the finish line with go-live.
Cloud Systems Engineers may also participate in architecture design and reviews, occasional pre-sales calls as subject matter experts, and internal DevOps initiatives.
About
The CSE is expected to be a thought leader at RapidScale and, therefore, highly knowledgeable about the technical aspects of our cloud services and the industry, which may include but are not limited to:
- Cloud Computing on Azure
- Migrations to Azure
- Professional Services and Consulting engagements
- Security/Compliance Services
- Managed Cloud Services
- Automation/DevOps
At RapidScale, we provide assessment, design, build, and management services to a diverse range of Azure clients. As one of less than 60 partners worldwide with the Azure Expert MSP designation, we're committed to delivering solutions that harness Azure's full power and capabilities. We build highly resilient, secure, automated, and cost-efficient environments. In this critical role, you'll not only help us achieve these goals for our clients but also play a significant part in enabling RapidScale to meet our ambitious growth targets.
Primary Duties And Responsibilities
- Work on interesting client projects spanning various activities like greenfield deployments, migrations to the cloud, app modernization, containers, and bespoke solutions that meet client requirements.
- Follow Rapidscale and vendors' best practices during implementation to achieve security, compliance, performance, and cost efficiency objectives.
- Represent Rapidscale's cloud enablement and management capabilities to prospective customers and existing customer base and influence customer expectations based on product and management capabilities and constraints.
- Navigate additional client requirements during implementation and provide technical solutions and troubleshooting.
- Work with our Managed Services team to provide a smooth transition of client environments for ongoing management, including written environment documentation, updated diagrams, and conducting internal handover sessions at the project's conclusion.
- Help expand the PS team's capabilities by offering technical training and support to your peers.
- Participate in internal Azure R&D to improve technical processes, validate new technologies and cloud services, and automate/script commonly performed tasks.
Qualifications
Minimum
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 4+ years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 2 years' experience; a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 8 years' experience in a related field.
- 3+ years of experience performing infrastructure deployments, configuration, automation, and design on the Azure platform.
- IaC-first approach to deploying resources on Azure - Terraform, ARM templates.
- Strong experience migrating workloads from on-prem or other clouds to Azure using native Azure tools like Azure Migrate and ASR.
- Strong understanding and hands-on experience with Azure networking options: S2S/P2S VPN, VNet peering, NSGs, Availability Zones, DR networking options, Virtual WAN, and more.
- Strong understanding and implementation of Azure IAM: Azure RBAC, Entra ID, and native AD options.
- Hands-on with Azure policies to enforce configuration standards.
- Scripting and querying experience (e.g., Powershell, Bash, Python, Azure CLI, KQL).
- Some experience deploying IaC and/or applications with CI/CD pipelines - GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, etc.
- Some Sysadmin on Windows and/or Linux.
- Azure Administrator Associate certification at a minimum.
Preferred
- Experience with performing rehost, replatform, and refactor migrations to Azure.
- Azure Network Engineer Associate, Azure SA Expert certifications.
- Experience with deploying and configuring Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) service.
- Any experience with AWS or GCP is a plus.
USD 97,100.00 - 161,800.00 per year
Compensation
Compensation includes a base salary of $97,100.00 - $161,800.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.
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