Initially, a 1-month contract will be issued, which is extendable up to 12 months. During the first month, the candidate will be required to work 2 weeks onsite and 2 weeks remotely. After that, the role will move to a hybrid working model.

Cloud Engineering / Networking Responsibilities:

• Develop, Design and implement- Azure Cloud Services: Azure Virtual Machines, App Services, AKS, Functions, Storage, Monitor

• Develop, Design and implement VNETs, Subnets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, SDWAN and network solutions

• Automation & DevOps -Design and implement support for ARM Templates, Terraform, PowerShell, CI/CD Pipelines

• Performance & Cost Optimization – Autoscaling, Load Balancing, Reserved Instances

• Design for scalability, reliability, availability, and security of systems.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize performance and maintain resilient systems.

• Investigate and evaluate market and technology trends

• Foster a collaborative troubleshooting environment.

Security and Compliance:

• Implement and adhere to and enforce security policies and best practices.

• Ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., ISO, NIST).

• Remediate vulnerabilities and provide systems built with security by design.

• Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture

• Support Identity & Access Management Standards, Azure AD, RBAC

System / Networking Assessment Responsibilities:

• Review and assess the enterprise network landscape including LAN, WAN, Fiber and Voice for Hollister’s Tennessee locations.

• Evaluate on-prem and cloud network security posture.

• Assess server and compute platforms across on-prem and cloud environments.

• Review storage, backup, restore and disaster recovery solutions.

• Document consolidated findings, and recommendations for the above.

• Create Network Assessment Report – Architecture and configuration details of network Devices

• Create Server Assessment Report - Capacity, performance, availability details of On-prem and cloud servers

• Create Security Assessment Report - Identified risks and vulnerabilities on network, server, access control & firewall.