Azure Cloud Engineer - Windows

Join Our Team as an Azure Cloud and Deployment Engineer - Windows:

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Are you passionate about ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of software and infrastructure? Input 1 is seeking a seasoned Azure Cloud and Deployment Engineer to join our dynamic team. If you join us, you will collaborate closely with development, operations, and other cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain robust, automated solutions for managing our production environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in system administration, cloud technologies, and software engineering, along with a passion for solving complex technical challenges.

About Us:

Input 1 has a unique growth story, with its early beginnings as a family-built general agency in the 1950s. With unquestionable dedication to providing necessary and progressive solutions to an ever-evolving industry, Input 1 has since then grown to be a leading provider of software, payment, billing, and business process outsourcing solutions to the property and casualty insurance industry.

Choosing to work for Input 1 as an employee means choosing to work with really good people. Integrity, compassion, and respect are vital to the character of the people who work at our company. Knowledge, flexibility, and constant self-evaluation are drivers of our success. Our work environment rewards excellence, not egos.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure and services in an Azure cloud environment.
• Develop and implement automation tools and processes to streamline deployment, monitoring, and management tasks.
• Perform UAT and Production software deployments.
• Collaborate with development teams to design applications for reliability, scalability, and performance.
• Monitor system performance and reliability metrics, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions to minimize downtime and improve performance.
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotation, identifying root causes of incidents and implementing preventive measures to mitigate future occurrences.
• Conduct regular reviews and audits of infrastructure and systems to identify potential areas for improvement and optimization.
• Assist with vulnerability scans, PCI scans, and emerging threats to protect the attack surface.
• Stay up to date with industry best practices, emerging technologies, and trends in site reliability engineering and cloud computing, and incorporate them into our practices and processes.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to define and implement metrics and objectives to measure and improve system reliability and availability.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure that infrastructure and services are designed and operated with security best practices in mind.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of Windows systems administration and networking concepts.
• Experience with managing IIS, .Net, SQL Server environments.
• Hands-on experience with cloud computing platforms, Azure preferred.
• Proficiency and experience with scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools and incident management systems.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex issues in a distributed, high-availability environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Relevant Azure certifications are a plus.

Education:

• Desired Bachelor’s degree in computer science or comparable degree, or equivalent experience

Experience/Knowledge:

• 5+ years of experience in a similar role, with a focus on site reliability engineering, system administration, or software engineering.
• Experience working in SaaS environment.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Salary of $110,000.00 - $150,000.00
• Competitive, based on experience.
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
• 401k
• 10 paid holidays
• Vacation/sick time.