Azure Automation Engineer in Reading, Berkshire

Azure Automation Engineer
Remote with visits to Reading once a month.
3 months initially
£600 per day (Inside IR35)

My client in the utilities industry are looking for an Azure Automation Engineer to join their fast-paced team on an initial 3 month contract.

Provide leadership and accountability for ensuring the ongoing maintenance, and developed service improvements to, our core applications. Use your knowledge to take the lead and guide others into the diagnosis and resolution of incidents, problems and in the development of technical solutions to satisfy business requirements.
To join a team of developers working in Agile in a project that is building a new Digital and Event platform.
As an Azure Networks and Automation Engineer you will be designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and?supporting?significant?components within?a?modern?digital service platform in production environments.
Implementing modern?Continuous Delivery?processes?for releasing software to production.?
Applying?industry?best practices?and patterns?across infrastructure and application components e.g. security, elasticity, performance.
Applying your experience/knowledge of?cloud computing in building?applications using Azure
Provide accountability for the monitoring and reporting of the supported systems performance.
Define and provide configuration changes to our core applications as deemed necessary.
Lead and govern the release and change management processes required to implement technical changes to our core applications.
Ensure the quality of deliverables by governing the validation and verification of technical output through QA and test processes.
Provide the focal point for advice, guidance and technical input of own area through, knowledge transfer, one to one workshop, mentoring to other teams as required.

Ideal experience
Extensive experience in Azure troubleshooting, Networking, Private Endpoints, VNETs, WVD, Azure Container, and firewall troubleshooting
Experience in Networking (VNET, NSG, Hub and Spoke, Express Route,VPN, UDR),
Services (Load Balancers, Highly available Virtual Network Appliances- Fortinet- mandatory NetScalerBluecoat NSG optional) and Security (NSG, Firewalls)
A good experience in Infrastructure as Code familiar - Ansible and deployment Automation, experience in coding in Ansible including the creation of scripts, managing roles and inventories
Experience in creating deployment scripts, for networking components.
Experience from a similar support or development role in supporting business critical systems in a medium/large organisation

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