Azure Cloud Engineer
Company: Gallagher
Location: Rolling Meadows
Posted on: May 16, 2022
Job Description:
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., one of the world's largest insurance
brokerage and risk management services firms, provides a full range
of retail and wholesale property/casualty (P/C) brokerage and
alternative risk transfer services globally, as well as employee
benefit brokerage, consulting and actuarial services. Gallagher
also offers claims and information management, risk control
consulting and appraisal services to clients around the world. If
you're looking for a professional career with an industry leader
then you have come to the right place. Wherever your interests lie,
we're sure you will agree on one thing: our continued prosperity
hinges on our greatest resource --- our people. Position Summary
The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for the creation of a
technology framework and providing technical leadership in support
of AJG initiatives in cloud computing and automation, with a focus
on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation
features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic
scalability)
- Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes
- Develop a library of deployable and documented cloud design
patterns, based on the AJG application portfolio, as a basis for
deploying services to the cloud
- Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research
and the "why," and articulate several options, the pros and cons
for each, and a recommendation
- Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends,
technology, etc.
- Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural
alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including
IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services
- Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex
development tasks
- Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high
availability and disaster recovery for cloud applications
- Troubleshoot and resolution of complex problems within the
infrastructure
- Work on designing/implementing/automation procedures for
deployment, configuration, patching and upgrading of systems and
applications
- Conduct analysis of production systems and performance testing
results to identify areas of improvement within the application or
infrastructure
- Conduct feasibility studies for existing and emerging cloud
technologies
- Provide mentoring and guidance for mid and junior level staff,
offering feedback targeted at individual development
- Work closely with vendors, internal groups and outside agencies
to provide technical leadership and solutions
- Independently analyze, solve, and correct issues in real time,
providing problem resolution end-to-end.
- Refine and automate regular processes, track issues, and
document changes
- Provide 24x7 support for critical production systems.
- Perform scheduled maintenance and support release deployment
activities after hours.
- Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical
mentorship and cross-training to other peers and team members.
Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis or a
related study, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines,
including technical cloud architecture, network management,
application development, middleware, database management or
operations
- Experience with Azure Shell scripting/PowerShell scripting
- Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing
environments
- Knowledge of all components of an technical architecture
- Knowledge of business process re-engineering principles and
processes
- Strong understanding of network architecture and application
development methodologies
- Strong understanding of SOA, object-oriented analysis and
design, and/or client/server
- Strong client-facing consultative skills, able to act as a
customer advocate;
- Understanding of Windows Server architecture -Windows 2012,
Windows 2016 and IIS;
- Understanding of Linux Server architecture - RHEL, Oracle
Linux, Amazon Linux, etc.
- Experience with containers (Docker) and orchestration
(Kubernetes) technologies;
- Familiar with one or more server-side scripting languages (e.g.
PowerShell, Python, Bash)
- Familiarity with server hardware selection, design and
troubleshooting;
- Understanding of High Availability and Networked Storage
solutions including Clustering, Failover and Disaster Recovery
products and concepts such as MS Clustering Services, Load
Balancing, Routers, LUNS, SAN and NAS;
- Understanding of application layer protocols, such as HTTP/S,
TCP/IP, UDP and Web sockets;
- Demonstrated abilities with SSO-related software such as ADFS,
Ping Identity, OpenSSO, oAuth, Okta or other SAML & OpenID Connect
providers;
- Understanding of Web application security and concepts, such as
Ticketing, header injection, XSS, SSL, HTTPS, Kerberos,
certificates, Active Directory, LDAP, reverse proxies and
firewalls;
- Hands on experience designing and deploying complex solutions
in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or other cloud providers;
- Excellent presentation and communication skills to technical
and non-technical audiences. U.S. Eligibility Requirements:
- Interested candidates must submit an application and resume/CV
online to be considered
- Are you 18 years of age or older or can you demonstrate legal
capacity to enter a contract?
- Must be willing to submit to a background investigation; any
offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion
of a background investigation
- Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United
States. For U.S. employment opportunities, Gallagher hires U.S.
citizens, permanent residents, asylees, refugees, and temporary
residents. Temporary residence does not include those with
non-immigrant work authorization (F, J, H or L visas), such as
students in practical training status. Exceptions to these
requirements will be determined based on shortage of qualified
candidates with a particular skill. Gallagher will require proof of
work authorization
- Must be willing to execute Gallagher's Employee Agreement or
Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement which requires, among
other things, post-employment obligations relating to
non-solicitation, confidentiality and non-disclosure Gallagher
offers competitive salaries and benefits, including:
medical/dental/vision plans, life and accident insurance, 401(K),
employee stock purchase plan, educational expense reimbursement,
employee assistance program, flexible work hours (availability
varies by office and job function) training programs, matching gift
program, and more. Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled
to equal employment opportunity and does not discriminate against
nor favor any applicant because of race, sex, color, disability,
national origin, religion, creed, age, marital status, citizenship,
veteran status, gender, gender identity / expression, actual or
perceived sexual orientation, or any other protected
characteristic. Equal employment opportunity will be extended in
all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but
not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer,
demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In
addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known
physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant
with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue
hardship on the operation of our business. #LI-NP1 Additional
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Keywords: Gallagher, Chicago , Azure Cloud Engineer, Engineering , Rolling Meadows, Illinois
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