25 Jan
NOC Azure and Tool Automation Engineer
Vacancy expired!
- Support the cloud servers, including security configurations, patching, and troubleshooting. Also helps to maintain system security strategies, policies, and procedures.
- Manage and provide operational support of data availability and retention systems such as server and SAN based backups and enterprise level backup solutions.
- Manage the instances of the cloud infrastructure services and the multiple cloud servers.
- Develops performance criteria and measurement methods to create dashboards and tools for the Enterprise Operations team to team to work.
- Develop, configure, implement and manage the systems that comprise the underlying cloud platform.
- Operate a Microsoft Azure-based cloud infrastructure be responsible for implementing, monitoring and maintaining Microsoft Azure solutions, including major services related to Network and Security.
- Develop automation to better correlate data and ensure only actionable incidents are created for the operations teams to respond to.
- Ensuring the security posture for the virtual environment by monitoring system security, documenting system configurations, and ensuring compliance with industry best practices, DA regulations, and STIGs.
- Implement, monitor and maintain MS Azure solutions and major services related to compute, network, security, and storage.
- Automates statistical research and reports.
- Manage storage solutions for VM virtual hard disks, database files, user data, and application data
- Support the cloud and physical servers, including security configurations, patching, and troubleshooting. Also helps to maintain system security strategies, policies, and procedures.
- Measure system usage by workload type, identifying trends and estimating further resource requirements.
- Experience with Hyper-V installation and administration
- Create and maintain VM templates used for rapid deployment of virtual machines.
- Install and configure the Windows operating system in cloud IaaS providers.
- Monitor and analyzes the capabilities and performance of the systems.
- Analyze and translate business requirements into a solution design for new installations or upgrades to existing platforms.
- Maintain, configure and utilize new and existing monitoring tools to support/enhance the environment.
- Implement alerting escalation within the NOC toolset.
- Provide best practices recommendations to help filter out false positive alerts.
- Perform gap analysis for immediate relief on False-positive and non-actionable alerting
- Assist in developing metric based reporting for the tools infrastructure
- Support testing, configuration, documentation, implementation, and maintenance of network management tools capabilities.
- Provides specific detailed information for hardware and software selection of tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
- Provides input into project status reports and participate in tracking and management of project issues and risks.
- Create and maintain global standard documentation for network management platforms and automation
- Perform installation, maintenance and upgrade of NOC tools and corresponding operating systems.
- Current/Active DoD Secret clearance
- DoD 8570.1-M IAT level II certification (CompTIA CySA+, CompTIA Security+, CCNA-Security, GICSP, GSEC, or SSCP)
- Experience with Azure Monitor and Sentinel
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills; experience with customer service and problem resolution
- Understanding of network monitoring protocols including SNMP, NetFlow, WMI, syslog, etc.
- Expert troubleshooting skills in SNMP, Connectivity, Hardware, Software, Agents
- Experience with Microsoft PowerShell, Microsoft PowerApps, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft OneDrive
- Strong oral and written communication and organization skills
- Ability to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing to IT and non-IT staff
- Ability to work independently and as a member of a team to deliver high quality work
- Must be proficient with all Microsoft 0365 applications/services/tools
- Understanding of basic network concepts, familiarity with TCP/IP and VLAN functionality
- Demonstrative written and verbal communication skills to audiences with a wide variety of technical knowledge
- Very strong troubleshooting skills with a focus on root cause analysis and practical issue resolution
- Strong understanding of universal network services (DNS, HTTP, LDAP, DHCP)
- Knowledge of one or more scripting languages (PHP, Bourne shell, Ruby, Python)
- Experience with working with network discovery tools and building visualization of networks
- Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
- Working knowledge of Azure Network Performance Monitor (NPM), Azure Monitor, NPM for Azure Express Route, Azure Security Center and Azure Network Watcher.
- Previous experience with documentation and content management and development of process documentation
- Proficient in scripting languages such as JavaScript, Python, PERL, BASH, PowerShell
- Experience with SAFe methodology
- Experience working in an enterprise cloud operations environment.
- Experience using automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible) to deploy and configure environments
- ITIL V3/4 Foundation Certification
- Experience with IT Service Management tools and continuous service improvement
- Experience supporting large IT projects leveraging Agile methodology
- REST API development experience and code versioning tools such as Git
Vacancy expired!