Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure)

Jacksonville Data employs 51,600 people across engineering hubs in Jacksonville and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

Position summary

Jacksonville Data is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure) to join a small, steady team. You'll support existing cloud workloads, handle tickets from app teams and take on migration projects. We're about halfway through moving data centre workloads to the cloud. This hire will help finish the job and clean up after it. Our headquarters is in Jacksonville, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. We engage team members in the UK as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET.

Responsibilities

• Keep architecture diagrams and runbooks current
• Respond to infrastructure tickets and escalations within agreed SLAs
• Automate routine tasks with Python, PowerShell or Lambda functions
• Set up monitoring with CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or Datadog
• Migrate on-premises VMware workloads to EC2 or Azure VMs

Required qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on cloud infrastructure experience
• Windows and Linux server administration experience
• Familiarity with CIS benchmarks, NIST or similar security frameworks
• Networking fundamentals: CIDR, routing, firewalls, DNS, VPN
• Strong knowledge of AWS or Azure core services (compute, storage, networking, IAM)
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash

Preferred

• FinOps practices and tools like CloudHealth or Vantage
• Background in a regulated industry such as healthcare or finance
• AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Azure Administrator (AZ-104) certification
• GCP experience

Perks and benefits

• Monthly internet allowance
• Monthly payments via wire transfer or Wise

Duration: 9 months. Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Jacksonville Data.