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Azure Tech Lead
full-time•Plano
About this role
Overview
It's an exciting time to be a member of the Fisher Investments Technology Department. We're investing in the future of our firm's technology and are building our team to achieve global growth. We are looking for an Azure Technical Lead to support our Cloud Platform team. If you are looking for an opportunity to make an impact as we develop scalable and strategic solutions to support our global growth, we want to hear from you!
The Opportunity:
As an Azure Technical Lead, you will report to the Cloud Platform Team Lead and will be responsible for mentoring, supporting, and teaching a team of cloud engineers in designing, implementing, and managing our Azure-based cloud infrastructure. As a hands-on Technical Lead, you will consult and contribute to process improvements of IT policies, procedures, tools, security controls and infrastructure. You will also conduct research and proof of concept activities and provide recommendations for new technologies, techniques and tools to add value by increasing efficiency while improving service quality.
The Day-to-Day:
- Guide, mentor, and manage a team of cloud engineers promoting a collaborative and high-performance work environment
- Conduct regular team meetings for code reviews, cross team collaboration opportunities, design reviews and training sessions to ensure continuous development and alignment with our goals
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis for Cloud platform services
- Aide in designing and managing scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure and automation tooling for routine operation tasks
- Oversee the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of Azure resources
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of the Azure environment through proactive monitoring, optimization, and troubleshooting
- Manage cloud costs and increase resource usage to achieve cost efficiency
- Work with solution architects and partners to confirm developed solutions align with existing standards, meet security controls and meet cloud computing best practices
- Identify opportunities for process improvements, automation, and the use of new technologies to enhance the Azure cloud environment
- Stay up to date with the latest Azure features, tools, and best practices, and share this knowledge with the team
- Investigate and monitor current-state cloud usage, solutions in use, risks, gaps, limitations and recommend solutions, optimizations and remediation
- Ensure cloud services and toolsets are deployed with best practices and documentation
Your Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure cross platform technology areas, with implementing and maintaining expertise of Azure cloud services.
- 5+ years of experience building, deploying and managing IaaS and PaaS services on Microsoft Azure platform.
- 4+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, including building reusable modules, managing state, and promoting infrastructure changes through automated CI/CD pipelines.
- 1+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads is preferred
- Hands-on experience implementing Azure security and governance controls, including Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, secure landing zones, identity governance, secret management and compliance enforcement.
- Strong working networking knowledge (DNS, routing, firewalls, and private access)
- Scripting and automation of builds, workflows, tasks and other integration aspects
- Linux and Microsoft Windows server administration
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
- Azure DevOps Engineer Expert or Azure Solutions Architect Expert cloud certification
Why Fisher Investments:
We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. We take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and development framework customized for every employee, and our Great Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional benefits like:
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents
- A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
- 20 days of PTO, plus 10 paid holidays
- Family Support programs including 8 week Paid Primary Caregiver Leave, $10,000 fertility, family forming, and hormonal health assistance, and back-up child, adult, and elder care
- This is an in-office role. Based on your role, tenure, and performance eligibility you may have the opportunity to participate in our hybrid work from home program. This program is subject to change.
FISHER INVESTMENTS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
What you'll do
- The Azure Technical Lead will guide, mentor, and manage a team of cloud engineers while leading incident response and root cause analysis for Cloud platform services. Responsibilities also include designing, managing scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure, overseeing Azure resource implementation, and managing cloud costs for efficiency.
About Fisher Investments
Fisher Investments is an independent, fee-only investment adviser serving clients across three principal business units: US Private Client, Institutional and Private Client International. Together, these groups serve a diverse global client base that includes corporations, public and multi-employer pension funds, foundations and endowments, governments and high net worth families.
Fisher Investments was founded in 1979 by Ken Fisher, who served as CEO for 37 years and now serves as Executive Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer. Ken wrote the Forbes “Portfolio Strategy” column from 1984 through 2016, making him the longest continuously running columnist in the magazine’s history. He now writes monthly, native language columns in major media organs around the world, spanning more countries and more languages in more total reach than any other, non-syndicated columnist of any type ever. Ken has written 11 books—including 4 New York Times bestsellers—and has regularly appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, Fox News, CNN International, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg TV, and numerous other financial news outlets.
For more information on Fisher Investments, please visit www.fisherinvestments.com.
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