Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is recruiting an experienced Azure Cloud Platform Engineer for an onsite contract position in Houston, TX. The role focuses on deploying, administering, automating, optimizing, and supporting enterprise applications hosted on Microsoft Azure, including Azure Windows Server VMs and Azure SQL Managed Instance. The engineer will also collaborate with technical and business stakeholders and develop repeatable deployment and configuration processes.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, administer, automate, optimize, and support business-critical enterprise applications hosted on Azure
• Supporting Commercial, ETRM/CTRM, Market Data, and vendor applications
• Collaborating with application development, business SMEs, vendors, and engineering teams
• Building repeatable deployment and configuration processes

Skills

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure
• Strong expertise in Windows Server
• Strong expertise in Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Strong expertise in DevOps
• Strong expertise in GitHub Actions
• Strong expertise in Terraform
• Strong expertise in PowerShell
• Deep experience in Azure Windows Server VMs
• Deep experience in IIS
• Deep experience in Windows Services
• Deep experience in scheduled tasks
• Deep experience in certificates
• Deep experience in Git
• Deep experience in CI/CD
• Deep experience in SQL diagnostics
• Deep experience in performance tuning
• Deep experience in capacity planning
• Deep experience in monitoring
• Deep experience in root cause analysis
• Proven track record of supporting Commercial, ETRM/CTRM, Market Data, and vendor applications
• Collaborating with application development, business SMEs, vendors, and engineering teams
• Building repeatable deployment and configuration processes

Benefits

• Onsite position based in Houston, TX

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