Data Cloud Engineer
Dixstone
Data Cloud Engineer
Dixstone Group is seeking a Data Cloud Engineer to implement a modern data infrastructure on Microsoft Azure for their global oil and gas operations. The role involves designing and automating cloud infrastructure, ensuring security and high availability, and collaborating with developers. Requires 3+ years of experience with Azure, Terraform, and scripting.
Data Cloud Engineer
Dixstone Group is seeking a Data Cloud Engineer to implement a modern data infrastructure on Microsoft Azure for their global oil and gas operations. The role involves designing and automating cloud infrastructure, ensuring security and high availability, and collaborating with developers. Requires 3+ years of experience with Azure, Terraform, and scripting.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement robust infrastructure standards on Microsoft Azure, ensuring high availability (HA), performance optimization, and global scalability for data workloads.
- Implement IaC solutions for automated provisioning and configuration management using Terraform (or similar solutions, such as Terragrunt and Azure Bicep).
- Establish and maintain Azure DevOps repositories and CI/CD pipelines for version control, automated testing, and collaborative deployment.
- Execute security, backup, and disaster recovery strategies (including firewalls, VNETs, and Private Links), ensuring strict adherence to industry standards and organizational policies.
- Implement technical solutions for automated user provisioning, authentication, and Single Sign-On (SSO) utilizing Microsoft Entra ID.
- Collaborate with developers to engineer secure connections and integration patterns for data exchange between cloud data platforms and various internal/external sources.
- Configure Private Endpoints and Service Endpoints to ensure data never traverses the public internet.
- Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of Cloud VMs, including patching, updates, and version upgrades of applications hosted on cloud infrastructure.
- Proactively monitor infrastructure health, resolve bottlenecks/incidents, and perform routine maintenance to ensure 99.9% uptime.
- Conduct regular capacity planning for Microsoft Azure infrastructure, and set up and execute proactive cloud infra cost management to ensure cost efficiency.
- Liaise with cloud service providers for the deployment and testing of new features, hotfixes, and architectural updates.