Description:
Cloud Application Specialist
Must Haves
- Minimum 8–10+ years of hands-on experience in cloud application development and engineering,
- Demonstrated recent expertise in Microsoft Azure (App Services, Azure Functions, AKS), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift), and DevOps/automation tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines), including building and integrating scalable, cloud-native enterprise solutions.
- Demonstrated experience in enterprise cloud architecture, security (IAM, encryption, compliance), data engineering (ETL/ELT, Azure data services), observability (monitoring/logging), and advanced DevOps/Develops practices, including API-driven integration, CI/CD pipeline design, and scalable, high-availability solution delivery
- Experience with writing code to interact with RESTful APIs to replace manual processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes.
- Demonstrated experience designing, developing and implementing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with integrated security (Develops)
Role Overview
Responsibilities:
- Create applications that are served on the cloud
- Create the software platform to run on virtual systems
- Fine-tune the final program after it has been created
- Facilitate IT development, design, construction, testing, promotion, implementation of web-based/n-tier, cloud-based and mainframe applications for workstreams.
- Responsible for development utilizing a combination of cloud technologies to develop an integrated solution for online transactional processing and integration
- Responsible for in integration of any Open-Source Software (OSS) products into new and existing systems
- Creation and walk-through of Systems Response documents, Technical Specifications, Application Inventory, and Implementation Plans.
- Preparation of test plans, test data, and unit-testing of programs.
- Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of programs.
- System Support/Documentation
- As assigned, response to client queries and troubleshooting of production incidents.
- Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs as well as test case and test results walkthroughs.
- Support testing of the changes by other team members.
- Weekly reporting on status, progress, and key issue/concerns as directed by the Project Lead/Project Manager or Portfolio Manager.
- Transfer skills and knowledge to selected OPS staff
General Skills
- Experience creating applications that are served on the cloud
- Experience creating the software platform to run on virtual systems
- Experience fine-tuning the final program after it has been made
- Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle from business systems analysis through requirements gathering and functional specification
- Ability to troubleshoot code and make system changes as needed to resolve issues
- Experience modifies existing software to correct errors to adapt it to new hardware or to upgrade interfaces and improve performance
- Experience consulting with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software
- Experience developing specifications and performance requirements and resolving customer problems
- Must know at least one programming language and should be proficient in that
- Be familiar with software development concepts and databases
- Fluency with Hypervisor and Virtualization techniques
- Have at least fundamental knowledge of cloud computing and basic Networking skills
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team
- A team player with proven track record for meeting deadlines