Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - On prem to cloud, Azure, SDWAN, Cisco, VMware, F5, Palo Alto

Our global law firm client are currently looking to take on a new Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (On prem to cloud, Azure, SDWAN, Cisco, VMware, F5, Palo Alto) to join their team on a permanent basis. They are a highly reputable firm within the sector known for a highly collaborative environment, pleasant culture and allow a great deal of ownership over projects.

To be considered for this Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (On prem to cloud, Azure, SDWAN, Cisco, VMware, F5, Palo Alto) role, It's ideal that you have the skills mentioned, preferably but not required law firm or professional services experience.

This Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (On prem to cloud, Azure, SDWAN, Cisco, VMware, F5, Palo Alto) role, will include the following duties:

• Ensures efficient functioning of data storage and processing functions in accordance with the firms security policies and best practices in cloud security
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design
• Identifies, analyses, and resolves legacy and cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities and deployment issues
• Implement and manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
• Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training when necessary
• Responsible for optimizing the use of cloud resources to help the company balance performance with costs.
• Responsible for assessing current technologies and preparing for cloud transformation, working with the Platform Engineering team
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills, with an ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
• Develops, maintains and documents infrastructure best practices, guidelines, and guardrails for on-premise and cloud technologies
• Develops and deploys modular cloud-based systems
• Working with the Platform Engineering team, provide automation enhancements to help keep the environment consistent, ease large tasks, ensure compliance, and helps with life cycle management
• Works with vendor partners to test and benchmark new infrastructure solutions. Provides findings to Infrastructure Architects team and appropriate levels of management
• Attends regular vendor meetings for areas of expertise, stays informed of latest technology roadmaps, security notifications, and bug/hot fixes
• Ensures optimization of architecture is accessed before, during and after cloud migrations
• Ensures vendors provide proper levels of support, maintain SLA's and provide root cause analysis for escalated issues
• Works with application and Infrastructure teams, to ensure both new and existing systems follow BC/DR guidelines, have documented plans, and are tested and reviewed on an agreed basis
• Ensures all team, departmental and firm policies and procedures are adhered to, including change management and service continuity
• Completes all administrative tasks, i.e., (time tracking, project and task updates, trouble ticket notes, status reports, responding to email, etc.) accurately and on time
• Fosters trust and builds relationships with the other Information Technology teams both globally and within the region
• Acts as an escalation point for the IT Operations team
• Performsother duties as assigned or required to meet Firm goals and objectives.