Senior Cloud Engineer

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Our client, a global financial services firm, is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join their team in New York, NY!

The Senior Cloud Engineer will help lead the solution architecture, engineering, and operations for the Azure and Microsoft M365 platforms while incorporating DevOps practices to ensure maximum utilization and productivity are extracted while maintaining security and compliance requirements. This role will work closely with the core infrastructure team.

Responsibilities : Cloud Engineering

• Help lead the design, implementation, and delivery of Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS including Compute, Networking, Security, IAM, Backup, Monitoring, and Data / BI.
• Help lead the design, implementation, and delivery of the Microsoft 365 platform, with a focus on Messaging (Exchange Online), Communications (Teams), Collaboration (SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business), Security (Azure MFA, AIP, ARM, ATP, M365 Security Center), Endpoint (Microsoft Endpoint Manager, Intune, W365), Microsoft 365 Apps (Power Automate), Compliance (PAM, AME, Compliance Center), Active Directory, Microsoft Entra, and Azure Storage.
• Support virtualization technologies like VMware in hybrid environment.
• Design, develop, create, and manage a best practice operating model across the platform in hybrid environments.
• Implement and manage Microsoft Purview for data governance, compliance, and data catalog capabilities across the organization.
• Help oversee Microsoft Copilot administration across the platform.
• Maintain a highly secure system through proper security configuration to ensure security & regulatory compliance requirements are met.
• Work closely with the network and security team to ensure integrated and secure infrastructure solutions.
• Ensure the highest possible system and service availability through an intelligent responsive redundant design and services.
• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) resource for Microsoft 365, Azure, and emerging AI technologies.

Dev / DevOps and Automation

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