Azure Cloud Ops Engineer (Remote)

Job Description

Description

At Constellation, a freshly independent and soon-to-be Fortune 200 company, we're providing the energy and services to transform our future. Combining next generation technologies and product offerings with the country's lowest carbon generating fleet, our company is purpose-built to meet the challenges of the climate crisis.

Constellation has been the leader in clean energy production for more than a decade. Now we're speeding delivery of low-carbon or no-carbon power to help families, communities, governments, and businesses meet their sustainability and decarbonization goals. Constellation provides 10 percent of total clean power and 22 percent of clean baseload power in the United States and is the leading competitive retail supplier of energy products, services and clean energy solutions. The race is on to confront climate change, and no company is more ready to meet that challenge.

We are committed to advancing diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in attracting, retaining and advancing employees who will best serve and represent our customers, partners and communities. We provide a workplace that ensures mutual respect, where each individual has the opportunity to grow and contribute at their greatest potential. Constellation will provide you the tools and resources you need to design, build and power a successful career.

Constellation offers a wide range of benefits, designed to help our employees thrive professionally and personally. In addition to highly competitive salaries, we offer a bonus program, 401(k) with company match, employee stock purchase program; comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits, including a robust wellness program; paid time off for vacation, holidays and sick days; and much more.

Expected salary range of $(114,300) - $(127,000) per year, varies based on experience, along with comprehensive benefits package that includes bonus and 401k.

Join us as we accelerate the transition to a carbon-free future. Energize your career with Constellation.

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION

Lead activities relating to designing, building, testing, implementing and maintaining solutions, products and processes. Provide IT teams and business personnel with technology solutions by evaluating technology standards, market availability of products, risks and benefits of technology to deliver solutions that meet business/IT needs. Coordinate the tasks of less experienced engineers and collaborate across teams as needed. Independence level: Works independently with minimal guidance. Works closely with scrum masters, project managers, QA, Creative, and UX team members to ensure compliance with project needs. Your role will be centered on the development and improvement of new and existing features. Additionally, you will be reviewing the code of your peers, advocating for standard development methodologies, and participating in an inclusive, energetic and highly cross-functional team. The role encompasses architect, design, implementation, and testing to ensure building products right and to release them with high quality.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Produce high-quality, secure, and maintainable code/configurations
• Learn and understand business processes with limited guidance
• Work collaboratively as a member of the development team to build solutions in an agile environment
• Support and research cloud issues
• Identify areas to improve and scale our Azure architecture and design
• Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security
• Design, develop, and implement highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure
• Analyze existing operational standards, processes, and/or governance to identify and implement improvements
• Migrate existing infrastructure services to cloud-based solutions
• Manage security and access controls of cloud-based solutions
• Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) leveraging cloud native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments
• Develop and implement policy driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss
• Support cloud adoption of applications as they are being transformed and/or modernized
• Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to address and resolve technical escalations
• Engage with business partners to gather information, analyze requirements and deliver practical, efficient and cost-effective solutions that satisfy business needs. Write product specifications and design documentation for assigned system components.
• Design, develop and/or review IaC code or configurations to ensure solutions meet the requirements of functional and technical specifications. Develop and/or review project technical architecture design and development. Solutions may include but are not limited to the development of various types of applications, web, mobile app, full stack or integrations hosted on premises data centers or in the cloud. Develop automated Unit tests and/or automated UI tests.
• Lead team members and provide oversight for less experienced engineers; Stay on top of the latest technologies and trends. Support development of version control principles (e.g. Git and working within an agile environment)
• Enhance knowledge of and compliance with preferred technologies, methodologies, standards and policies. Maintain technical knowledge and business acumen within own discipline or function. Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; lead peer code reviews.
• Provide IT teams and business personnel with technology solutions by weighing advantages of technology trends, market availability of products, risks and benefits of technology to meet business/IT needs. Participate in IT architecture review and standards setting. Assist in the development of white papers, conducting presentations as needed to explain why a technology is being recommended by IT.

JOB SCOPE

• Maintain deep knowledge of technology and its application across our business areas or for our customers
• Promote knowledge via seminars, presentations and publications within IT and Exelon
• Participate in technological innovation to drive new business opportunities and solve complex business problems
• Shape and advance core team processes to increase operational efficiency and quality.
• Coach and lead other engineers assigned to their product or project team.
• Considered highly skilled and proficient in discipline. Conducts complex, important work under minimal supervision and with wide latitude for independent judgment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (ex: Computer Science or related discipline) and 5 - 8 years of relevant experience (programming technologies) or minimum 9-12 years of relevant combination of education and work experience
• 3+ years of Microsoft Azure experience involving design, deployment, configuration and optimization
• 3+ years of experience with IaaS and PaaS solutions
• Experience in the design and operation of medium to large scale enterprise infrastructure, databases and application systems 
• Experience working within an Agile framework
• Experience in IaC development with ARM templates, Bicep, Terraform, Azure CLI or similar
• Experience scripting with PowerShell
• Proficient with GIT (or similar) to perform source code management
• Competence in a wide range of IT skills including networking, systems administration, data protection, information security and CI/CD tooling
• Strong knowledge of Azure Cloud services and offerings
• Understanding of network fundamentals: Firewalls, VPN tunnels; DNS; Load balancers; Subnets; VLANs; etc.
• Experience with leveraging AppInsights to drive Alerting, Monitoring, and Reporting
• Enthusiastic learner with the ability to teach and mentor teammates and cross functional partners
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a keen attention to detail

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Knowledge of Azure Function Apps
• Microservice Architecture
• Background and knowledge of .NET Development, C#, RESTful APIs.
• Service Bus Queue & Event Grids

Constellation is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and employees or applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

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