Senior Azure Cloud Specialist

Job ID:  27978

We are looking for a Senior Azure Cloud  Support Specialist in Warsaw to improve our cloud support. You will get the chance to work in a team of over a dozen employees and external consultants to drive Nordea network support.

About our team
 

In this position you will be collaborating closely with Cloud Engineering (governance, security, architecture & design) team running projects & defining infrastructure’s future and the external company doing most of daily support operation work from India. You will focus on reducing the number and duration of major incidents, resource optimization (people's work, servers, licenses, etc.), improving support for other teams doing IT operation and development. The team will work in hybrid mode, at least 2 days per week from the office.

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

What you’ll be doing  
 

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Show an advanced understanding of Azure technologies, virtualization operations and governance with a focus on automation, analysis, modification and testing of cloud services
• Design, build, implement and maintain automation in order to optimize virtualization platform spend, identify and remediate security risks and safeguard compliance across cloud platform.
• Identifies, verifies and remediates inconsistent configurations
• Implement proactive health checks and internal audits to ensure comprehensive and reliable monitoring coverage
• Construct, improve and maintain automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD)
• Usage of source code management tool (e.g. GitHub) to manage code lifecycle
• Perform troubleshooting, resolution, and problem analysis
• Prepare technical documentation, including software design evaluation plans, test results and technical manuals
• Seek opportunities to discover new and better solutions.
• Communicates basic platform concepts to technical audiences and management: technical issues and problems to service provider to solve problems and install and test new components
• Identify and pursue opportunities for self-improvement of technical and non-technical skills
• Take the initiative to do what needs to be done without being asked
• Articulate and advocate new technical and non-technical ideas within the team

Who you are
 

This is the right role for you if you are:

• Result oriented, proactive in automation and optimization
• Analytical, accurate and taking care of details, caring for quality
• Taking ownership and delivering results
• Collaborative, having team player approach

Desirable experience and skills, you don't have to have them all, to be a good candidate:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Azure (AWS, GCP will be a plus)
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Ability to use scripting languages and APIs to facilitate cloud automation
• Experience with “Well-Architected Framework” principals, infrastructure as code practices - Terraform and agile development methodologies
• Working knowledge of JIRA, DevOps and CI/CD principles and practices.
• Inter-cultural understanding and experience
• Skilled at daily IT management 
• Skilled at planning and controlling IT operations
• Have proficiency in English, spoken and written B2
• Experienced with working for a financial institution

What we offer
 

People come here when they want to get somewhere. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!
 

Next steps

Submit your application no later than 31/01/2025.

The recruitment process consists of the following steps:  

• Preliminary CV selection  
• Phone conversation with the recruiter  
• Online interview with the hiring leader   
• Background check   

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.   

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