Senior Cloud Engineer

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** An exciting career awaits you
** At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.# Position Summary This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.  

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Key Responsibilities
* Designs, implements, and manages Azure PaaS and cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and security services, ensuring reliability and scalability.
* Develops and maintains Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to automate provisioning and management of cloud resources.
* Enables containerization and orchestration through Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to support high-availability workloads.
* Delivers consumable patterns, templates, and reference architectures that accelerate adoption and consistency.
* Develops a road map toward continual expansion, improvement, and efficiency gains for existing systems and new implementations based on business requirements
* Facilitates performance optimization and infrastructure cost analysis and remediation.
* Recommends solutions to eliminate problems in response to service monitoring outputs. Partners with the infrastructure support and development teams to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems.
* Facilitates all aspects of the cloud development life cycle for cloud solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance.
* Implements system-wide quality improvements by undertaking thorough root cause analysis for major incidents with component engineering teams.
* Monitors the troubleshooting of incidents, identifying root cause, fixing and documenting problems, and implementing preventive measures. Ensures documentation of all facets of on-premises and cloud infrastructure focused solutions.
* Utilizes configuration management software to deploy updates into the cloud environment
* Maintains system configurations and baselines to support secure application development software control best practices and standards.
* Drives shared solutions for application teams and define platform / tools / vendor agnostic patterns to suit applications' needs.
* Builds code in multiple languages to improve service reliability and ensure standardization, reliability, scalability, continuity, and consistency for resource deployments and maintenance.#

Education and Experience
* Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
* Five (5) or more years of relevant experience required.
* Experience using cloud platforms required, experience using Azure highly preferred.
* Experience using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) required, experience using Terraform highly preferred.
* Experience using CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices, highly preferred.
* Hands-on experience with containers, Docker and Kubernetes Service preferred.# Skills
* ** Cloud Computing** - Knowing how to manage cloud services, develop cloud applications and use cloud architecture to meet customer needs.
* ** Cloud Infrastructure Management** - Setting up, configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the components of cloud infrastructure.
* ** Cloud Networking** - Cloud networking refers to the practice of using cloud-based infrastructure and services to facilitate efficient communication, data transfer, and connectivity between devices, applications, and users over the internet. It involves leveraging cloud computing resources to optimize network performance, scalability, and accessibility, enabling organizations to securely access and manage their data and applications from anywhere.
* ** Cloud Storage** - The ability to design, implement, manage and maintain cloud-based storage solutions leveraging cloud storage concepts and technologies with a working knowledge of cloud storage architecture and cloud storage security leveraging cloud-based storage tools and platforms.
* ** Containerization** -…