Azure Cloud Manager

Through our dedicated associates, Conduent delivers mission-critical services and solutions on behalf of Fortune 100 companies and over 500 governments – creating exceptional outcomes for our clients and the millions of people who count on them.

You have an opportunity to personally thrive, make a difference and be part of a culture where individuality is noticed and valued every day.

Why Conduent:

You’ll have an opportunity to work on innovative technology while being surrounded by a culture that recognizes each person’s contributions. Each day you’ll feel challenged and know you are making a difference. At Conduent, we believe everything touches everything -and to that end we value our work and each other in the process, making it an award winning place to work. In 2021, we won Best Places to Work, Best Global Culture and Best HR Team.

As a Senior Manager in our Document Management & Automation team, you will manage a team of Architects and Infrastructure & DevOps Engineers implementing and managing the Azure Kubernetes (AKS) based infrastructure for the Conduent Automation Platform (CAP), a Platform as a Service approach to business automation. You will provide hands-on Azure and Kubernetes implementation expertise to the development organization for addressing operational issues, proactively preventing problems, and supporting software development efforts.

This is a hands on leadership role at Conduent.

You’ll be responsible for identifying deficiencies in the current design and recommend solutions for scaling, resiliency, and security and guide implementation of improvements. As part of ongoing improvement tasks, you will recommend emerging technologies to improve service, reduce cost, security and improve scalability. Working with the compliance product owner, you will ensure product alignment with security architecture to meet audit requirements.

We need someone who can:

• Provide excellent leadership, has an innovative approach and a proven track record of delivering complex software products, and a passion for implementing robust solutions
• Use your distinctive combination of knowledge and hands-on expertise related to Cloud
• Leverage the Automation platform to achieve their goals
• Engage the IT Operations, Security, and DevOps stakeholders to understand how we can deliver the benefits of “cloud” to our organizations while reducing the risks through automation
• Develop custom proof-of-concept solutions using the Automation platform for immediate customer impact while helping bring the best ideas back into the core product offering.
• Provide technical problem solving and deep solution expertise to the customer and Development teams. Provide technical leadership, guidance, and help to drive the cloud strategy
• Leverage hands-on customer experience and proof-points to educate and engage the broader community of prospects, customers, partners and coworkers

Basic Qualifications for Consideration:

• Bachelor’s Degree or relevant working experience
• Minimum of 3 years of experience on micro services architecture and cloud design patterns
• Minimum of 5 years people leadership
• Experience managing Azure Infrastructure, DevOps and/or Azure security disciplines
• Domain expertise of cloud infrastructure solutions (i.e. Windows and Linux IaaS, BCDR, Security, Management, Storage, Networking, OSS, SSO, Containers and Infra as a code technologies), breadth of technical experience, and technical aptitude to learn and adjust to new technologies and cloud trends
• Experience installing, configuring, and administering Kubernetes distributions including security, compliance, and automation
• Experience with complex IT infrastructure architecture planning, design, and implementation.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience is needed in Kubernetes (AKS), Helm, Azure Networking, Azure Application Gateway, Azure DevOps, and DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working with ARM Azure templates
• Advance knowledge of BICEP
• Understanding of Microsoft Identity and Access Management products including Azure AD
• Microsoft Azure Operational and Monitoring tools, including Azure Monitor, App Insights and Log Analytics
• Knowledge of testing infrastructure as a code, functional and load testing
• Proficient verbal and written communication skills necessary to effectively collaborate in a team environment and present and explain technical information

Preferred Qualifications For Consideration:

• Applicable certifications such as Azure Network Engineer Associate, Azure Architect Certification, Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate
• Experience with compliance standards such as PCI, NIST, SOC, and HIPAA
• Experience with PaaS or SaaS development
• Experience on NoSQL databases (Cosmos DB) nice to have
• Agile process experience

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The Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act requires employers to disclose the following information. If the successful applicant will be required to perform work from a physical site outside Colorado, the following information may not apply. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. In addition to base pay, this position, based on business need, may be eligible for a bonus or incentive. In addition, Conduent provides a variety of benefits to employees including health insurance coverage, voluntary dental and vision programs, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, and paid time off (PTO) or vacation or sick time.

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