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About the position Responsibilities • Provide advice and assistance in state-of-the-art software/hardware solutions involving hardware of various capacities, multiple operating environments, database management systems specialized software, data communications facilities and protocols including fourth generation technologies, and complex software tools or packages. • Work with senior client officials to identify enterprise improvement goals, assess organizational and process effectiveness, and implement change strategies. • Assist with deployment, configuration, and management Azure Cloud environment. • Assist with migration efforts of existing ETL jobs into Azure/Databricks cloud environment. • Assist ETL staff with following best practices for Cloud, maximizing efficiency of cloud resources, and general knowledge sharing of cloud expertise with AA Cloud Staff. • Assist with Operationalizing deployments and support of Cloud services for ETL Operations, including standardizing and automating processes and workflows, creating documentation/knowledge articles, and overall assistance Operations staff who have limited experience in Cloud. • Evaluate programs, disseminating findings, consulting and collaborating with others, and adhering to ethical standards. Requirements • Master’s Degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services. • 15+ years of IT Architecture/Systems experience. • 10+ years of experience designing technical and business solutions, mentoring, and training client staff, and overseeing implementation. • Strong Cloud Operations support experience in regard to Azure. • Strong experience supporting large scale/enterprise level Cloud environments. • Strong experience supporting several cloud services related to compute, network, databases, etc. • Experience in using Databricks or other Spark-based platforms. • Knowledge of or experience in using any of the following: Sqoop, Oozie, Flume. • Fluency in at least one scripting language (Python, Perl, Ruby or equivalent). • Ability to troubleshoot cloud resource problems and perform complex system tests. • Develop and maintain accurate documentation for internal procedures and services. • Ability to automate solutions to repetitive problems/tasks. • Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and cloud services. • Integration of Git, in continuous deployment. • Experience with DevOps monitoring tools. • Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service. • Creative thinking skills. • Detail-oriented personality. • Ability to communicate well to other members of the development team. • Significant experience with SAS, Python, C++, Hadoop, SQL Database/Coding, Apache Spark, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and visualization tools such as Tableau. • Demonstrated experience working with unstructured data. Nice-to-haves • Strong understanding of cloud networking at scale. • Ability to break down complex networking concepts and present them in a concise way. • Shell scripting experience. • Data Transfer knowledge. • Conduct knowledge-transfer sessions as necessary to share best practices and template code/scripts in areas such as Monitoring, Troubleshooting, Incident Alerting, Incident Avoidance, Development of dashboards, Settings and configuration, Security, Testing the platform and/or application(s), Preparing audit compliance reports. • Reporting expertise producing and delivering monthly status reports to inform the Client of its progress and identify any anticipated problems.

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