Selene Holdings is a multi‑line business financial services firm with a mortgage servicing company, a loan diligence company, a title company, an insurance brokerage, and a real‑estate owned company. We have office locations in Dallas, TX; Jacksonville, FL; and Salt Lake City, UT. Founded in 2007 to address needs in the mortgage industry, Selene strives to provide amazing client and borrower experiences. A positive attitude coupled with proven creative thinking and actions are all attributes we seek in every one of our employees. If you want to make a difference, then Selene is the place for you!
Position Summary
The Sr. Azure Engineer will manage and maintain Selene’s Azure cloud infrastructure. This role involves ensuring the stability, security, and performance of our cloud environments, supporting our financial services applications, and collaborating with cross‑functional teams to implement cloud solutions that meet business needs.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
* Cloud Architecture Design: Architect robust and scalable Azure solutions aligned with business requirements, including compute, storage, networking, database, and application services.
* Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Utilize tools like Terraform or Azure Resource Manager templates to define and manage infrastructure through code, ensuring consistency and repeatability.
* Automation: Develop and maintain automation scripts to streamline cloud deployments, configuration management, and operational tasks using tools like PowerShell or Python.
* Performance Optimization: Monitor and analyze Azure resource utilization to identify and address performance bottlenecks, optimize costs, and ensure efficient resource allocation.
* Security Implementation: Design and enforce robust security measures across the Azure environment, including access controls, data encryption, vulnerability management, and compliance with industry standards.
* Cloud Monitoring and Logging: Implement comprehensive monitoring solutions to proactively identify and resolve issues, analyze system health, and generate actionable insights.
* Technical Leadership: Mentor junior engineers, provide guidance on best practices, and troubleshoot complex Azure issues.
* Cost Management: Analyze cloud spending, identify cost optimization opportunities, and implement strategies to control Azure costs.
* Azure Infrastructure Management: Deploy, configure, and manage Azure resources, including virtual machines, storage accounts, app services, and networking components.
* Office 365 Management: Monitor, configure, and manage Office 365 resources, including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, users, permissions, and roles.
* Backup and Recovery: Develop and manage backup and disaster recovery plans to protect critical data and ensure business continuity.
* Collaboration: Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to design and implement cloud solutions that align with business objectives.
* Assess and Optimize Cloud Infrastructure: Continuously evaluate emerging Azure technologies and best practices to enhance scalability, security, and performance. Identify opportunities to optimize existing cloud infrastructure, ensuring cost efficiency while maintaining high availability and reliability. Implement governance policies and automation to streamline resource utilization and reduce waste.
* Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation of configurations, processes, and procedures.
Qualifications
* Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Or, equivalent work experience.
* Experience: A minimum of 5 years of experience in Azure IaaS/PaaS
o Managing complex native and hybrid cloud solutions
o Designing and implementing solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform, including compute, storage, networking, databases, and application services
o Supporting DevOps practices and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines
* Certifications: Azure Administrator Associate is required; Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Azure DevOps Engineer Expert are desirable.
* Technical Skills: Proficiency in Azure services, PowerShell, Azure CLI, and other relevant tools. Strong understanding of networking, security, and compliance in cloud environments.
* Soft Skills: Excellent problem‑solving abilities, strong communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively in a team‑oriented environment.
Competencies
* Adaptability – adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands, and changes approach or method to best fit the situation.
* Business Ethics – treats people with respect, keeps commitments, inspires trust, works with integrity and ethics, upholds organizational values.
* Communications – expresses ideas and thoughts verbally and in writing, exhibits good listening and comprehension, keeps others adequately informed.
* Customer Service – displays courtesy and sensitivity, manages difficult or emotional customer situations, meets commitments, responds promptly to customer needs and solicits feedback to improve service.
* Dependability – responds to requests for service and assistance, follows instructions, takes responsibility for own actions, commits to doing the best job possible, keeps commitments, meets attendance and punctuality guidelines.
* Teamwork – balances team and individual responsibilities, exhibits objectivity and openness to others’ views, gives and welcomes feedback, contributes to building a positive team spirit, puts success of team above own interests.
* Language Ability – ability to read and interpret documents, write routine reports, and speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
* Mathematical Ability – ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume; apply basic algebra and geometry.
* Reasoning Ability – apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form; deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
* Computer Skills – working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and Outlook); previous experience with MSP, Black Knight/LPS and Fiserv preferred.
Travel: Some travel may be required.
Work Environment: This position works in a typical office environment with moderate noise levels.
Physical Demands: The employee is regularly required to sit while working at a desk, occasionally standing, walking, and using hands to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. May also climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Needs to be able to talk and hear; no special vision required beyond the ability to see to read.
Why Selene?
Benefits
* Paid Time Off (PTO)
* Medical, Dental & Vision
* Employee Assistance Program
* Flexible Spending Account
* Health Savings Account
* Paid Holidays
* Company paid Life Insurance
* Matching 401(k) Plan
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