Azure Cloud Engineer II-IN (R-18693 Build Engineer )

JOB TITLE: Azure Cloud Engineer II (Build Engineer)
JOB TITLE:Azure Cloud Engineer II ( Build Engineer)
Requisites (Must Haves ):
Az-104 Certified
Terraform Certified.
Able to create environment via Terraform, ARM and Console.
Good knowledge of all services of Azure, DB (SQL, MySQL etc,), Networking, Storage including AKS .
Ability to troubleshoot existing Terraform scripts
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The Fanatical Support for Azure team provides industry leading Fanatical Support™ to Rackspace customers as part of a global team.
As the #1 Managed Cloud Company, Rackspace is hiring Azure Cloud Administrators to deliver Fanatical Support with Azure. Fanatical Support for Azure includes a wide range of services and features to help customers make the most out of their chosen hosting strategy. Using your technical expertise, you will help customers maintain their application stability and assist with rapid changes using native Azure and 3rd party tools.
Through a hands-on approach, you will be responsible for supporting customers with tasks including: responding to application and infrastructure down time alerts, performing limited environment and OS changes, and interacting with customers via tickets and phones.
At Rackspace we pride ourselves on our ability to deliver Fanatical Support - this means our support team blends technical expertise and strong customer oriented professional skills.  Being successful in this role requires:
·Working knowledge of Azure Products & Services, Scaling, Load Balancing, CDNs, Networking etc
·Intermediate working knowledge of Windows or Linux operating systems – experience with supporting and troubleshooting stability and performance issues
·Basic understanding of central networking concepts: VLANs, layer2/3 routing, access lists & load balancing
·Intermediate understanding of design of native Cloud applications, Cloud application design patterns and practices
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
Key Accountabilities
·Maintain stability of Azure Cloud environments
·Respond to customer support requests via tickets and phone calls within response time SLAs
·Ticket Queue Management and Ticket triaging – escalating to engineers when required & handing over ongoing issues to 24x7 shifts
·Troubleshoot performance degradation or loss of service as time critical incidents
·Ownership of issues, including collaboration with other teams and escalation
·Support the success and development of others in the team
·Deliver Fanatical Support on the Microsoft Azure platform.
·Respond to customer support requests via both the ticket and phone systems within our SLA commitments.
·Troubleshoot outages or degradations in customer environments.
·Carry out administrative tasks such as patching and backup.
·Drive strong customer satisfaction (measured through the Net Promoter Score system)
·Own issues on behalf of customers, escalating inside the team or working in collaboration with other teams where needed.
Key Performance Indicators
·Customer Satisfaction scores - NPS
·Performance indicators – Ticket queues, response times, first time fix
·Quality indicators – Peer review, customer feedback
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
·        Technical achiever with a strong work ethic, creative, collaborative, team player
·        An intermediate background in Azure and/or demonstrative hosting-specific technical skills:
·        At least one Azure industry standard certification (Practitioner, Associate, Professional, or Specialty)
·        Strong communications skills, written and verbal
·        Passion for technology and desire to learn
·        Ability to prioritize under pressure
·        Sound problem solving ability
·        Strong documentation skills
·        Process improvement – identification & solution