Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

The hiring company is confidential. The Senior Azure Cloud Engineer will support the deployment, automation, administration, security, monitoring, and operation of Microsoft Azure infrastructure and applications, collaborating with application, DevOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Provision, configure, administer, and support Microsoft Azure infrastructure and services
• Manage Azure compute, storage, networking, identity, and related cloud resources
• Configure and troubleshoot Azure networking, including VNets, subnets, NSGs, routing, DNS, load balancing, and connectivity
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, with ARM/Bicep familiarity desirable
• Develop automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash, or Python
• Support CI/CD and cloud deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Implement identity and access controls using Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities, and least-privilege principles
• Apply Azure security and governance controls and work with cybersecurity teams to remediate vulnerabilities and configuration issues
• Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
• Support Windows and/or Linux workloads running within Azure
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, application connectivity, deployment, performance, and availability issues
• Support infrastructure/application deployments, upgrades, patching, configuration, and operational support
• Maintain architecture diagrams, configuration documentation, runbooks, and deployment procedures
• Partner with application, data, DevOps, security, and engineering teams to deploy workloads into Azure
• Support automation and standardization across development, test, and production environments

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience
• Azure Virtual Machines, Storage, VNets, and related infrastructure services
• Azure networking and security
• Microsoft Entra ID / Azure identity and RBAC
• Terraform or comparable Infrastructure as Code experience
• Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• PowerShell, Bash, Azure CLI and/or Python scripting
• Windows and/or Linux administration
• Azure monitoring and logging
• Git/source control
• Strong troubleshooting and production-support capabilities
• Docker and/or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Policy and cloud governance
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Firewall and private networking
• Hybrid-cloud/network connectivity
• High availability and disaster recovery
• Cloud cost/resource optimization
• Experience supporting engineering, manufacturing, industrial, or complex enterprise environments
• Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate or similar Azure certification