Azure Cloud Engineer

The Senior Cloud Engineer designs, implements, and operates secure, scalable, and compliant cloud infrastructure supporting a nationwide finance organization. This role serves as a senior technical contributor and mentor within the infrastructure team, driving cloud modernization, operational excellence, and continuous improvement across Azure-based and hybrid environments. The Senior Cloud Engineer partners with application, security, compliance, and operations teams to ensure cloud solutions align with enterprise architecture, regulatory requirements, and business objectives., * Design, build, and operate secure, highly available Microsoft Azure infrastructure supporting mission-critical financial services platforms.

• Implement and maintain cloud architecture best practices, including infrastructure as code, automation, monitoring, and resiliency.
• Partner with application teams to support cloud-native and hybrid workloads across development, test, and production environments.
• Ensure cloud environments comply with enterprise security, risk, and regulatory requirements common to auto finance and financial services.
• Implement and operate identity, access management, encryption, logging, and security monitoring controls.
• Support incident response, root-cause analysis, and ongoing infrastructure reliability improvements.
• Contribute to cloud standards, documentation, and operational procedures; provide mentorship to junior engineers.
• Additional duties may be added as business needs evolve

• Deep expertise across Microsoft Azure services, including compute, containers, serverless, storage, networking, and identity, with proven ability to design and operate secure, scalable enterprise cloud environments.
• Minimum three years of production experience using Terraform and Azure Bicep, combined with advanced automation skills in PowerShell, Python, and Azure CLI to deliver reliable, repeatable, and self-healing cloud solutions.
• Extensive experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) to support infrastructure deployments, environment promotion, approval workflows, and secure credential management.
• Hands-on experience implementing Azure security and governance controls, including Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Key Vault, RBAC, and Azure Policy, with strong understanding of identity management, OAuth/OIDC, and financial-services regulatory frameworks (e.g., PCI-DSS, SOX, GLBA, FFIEC, SOC 2).
• Strong experience supporting container platforms (AKS, Azure Container Apps, Docker), hybrid networking architectures (ExpressRoute, VPN, DNS, Private Endpoints), and backup and disaster recovery solutions to meet defined RPO/RTO objectives.
• Proficiency with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and KQL, coupled with strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to resolve complex infrastructure, performance, and security issues in high-availability enterprise environments., * Minimum of five years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, with a primary focus on designing, implementing, and supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
• Proven experience in a Senior Cloud Engineer, Cloud Engineer, or IT Systems Engineer role within a large-scale enterprise environment, supporting complex and mission-critical systems.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience