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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Cloud Disaster Recovery Engineer - **Company:** OpenKyber LLC - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Application Performance Management, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Data Systems, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Network Security, PostgreSQL, SQL Azure, Network Control, OAuth, OpenID, Role-Based Access Control, Prometheus, Data Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Grafana, Database Optimization, Caching, Cosmos DB, Azure AKS, Terraform - **Published:** May 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e1c1719bc59eb66a ## About the Role * Expert Azure Knowledge: Deep understanding of the Azure control plane and service portfolio. You know the limits, quotas, and architectural trade-offs of AKS, App Service, Networking, and Storage. * Infrastructure as Code (Terraform): Strong proficiency in Terraform. You understand how to architect modular, reusable, and testable infrastructure code for enterprise environments. * Advanced Data Patterns: Experience designing high-availability data solutions using Azure SQL/PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB (Multi-region write/read), and caching strategies. * Network Engineering: Strong grasp of Azure networking fundamentals, including Virtual Networks, Application Gateways, Azure Front Door/Traffic Manager, and private connectivity. * Production Operations: Experience with observability stacks (Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Prometheus) and designing for day-2 operations. * Security & Identity: Proficiency with Entra ID OIDC/OAuth flows, RBAC models, and cloud security posture management (CSPM). Nice to Have: * Experience with Wiz or similar cloud security tools. * Background in FinOps, including cost anomaly detection and budget enforcement. * Familiarity with GitOps principles (ArgoCD/Flux) and CI/CD workflows. * Experience interacting with Azure management APIs. ## Description Location Charlotte, NC (2 days (Tuesday & Wednesday) a week onsite from day 1) Client: OpenKyber Job Description: Customer is building an enterprise-scale internal developer platform designed to eliminate infrastructure friction. Our goal is to provide application teams with a seamless experience that balances speed and flexibility with strict security, compliance, and cost governance. As a Senior Azure Architect, you will be a key contributor to the standards and patterns that power this platform. You will design the standardized architectures that allow clients' engineering teams to deploy complex, production-ready workloads securely and reliably. You will bridge the gap between infrastructure operations and developer experience, ensuring our cloud architecture scales effectively with the business., * Enterprise Architecture Design: Develop and refine reference architectures for our compute runtime, analyzing workload requirements to determine the best fit across Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, and Azure App Service. * Resilience & Disaster Recovery: Architect robust Tier 1 systems capable of Active-Active multiregion deployment (RTO Network & Security Architecture: Design secure networking fabrics, including Hub-and-Spoke models, Private Link/Endpoints, and DNS strategies. * Implement "Security by Design" using Entra ID (Managed Identities, Federated Credentials) and rigorous policy enforcement. * Standardization & Governance: Translate complex infrastructure requirements into reusable, policy-compliant patterns. 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