Azure Cloud Engineer

Protos IT

United States

6 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Temporary contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

5 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.dice.com

Tech stack

Microsoft Azure Software as a Service Cloud Computing Cloud Engineering System Configuration Continuous Integration Software Design Patterns Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) OpenShift Platform as a Service (PAAS) Windows PowerShell Role-Based Access Control

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Azure Active Directory Cloud Services Zero Trust Network Access Systems Integration Virtual Machines Policy as Code Cloud Platform System Containerization Kubernetes Information Technology Bicep Terraform Devsecops Azure Resource Manager

Requirements

Minimum 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure roles, including 5+ years focused on Azure cloud engineering.

Demonstrated experience designing and managing secure, highly available cloud environments for enterprise services.
Proven experience leading Azure cloud migration and modernization efforts in regulated environments.
Experience designing, configuring, and administering Azure cloud enterprise implementations using compute cloud resources such as Virtual Machines, Scale sets, Azure containers or Kubernetes, and Cloud Services.
Strong experience with Azure tools such as Azure DevOps, Repos, Pipelines, and Boards.
Experienced in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as a service (SaaS) Cloud Hosting Architecture/Design patterns to meet scalability, capacity, availability, performance, storage, cost, and application/platform requirements

Technical Skills:

Cloud networking, storage, app services, virtualization, and containerization
DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation practices
Infrastructure-as-Code at production scale: PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform, with reusable modules, automated validation, and drift detection.
Cloud governance, policy enforcement, operational compliance and security in Azure: Azure Policy, RBAC, conditional access, managed identities
Zero-trust security principles, networking design patterns, and secure cloud configuration practices
Microsoft Entra Identity services

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Experience supporting federal agency IT environments with FISMA/FedRAMP-driven security and compliance requirements.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud-native container platform operations.
Experience integrating observability and ITSM platforms to improve incident response and service reliability.
Experience implementing immutable infrastructure and policy-as-code controls in enterprise environments.
Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps practices to optimize spend and performance.