Sr. Azure Cloud Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer with strong expertise in cloud infrastructure automation, Kubernetes, and Azure services. The ideal candidate will design, implement, and operate scalable, secure, and resilient systems, with a primary focus on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and supporting infrastructure.

You will play a key role in modernizing our platform practices, enabling developer productivity, and ensuring operational excellence across our cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

Design, automate, and manage cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code.

Operate and optimize container orchestration platforms, including lifecycle management, scaling, security, and workload operations.

Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for applications and infrastructure.

Manage networking, storage, DNS, and databases in a cloud environment.

Establish and enforce identity and access management (IAM) practices, ensuring least privilege access.

Automate routine operations with scripting and tooling.

Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure platform performance and reliability.

Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and security teams to build secure, scalable systems.

8+ years in Cloud Engineering with a focus on Microsoft Azure.

Primary expertise in Kubernetes (AKS):

o Deployments, upgrades, scaling, and networking.

o Ingress, service mesh, and workload orchestration.

o Security hardening, RBAC, and troubleshooting.

Strong hands-on experience with Terraform Cloud and infrastructure-as-code best practices.

Proficiency with core Azure infrastructure services, including:

o Networking: VNets, subnets, load balancers, private endpoints, routing, firewalls.

o Identity & Access Management: Entra ID (Azure AD), RBAC, managed identities, service principals.

o Compute: Virtual Machines, Scale Sets, App Services, Container Instances.

o Storage: Blob, Files, Queues, lifecycle policies.

o Databases: Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, MySQL.

o DNS & Traffic Management: Azure DNS, Private DNS Zones, Traffic Manager, Front Door.

o Security & Governance: Key Vault, Azure Policies, Defender for Cloud.

o Monitoring & Observability: Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics.

Scripting and automation expertise (Azure CLI, Bash, PowerShell, Python).

Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, etc.).

Strong containerization experience (Docker, cloud-native design patterns).

Excellent troubleshooting skills in distributed, multi-tiered cloud environments.

Strong communication and collaboration skills. Experience with Cloudflare (WAF, CDN, DNS, Zero Trust).

Experience with F5 (LTM, GTM, load balancing, traffic management).

Experience with Palo Alto firewalls (network segmentation, security policies, Azure integration).

Service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) and Kubernetes security frameworks (OPA, Kyverno, Aqua, Falco).

Multi-cloud or hybrid networking experience.

Relevant Certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate, Microsoft Certified: Entra ID Administrator Associate, HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate, Kubernetes CKA/CKAD.