Azure Cloud Engineer

Job#: 3058623
Job Description:
Azure Cloud Engineer
Location: Miramar, FL (Hybrid)
Role Overview
An established organization is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to join the Cloud Operations team. The successful candidate will build, operate, and improve the Azure cloud platform, contributing to Infrastructure as Code, continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, basic networking, security guardrails, and day-to-day platform operations. This opportunity allows the professional to own well-defined tasks that keep the cloud environment reliable, secure, and cost-efficient while collaborating with senior engineering talent.
Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Azure resources, including Resource Groups, VNets, subnets, Network Security Groups, Storage, AKS, and App Services, using Terraform and ARM templates.
• Create reusable infrastructure modules and follow Git-based workflows, including branches and pull requests.
• Contribute to GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps pipelines, managing release gates, environment promotion, and configuration-as-code with Helm and Kustomize.
• Implement least-privilege Azure RBAC, manage secrets and keys within Key Vault, and apply Azure Policy, blueprints, and tagging standards.
• Instrument and monitor services using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics, managing alerts, dashboards, and basic SLO metrics.
• Support Azure networking configurations, including VNet peering, Private Endpoints, DNS, and load balancers, while troubleshooting common connectivity issues.
• Tag cloud resources accurately, review cost reports, and assist with right-sizing and reservations under technical guidance.
• Keep technical diagrams, standards, and runbooks current while collaborating closely with Security, Networking, and Application teams.

Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience: Minimum of two years of production experience working with the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, cloud networking, and infrastructure security.
Technical Skills: Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or ARM templates, experience with Git-based workflows, and familiarity with container technologies such as Docker and basic Kubernetes concepts.
Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to Azure Kubernetes Service administration, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, and Private Endpoints.
• Experience with Helm, Kustomize, or Argo CD/Flux for GitOps workflows.
• Basic understanding of Site Reliability Engineering concepts, including SLIs, SLOs, and incident postmortems.
• Familiarity with cloud cost optimization, tagging, budgets, and cost alerts.
• Relevant Azure certifications, such as AZ-104, AZ-900, AZ-204, or AZ-305.
• Knowledge of data lakes, data structures, and transit communication between AWS and Azure environments.

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