Azure cloud engineer

Azure cloud engineer - Public cloud engineer

Location: 100 percent remote but Jersey city or NYC preferred

Interview process: 2 interviews to hire

Contract: 3 month extendable only on w2

Must have: Cloud, Azure, vulnerability management (they need to do actual remediation and troubleshooting) , terraform, and Virtual Machines

Nice to have: Google Cloud Platform

Project Overview

seeking three senior-level Public Cloud Engineers to support a large-scale Azure infrastructure and vulnerability remediation initiative. These roles are focused on cloud infrastructure engineering, not traditional DevOps engineering. The team is responsible for identifying, investigating, troubleshooting, and remediating cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities across a complex enterprise environment.

Must-Have Skills

Azure Cloud Engineering (Top Priority)

Candidates must demonstrate strong hands-on Azure infrastructure experience, including:

• Azure networking
• Storage Accounts
• Key Vault
• Load Balancers
• Virtual Machines
• Public/private access controls
• Cloud security configurations
• Policy-driven cloud governance

The manager is looking for engineers who understand how Azure services work under the hood and can troubleshoot infrastructure issues rather than simply deploy resources.

Vulnerability Remediation Experience

• Investigating security findings
• Determining root cause
• Identifying false positives vs. legitimate vulnerabilities
• Implementing remediation plans
• Coordinating fixes across engineering and security teams
• Moving changes through release processes
• Verifying successful remediation

The team does not want candidates whose involvement was limited to ticket routing or vulnerability reporting.

Terraform

• Reading existing Terraform code
• Troubleshooting Terraform deployments
• Modifying Terraform configurations
• Writing Terraform code when required
• Implementing infrastructure changes tied to vulnerabilities or new requirements

Virtual Machine (VM) Security & Management

Strong experience with:

• VM lifecycle management
• Golden images
• OS/software patching
• Image distribution
• Version control of VM templates
• VM vulnerability remediation
• Infrastructure hardening

Enterprise Cloud Experience

Nice-to-Have Skills

Multi-Cloud Experience

Additional experience with AWS and other cloud platforms is beneficial but not a requirement.

Software Engineering Background

Candidates with prior software development experience are viewed favorably because they often understand:

• Application architecture
• Product behavior
• Infrastructure-to-application dependencies
• Code deployment processes
• Release management workflows

Azure

• What Azure services do you work with most frequently?
• Can you describe a complex Azure issue you personally troubleshot and resolved?
• What Azure security or compliance issues have you remediated?

Vulnerability Management

• Walk me through a cloud vulnerability you identified and remediated.
• How do you determine whether a vulnerability is a false positive or requires remediation?
• What was your role in the end-to-end remediation process?

Terraform

• How often do you write Terraform versus simply executing existing code?
• Describe a Terraform issue you had to troubleshoot.
• Have you modified infrastructure code to resolve security findings?

Virtual Machines

• Have you been responsible for VM image management and patching?
• What types of VM vulnerabilities have you remediated?
• How have you handled outdated software or OS versions across large VM fleets?

Environment

• How large was the cloud environment you supported?
• Who did you typically partner with during remediation efforts?
• What change management or release processes did you follow?