Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Job Title: Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: 6 + Months contract to fulltime hire

(s with Active Public Trust clearance are encouraged to apply for this position)

Experience:

- 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.

- HashiCorp Terraform Associate