Lead Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Title: Lead Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Location: 100% remote

Direct Hire

Competitive Salary + benefits

MUST HAVE: Current Azure, FedRamp and Terraform experience.

Overview

We are seeking a highly hands-on Lead Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate our Azure cloud platform. This role is focused on execution - you will lead by doing, owning infrastructure, DevOps practices, and cloud operations end-to-end.

You will play a critical role in shaping a secure, scalable, and reliable Azure environment, while partnering closely with development, product, and security teams to implement security controls and deliver a platform that is reliable, scalable, and FedRAMP-ready.

Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture

• Design and implement Azure infrastructure
• Build and manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Own cloud environment architecture, including networking, segmentation, and access control

CI/CD & DevOps

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps preferred)
• Improve deployment reliability, speed, and rollback strategies
• Standardize build/release processes across teams

Security & Compliance

• Partner with the Security team to implement and maintain technical security controls
• Enforce best practices:
• RBAC / least privilege
• Azure Policy & governance
• Logging and monitoring

Monitoring, Reliability & Operations

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis (RCA)
• Improve system reliability, availability, and performance

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Work closely with development teams to enable scalable, reliable deployments
• Partner with product teams to ensure features align with platform capabilities and compliance requirements
• Partner with the ISSE to translate security control requirements into platform-level technical implementations

Technical Leadership

• Define and enforce cloud best practices and standards
• Guide architectural decisions
• Mentor engineers when needed

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
• Deep experience with (MUST):
• Terraform (IaC)
• CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or similar)
• Solid understanding of:
• Azure networking (VNet, private endpoints, NSGs)
• Identity & access (Entra ID, RBAC)
• Experience working with cloud security and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP)
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and operate production systems

What are we looking for in the candidate?

• Reliable, repeatable infrastructure deployments via Terraform
• Stable CI/CD pipelines with minimal manual intervention

• Platform infrastructure that meets ISSE-defined security control requirements with no open blockers
• Clear collaboration between development, product, and security teams

Ascendo is a certified minority owned staffing firm, and we welcome and celebrate diversity. Ascendo is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, parental status, military service or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Contact information

Ruben Rabines