Azure Cloud Engineer

Pay Range: $55.00hr - $60.00hr

Job Overview:

Our client is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to join the Engineering and Operations team. This role provides Azure Cloud engineering, application support, and rotational help-desk support. The selected candidate will implement, maintain, and support resources within the Azure environment, collaborating with management, architects, developers, DBAs, and engineers to ensure secure, efficient, and optimized use of Azure services such as App Services, API Gateways, Function Apps, Azure Virtual Desktops, and Azure Kubernetes Service.

Cloud Operations and Engineering:

• Maintain and implement cloud resources in the cloud environment.
• Ensure compliance with government policies regarding security, IAM, network controls, and cost governance.
• Maintain and improve infrastructure documentation, naming conventions, tagging standards, and cloud governance artifacts.
• Assist with access reviews, role assignments, and least-privilege IAM evaluations.
• Manage vendor-required updates and ensure compatibility.
• Implement fault-tolerant and highly available Azure solutions.

Monitoring, Troubleshooting, and Diagnostics:

• Monitor Azure services and application workloads to ensure uptime and availability.
• Troubleshoot issues related to connectivity, access, security, application performance, and service degradation.
• Perform diagnostic deep-dives using logs, metrics, traces, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics.
• Analyze and tune system and application performance.

Operational Support:

• Participate in daily and weekly operational cycles including pattern monitoring, incident reviews, and maintenance readiness checks.
• Triage production issues, ensure timely resolution, and document root-cause findings.
• Execute and support off-hours work as needed.
• Define change requests, detailed implementation plans, and roll-back procedures.

Technical Development and Compliance:

• Understand end-to-end data flows across systems, roadways data, financial transactions, and reporting tools.
• Support optimization of integrations and data movement.
• Apply PCI or other regulatory compliance requirements when evaluating system behavior and logging patterns.
• Manage key vaults, passwords, certificates, and secure credential storage.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work directly with architects, engineers, managers, and cross-functional teams to use Azure services effectively.
• Provide best-practice guidance related to SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders in written and verbal form.
• Support multiple concurrent projects of complex technical scope.

Qualifications:

• Minimum 3 years of experience with Microsoft Azure services.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate requirements and design concepts clearly.
• Experience working in Microsoft Windows environments (2019+).
• Experience with Office 365 services and administering Single Sign-On (SSO) including Entra ID.
• Solid scripting experience with PowerShell or Python.
• Ability to create network and system topology documentation.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Desktops.
• Experience with Office 365 services and Power Apps platforms.
• Azure certification (AZ-104, AZ-305, or similar) is preferred.
• Experience with server infrastructure, protocols, firewalls, certificates, and load balancers.
• Experience with networking, server administration (Windows/Linux), databases, and cloud environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent).
• Experience with PCI or similar compliance frameworks.

Special Instructions:

• Position requires a fingerprint-based background check.
• Continued education is expected at the contractor’s own expense to stay current with organization technologies.