Azure Cloud Engineer (Washington DC Metro Area)
We are looking for an Azure Cloud Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and operational health of federal Azure cloud environments. Terraform is central to this position: the engineer will independently design, build, review, and troubleshoot Infrastructure-as-Code for mission-critical environments. The role involves close collaboration with platform engineers, developers, security teams, and product stakeholders to automate cloud infrastructure, improve Kubernetes operations, and resolve issues impacting the availability of federal data and analytics services.
Federal Compliance: Identity verification will happen at multiple stages of the interview process to adhere to federal compliance. This role is based in the US for a US work-authorized person.
Required
- Must be a U.S. citizen or green card holder
- Must be based in Atlanta, Georgia
- 4+ years in cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, DevOps, SRE, or similar roles
- 2+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience
- 2+ years of hands-on Terraform expertise to design reusable modules, manage state, troubleshoot failures, and maintain production infrastructure
- Ability to pass a background check and obtain a public trust security clearance
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot production Azure infrastructure using Terraform.
- Support reliability, performance, and availability of workloads in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, and application reliability issues.
- Automate cloud operations to reduce manual work and improve consistency.
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to enhance deployment and incident-response practices.
- Implement and refine monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational reporting.
- Identify reliability risks and recommend improvements to cloud architecture and processes.
- Document infrastructure, procedures, troubleshooting guidance, and operational runbooks.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with certificate lifecycle management (maintaining, renewing, rotating certs)
- Experience creating operational dashboards or reports (Power BI preferred)
- Experience with observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic, Splunk)
- Experience integrating Azure resources with Active Directory
- Experience using agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot) for applications or infrastructure automation
- Azure, Kubernetes, or Terraform certifications