Azure Engineer

Job Title: Azure Engineer Location: Omaha or Remote Duration: 8 month Contract/Contract to hire: contract to hire Job Description Our client is seeking an Azure Engineer with ITOps expertise to work on a team focused on keeping the systems secure, stable, and available. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in production support, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and a genuine passion for ensuring critical systems operate smoothly and efficiently. You’ll collaborate closely with product, security, and operations teams to automate everything—provisioning, deployments, observability, incident response, and compliance—while supporting a rotational shift model to ensure 24x7 coverage. Role Description Design, build, and maintain Azure landing zones and platform services (e.g., VNet, Private Endpoints, Key Vault, Azure Firewall/NSGs, Application Gateway/WAF)Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and/or Bicep; enforce GitOps workflows (branching, PRs, policy checks)Create reusable modules, pipelines, and golden patterns for app teams; champion automation-first approachesDefine and measure SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability roadmaps for critical servicesImplement and tune observability (logs, metrics, traces) using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Prometheus/Grafana where applicableConduct capacity planning, resiliency testing (chaos, failover, DR), and performance tuning across servicesBuild secure, robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Pipelines) with automated testing, scans, and approvalsStandardize deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) for containerized and PaaS workloadsImplement guardrails using Azure Policy, RBAC, PIM, and Blueprints (or equivalent) to enforce least privilege and compliance (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA as relevant)Manage secrets and certificates (Key Vault) and integrate security testing (SAST/DAST/Container scanning) into pipelinesSupport vulnerability remediation and patching SLAsOwn incident response, including rotational shifts and on-call; lead triage, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviewsOptimize cost (FinOps), tagging standards, budgets, and proactive spending alertsMaintain runbooks, knowledge base articles, and automation for routine operationsAct as a technical mentor; review designs/PRs; contribute to architecture decisionsPartner with app teams to onboard workloads, define nonfunctional requirements, and drive platform adoption Your Skills And Experience 5 to 7 years of hands-on experience supporting Azure-based infrastructure and services in productionExpertise in several of: AKS, App Services, Functions, APIM, Azure SQL/MI, Cosmos DB, Storage, Event Hub/Service Bus, Redis, VNet/Peering, Private Link, Application Gateway/WAF, Front DoorStrong IaC with Terraform (preferred) and/or Bicep; Git-based workflows; GitHub or Azure DevOpsProven SRE background: SLI/SLO design, error budgets, incident management, RCA, capacity and performance engineeringCI/CD design and operations (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Pipelines); artifact/versioning strategies; release governanceObservability with Azure: Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and alerting/automations (Action Groups, Logic Apps, Functions)Solid networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, routing, firewalls, load balancing), identity (AAD/Entra ID), and secrets management (Key Vault)Scripting proficiency in PowerShell and/or Python; Linux fundamentalsStrong understanding of Azure security best practices, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Azure Policy, and Managed Identities for secure access management and governance #INDPRO