Cloud Engineer

This is a 6-month contract to start, with strong potential for extension as additional projects come online. This is a chance to build a brand new Azure environment from the ground up and put your stamp on the architecture from day one.

Responsibilities

• Design and stand up new Azure IaaS/PaaS infrastructure, including compute, networking, and storage
• Build the subscription/landing-zone structure and core platform services for a new environment
• Configure and validate new workloads and services in Azure, coordinating with application owners and business stakeholders
• Build Terraform modules to provision and manage the environment as code from the initial build
• Partner with the development team to establish Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Write PowerShell and Linux shell scripts to automate deployment, configuration, and validation
• Support a large-scale on-premise server environment (approximately 1,500 servers) alongside the Azure build-out
• Define and apply cloud security controls and baseline configurations
• Document architecture, configurations, and operational runbooks to support a clean handoff to the steady-state operations team

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and implementing new Microsoft Azure environments (IaaS/PaaS) from the ground up
• Experience supporting on-premise servers at scale
• Infrastructure as code experience using Terraform
• PowerShell and Linux shell scripting experience
• Azure networking, identity, and security fundamentals
• Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipeline experience
• 5+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering experience, including at least one prior brownfield Azure implementation project
• Able to work independently against a defined scope and timeline with minimal ramp-up time
• Strong documentation skills to support a clean operational handoff
• Comfortable operating under a fixed-term, deliverable-driven engagement

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Azure certification (AZ-104 or AZ-305)
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent technical experience

Schedule

Onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday with the infrastructure team

Pay

Starting at $60/hour