Senior Cloud Engineer - Azure

Key Responsibilities

• Cloud Infrastructure Engineering
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise applications and customer-facing platforms.
• Build and manage Azure services including Virtual Networks, AKS, Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Storage, Key Vault, SQL Database, Cosmos DB, and other core platform services.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or similar technologies.
• Drive cloud architecture improvements focused on scalability, resiliency, performance, and cost optimization.
• Automation & Platform Engineering
• Develop automated provisioning, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
• Improve developer productivity through self-service infrastructure and platform capabilities.
• Establish infrastructure standards, reusable modules, and engineering best practices.
• Reliability, Security & Operations
• Design and implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.
• Partner with Security Engineering to implement cloud security controls, compliance requirements, and governance standards.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, problem management, and service restoration activities.
• Drive proactive reliability improvements and continuous operational excellence.
• Technical Leadership
• Lead complex cloud infrastructure initiatives with minimal supervision.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to platform architecture.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance across teams.
• Participate in architecture reviews and influence cloud engineering standards and technical direction.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, Security, and Operations teams to deliver business outcomes.
• Translate business and technical requirements into scalable cloud solutions.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 5+ years of cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering, or related experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services.
• Experience designing and supporting highly available, distributed cloud environments.
• Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes (AKS preferred).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong knowledge of networking, identity, security, monitoring, and cloud governance principles.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving production issues in cloud environments.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.