Sr Cloud Engineer - ITOps

About the role

Prominent has a contract‑to‑hire need for a Senior Azure Engineer with strong SRE and IT Ops experience. The role involves building, operating, and optimizing cloud‑native platforms at scale, owning reliability, performance, security, cost, and developer productivity for critical workloads. Preference is given to candidates within a commutable distance of the client offices in Omaha, NE; Greenwood Village, CO; or Berkeley Heights, NJ, though remote work is possible for an outstanding candidate. Candidates must be able to work as a W2 employee on Prominent’s payroll; C2C or 1099 arrangements are not available, and candidates requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future are not eligible.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Azure landing zones and platform services (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 approaches.
• Define and measure SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability roadmaps for critical services.
• Implement and tune observability (logs, metrics, traces) using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Prometheus/Grafana where applicable.
• Conduct capacity planning, resiliency testing (cha