Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ascendo Resources is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate its Microsoft Azure cloud platform. The role owns infrastructure, DevOps practices, cloud operations, security controls, compliance readiness, monitoring, reliability, and cross-functional platform enablement, with a focus on Terraform, CI/CD, and FedRAMP requirements.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Azure infrastructure
- Build and manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Own cloud environment architecture, including networking, segmentation, and access control
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps preferred)
- Improve deployment reliability, speed, and rollback strategies
- Standardize build/release processes across teams
- Partner with the Security team to implement and maintain technical security controls
- Enforce best practices:
- RBAC / least privilege
- Azure Policy & governance
- Logging and monitoring
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis (RCA)
- Improve system reliability, availability, and performance
- Work closely with development teams to enable scalable, reliable deployments
- Partner with product teams to ensure features align with platform capabilities and compliance requirements
- Partner with the ISSE to translate security control requirements into platform-level technical implementations
- Define and enforce cloud best practices and standards
- Guide architectural decisions
- Mentor engineers when needed
Skills
- Strong current hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
- Deep experience with (MUST): Terraform (IaC), CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or similar)
- Solid understanding of: Azure networking (VNet, private endpoints, NSGs), Identity & access (Entra ID, RBAC)
- Experience working with cloud security and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP)
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and operate production systems
Benefits
- 100% remote work
- Benefits
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