Job Title: Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 6 + Months contract to fulltime hire
(s with Active Public Trust clearance are encouraged to apply for this position)
Experience:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure roles, including 5+ years focused on Azure cloud engineering.
- Demonstrated experience designing and managing secure, highly available cloud environments for enterprise services.
- Proven experience leading Azure cloud migration and modernization efforts in regulated environments.
- Experience designing, configuring, and administering Azure cloud enterprise implementations using compute cloud resources such as Virtual Machines, Scale sets, Azure containers or Kubernetes, and Cloud Services.
- Strong experience with Azure tools such as Azure DevOps, Repos, Pipelines, and Boards.
- Experienced in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as a service (SaaS) Cloud Hosting Architecture/Design patterns to meet scalability, capacity, availability, performance, storage, cost, and application/platform requirements
Technical Skills:
- Cloud networking, storage, app services, virtualization, and containerization
- DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation practices
- Infrastructure-as-Code at production scale: PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform, with reusable modules, automated validation, and drift detection.
- Cloud governance, policy enforcement, operational compliance and security in Azure: Azure Policy, RBAC, conditional access, managed identities
- Zero-trust security principles, networking design patterns, and secure cloud configuration practices
- Microsoft Entra Identity services
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Experience supporting federal agency IT environments with FISMA/FedRAMP-driven security and compliance requirements.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and cloud-native container platform operations.
- Experience integrating observability and ITSM platforms to improve incident response and service reliability.
- Experience implementing immutable infrastructure and policy-as-code controls in enterprise environments.
- Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps practices to optimize spend and performance.
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate