Cloud Engineer, Remote Contract

We are looking for a Cloud Engineer for a remote, contractual position.

Summary:

The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for the design and implementation of Azure architecture, components and environments, and will be expected to have experience with managing a cloud environment via scripting/coding when appropriate and as a preference. The Cloud Engineer will demonstrate knowledge of Cloud Architecture best practices, Cloud Security, Cloud Infrastructure monitoring & tuning.

Experience:

1. Experience designing Azure environments and resources.
2. Experience creating templates to deploy Azure resources.
3. Experience with Azure private endpoints.
4. Experience with Azure DevOps
5. Experience with YAML
6. Experience with Bicep, Terraform or ARM templates.
7. Experience documenting systems and configuration.
8. Experience creating and maintaining PowerShell (or other language) scripts for environment management.

Detailed Experience: The ideal candidates should have most of the following experience:

a) SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) / DevOps mindset & experience
b) Infrastructure as Code / Scripting / Coding (Required)
c) State Configuration Management (Windows primarily and Linux a plus)
d) Azure Compliance / Policy Management using one of the following approaches:
• Pipelines (YAML/AZ-CLI)
• IaC (BICEP/Terraform/etc)
• ARM Templates
e) Azure Monitoring/Logging
f) Azure Networking
g) Azure Storage Solutions – Management and security
h) Azure AD and Identity Management
i) Azure App Services – Management and security
j) Azure Backup (plus for Azure Site Recovery)