Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)

We are looking for a full-time, remote Senior Cloud Engineer with strong hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure and automation using Microsoft Azure to join our U.S. client. In this role, you will work with development teams to improve cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, and self-service engineering capabilities.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical generalist with a software engineering mindset who can take a desired outcome, understand an existing environment, research unfamiliar areas when necessary, evaluate options, and independently drive work from an incomplete starting point through completion.

You should be comfortable moving between Azure infrastructure, networking, identity, deployment tooling, GitHub Actions, infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and application teams depending on the problem being solved. Development teams will remain responsible for their applications and production environments, while this role focuses on making those teams more capable and self-sufficient through better infrastructure, automation, tooling, and technical guidance.

Founded in 2003, our client transforms the traditional restaurant point-of-sale (POS) terminal into an integrated 360-degree operational management system. Their solution increases brand loyalty through improved customer experiences, optimizes operations resulting in lower costs, and increases sales volumes through comprehensive analytics and employee performance insights. Over 7,000 locations use their technology today processing $5 Billion in daily sales.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and improve Azure infrastructure and supporting automation
• Build reusable GitHub Actions, deployment workflows, and self-service engineering tools
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Bicep and Terraform
• Automate infrastructure and operational workflows using PowerShell, Azure CLI, APIs, and application code where appropriate
• Improve existing infrastructure and automation that may already be partially implemented, taking solutions from proof-of-concept or incomplete states through production-ready completion
• Work with development teams to understand their applications, infrastructure requirements, and deployment models
• Help teams solve difficult cloud, networking, identity, and deployment issues without taking operational ownership away from the teams themselves
• Support Azure tenant, subscription, and workload migrations in partnership with application teams
• Help establish repeatable patterns for provisioning databases, application infrastructure, networking, DNS, identity, configuration, and related cloud resources
• Improve infrastructure deployment through Octopus Deploy, including increased use of infrastructure-as-code and repeatable deployment processes
• Work with Cloudflare, Terraform, and related tooling to improve DNS, routing, TLS, load balancing, and application connectivity patterns.
• Assist with the gradual simplification and cleanup of a smaller AWS footprint
• Evaluate technical approaches, identify tradeoffs and limitations, and make pragmatic recommendations before implementation

Required Experience

• Excellent english communication skills
• 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure
• Strong understanding of Azure architecture and common Azure services
• Experience with Azure subscriptions, resource groups, RBAC, Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, service principals, and Key Vault
• Practical Azure networking experience, including VNETs, subnets, NSGs, DNS, VPNs, private endpoints, public/private connectivity, and firewall concepts
• Experience with Azure SQL and related Azure database infrastructure.
• Experience with Azure PaaS and container-based application hosting
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code using Bicep, Terraform, ARM templates, or similar technologies.
• Strong experience with GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD automation.
• Experience writing automation or software using at least one general-purpose language or scripting environment such as PowerShell, C#, or Python
• Ability to understand existing infrastructure and deployment environments rather than working only with greenfield systems
• Ability to independently research unfamiliar technologies, validate proposed approaches, and clearly communicate findings and recommendations
• Ability to work from goals and technical direction without requiring detailed step-by-step implementation instructions
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, and deployment systems
• Strong communication skills when working directly with software engineers and senior technical staff.

Desired Experience

• Hands-on Octopus Deploy experience
• Bicep experience
• PowerShell experience
• C#/.NET familiarity
• Experience with Azure Container Apps
• Experience building reusable or self-service infrastructure capabilities for development teams
• Experience supporting migrations between Azure tenants or subscriptions
• Experience with Cloudflare, including DNS, proxying, load balancing, or related services
• Experience with Terraform-based Cloudflare management
• Experience with Windows Server and Linux environments
• Experience with Datadog or similar observability platforms
• AWS experience
• Experience simplifying or migrating mixed-cloud environments
• Experience with GitHub APIs or building automation around GitHub repositories and workflows
• Experience designing developer-facing infrastructure tooling or internal engineering platforms

Additional Information

• Knowing your ideas are heard and matter think big!
• You get to own your job and be recognized for your contributions
• Work with smart and creative people
• Making mistakes is human. Let's learn from them. Be transparent!
• We recognize you as an individual no presumptions or judgment. Be the extraordinary you!
• 15 days Paid Time Off (PTO), 1 floating day, 3 sick days, and designated national holidays
• Start: ASAP

About Velozient

We are a privately held, nearshore software development company providing outsourced development resources to North American companies. Our mission is to offer development talent that enjoys taking on challenging work, wants to grow their skills and experiences building software, and excel in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment. We are focused on providing world-class remote resources to work as valued client team members. If this type of opportunity excites you, then consider joining our team!

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