Role: Azure Cloud Engineer
Location: Raleigh NC (Onsite)
Duration: 12 Months possible to extend
Interview: Face-to-face round.
Only local to NC
- REQUIRED/MUST HAVE SKILLS:
- 3 years minimum (and must be recent; not dated) hands-on experience managing and deploying Azure landing zone architecture in enterprise environments
- 3 years Azure networking skills (VWAN Express Route VPN Firewall VNET etc) including hybrid networking with on-premises.
- 3 years experience designing Azure environments with a private-by-default approach which includes use of Private Endpoints disabling public IPs restricting access via NSGs and Azure Firewall and enforcing policies to prevent public exposure.
- Familiarity with implementing and managing Azure Policies RBAC and resource tagging strategies
- Must have very strong problem-solving skills and excellent communication (must be able to understand individuals and be understood!)
- Job Responsibilities
- They are seeking a Cloud Engineer with solid Azure experience to help implement and manage cloud infrastructure in a secure and scalable manner.
- The contractor will work closely with senior architects and application teams to support the deployment configuration documentation and optimization of Azure services networking components and infrastructure.
- This role requires a proactive engineer who can contribute to documentation knowledge sharing and enforcement of cloud governance policies in a large public-sector environment.
- The engineer will support a maturing Azure environment assisting in both new deployments and the modernization of existing applications.
- 20% of their role (give or take) will be cognitive services meaning theyll be working with other departments and educating them on the use of Azure Cloud.
- The remaining 80% is hands-on.
- KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist in the setup and configuration of Core Azure subscriptions resource groups and environments.
- Implement Azure Policies RBAC permissions and tagging standards based on team guidance.
- Deploy and support core Azure networking (VWANAzure Firewall VNets NSGs Private Endpoints VPN/ExpressRoute).
- Help configure and manage Azure Application Gateways and related components.
- Contribute to infrastructure automation using Bicep ARM or PowerShell scripts.
- Troubleshoot connectivity and application including issues between Azure and on-prem networks
- Support incident resolution and assist with root cause analysis.
- Monitor Azure environments and assist in alerting logging and diagnostics configuration.
- Collaborate with development architecture and security teams on deployments and infrastructure changes.
- Follow and reinforce cloud governance security and compliance policies.