Senior Azure Cloud Engineer (Temporary Contract)
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6 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About You
This is a highimpact senior Azure Cloud / DevOps role supporting a Private Equity Group (PEG) platform. The team is greenfield the infrastructure is new and the customer is highly selective and securityconscious. You must operate with strong autonomy deep handson Azure expertise and the ability to own cloud architecture endtoend. The expectation is to design build operate and evolve production systems directly.
You will work closely with VPlevel technical stakeholders in an environment where reliability deployment safety and clarity in communication are essential. This position requires someone who can challenge assumptions constructively explain architectural tradeoffs clearly and operate effectively in ambiguous earlystage environments.
- Note: This position is offered under a contractor model for a period of 6 months with the possibility of extension.
You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies
- 5 years of handson Azure architecture experience including subscription and resource group strategies identity and access control (RBAC managed identities) and end-to-end ownership of production Azure environments.
- Strong experience designing and operating Azure networking including VNets subnets NSGs routing private endpoints and firewall concepts.
- Handson production experience with Azure PaaS services including Azure App Services Azure Database for PostgreSQL Azure Front Door and Azure Storage.
- Expert-level Kubernetes and AKS operations including cluster provisioning and upgrades node pools scaling strategies networking integration (CNI ingress) and workload isolation and security best practices.
- Production-grade Terraform expertise including modular design environment separation and state management with Azure backends.
- Strong CI/CD automation experience integrating infrastructure as code and application deployments using Git-based pipelines.
- Solid reliability engineering experience including monitoring and alerting design incident response and recovery post-incident analysis and the ability to reason about availability scalability cost optimization and deployment safety.
- Scripting ability using Bash and Python for automation and operational tooling.
- Active use of AI-assisted engineering tools such as Cursor GitHub Copilot or Cloud Code to accelerate infrastructure development incident response and documentation.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to operate confidently with VP-level stakeholders during architectural reviews and operational incidents.
- Advanced English proficiency as you will work directly with US-based clients.
You Will Be Accountable for the Following Responsibilities
- Design and own Azure cloud architecture for a greenfield PEG platform including subscription structure networking identity and environment separation.
- Build and operate AKS-based workloads and supporting Azure PaaS services ensuring high availability and operational resilience.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments ensuring deployment safety and environment isolation.
- Operate and evolve Terraform-driven infrastructure maintaining modular design clean state management and consistent IaC practices across environments.
- Design and maintain monitoring and alerting strategies across platform services ensuring visibility into availability performance and reliability.
- Lead troubleshooting and resolution of production issues coordinate recovery efforts and execute structured post-incident reviews.
- Improve platform reliability automation and developer experience through proactive runbook creation and operational documentation.
- Partner with security and engineering stakeholders on network policies access controls private connectivity and compliance requirements.
- Use AI tools to accelerate infrastructure automation documentation and deployment safety validation.
- Challenge technical assumptions and advocate for scalable secure and cost-effective Azure architectures.
- Communicate clearly and confidently during incidents and architectural reviews with VP-level technical stakeholders.
Qualifications :
- 5 years in Azure cloud engineering or DevOps roles with end-to-end ownership of production environments.
- Expertise operating Kubernetes/AKS workloads and Azure PaaS services in production contexts.
- IaC background with Terraform including environment separation and state management at scale.
- Use of AI-assisted tools such as Cursor GitHub Copilot or Cloud Code as part of daily engineering workflow.
Additional Information :
About Us
We Are Engineered Different.
At Applaudo talented people design build and scale meaningful AI-powered solutions that create real business impact. As an AI-native organization we collaborate across design development cloud data and artificial intelligence to turn ideas into scalable products that transform how companies operate make decisions and grow.
We are building a high-performance culture grounded in five values: Empowering Excellence Collaborative Teamwork Unsolicited Respect Consistent Transparency and Efficient Communication. These define how we work how we support one another and how we hold ourselves accountable.
Applaudo is a place for people who want to learn fast take ownership and work alongside strong teams they are proud to belong to. Joining us means being part of an organization that is evolving intentionally investing in modern ways of working and leading AI-native transformation at scale.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
