Senior Cloud Engineer W2 Hiring

Role: Senior Cloud Engineer
Location: Phoenix AZ; Columbus OH; Dallas TX
Job Type: Contract 
Interview: Phone/Skype
Pay Rate: $66/hr C2C

Job Description:
We are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer with 10 years of experience to design build and operate enterprisegrade cloud platforms. The role is handson with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure and working knowledge of AWS supporting scalable secure and highly available cloud solutions.

Required Skills & Experience
10 years of IT experience with 7 years in cloud engineering roles 
Proven experience supporting enterprise and production environments

Technical Skills
Strong handson experience with Microsoft Azure (primary)
Working knowledge of AWS (EC2 S3 IAM RDS VPC)
Azure services: Virtual Machines App Services AKS Networking Storage Identity (Entra ID)
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform Bicep or ARM templates
CI/CD: Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Git workflows
Containers & orchestration: Docker Kubernetes (AKS preferred)
Scripting: PowerShell Bash or Python
Monitoring & operations: Azure Monitor Log Analytics (or equivalent)

Nice to Have
Azure or AWS certifications
Experience in regulated or large enterprise environments

Key Responsibilities:
Design implement and support cloud infrastructure primarily on Azure with some workloads on AWS.
Build and manage cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Bicep / ARM).
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
Deploy and operate Azure services across compute networking storage identity and platform layers.
Ensure cloud solutions meet security compliance availability and performance standards.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud and infrastructure issues; perform rootcause analysis.
Optimize environments for cost performance and reliability using cloudnative tools.
Contribute to technical documentation standards and best practices.
Provide technical guidance and mentoring to other engineers as a senior IC.

What are the Mandatory skills and skill proficiencies required for this position
Microsoft Azure
Azure services: Virtual Machines App Services AKS Networking Storage Identity (Entra ID)
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform Bicep or ARM templates
 

Additional Information :

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract