About the Role
We are seeking a skilled Azure Cloud Engineer to join our consulting team. This role is ideal for a proactive professional who thrives in dynamic environments and is passionate about designing, implementing, and maintaining robust cloud solutions. You will play a key role in ensuring operational excellence, scalability, and security across our Azure-based infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and maintain the health, standards, and stability of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.
- Manage incident response and escalations, ensuring timely resolution.
- Implement changes following established change management and vulnerability remediation processes.
- Participate in disaster recovery planning and testing.
- Research and recommend new cloud technologies to address technical challenges.
- Build foundational cloud components including networking, security, identity, operations, and governance.
- Transition solutions from proof-of-concept to production using automation for repeatability and compliance.
- Design cloud architectures that meet scalability, reliability, and performance requirements.
- Conduct capacity planning, profiling, load testing, and monitoring of cloud applications with security best practices.
- Oversee day-to-day cloud resource management, including allocation, optimization, and configuration.
- Collaborate effectively within a team to achieve project goals.
Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field.4+ years of relevant experience in cloud engineering.Microsoft Azure certifications (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-500, AZ-305, AZ-700).Strong knowledge of Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services and foundational components (compute, storage, networking, identity, security).Experience with Azure App Services architecture and deployment.Hands-on experience with Azure services such as API Management, Database Management, Security, Front Door, Application Gateway, and WAF.Proficiency with Azure DevOps for CI / CD and SDLC processes.Familiarity with containerization technologies and configurations.Expertise in high-availability, geo-distributed architectures, and disaster recovery strategies.Ability to automate deployments using Terraform, PowerShell, CLI, or Bicep, and manage multiple environments via IaC.Strong communication skills for technical and business discussions.Experience with other cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) is a plus.