Azure Cloud Engineer

Location:

Charlotte, NC;
Chandler, AZ; or Dallas, TX

Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

Duration: 12-month contract with strong potential for extension

Our client, a leading U.S.

-based financial services institution, is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Platform Engineer to support, maintain, and enhance large-scale Azure platform and application hosting environments. This role will focus on cloud operations, platform stability, application hosting, observability, automation, and continuous improvement across cloud and on-premises environments.

The ideal candidate brings strong hands-on experience with Azure, Kubernetes, Linux, infrastructure automation, monitoring and observability, and production platform support. This individual will also help drive automation, self-service capabilities, toil reduction, and operational efficiency while partnering with engineering teams, technical stakeholders, vendors, and senior leadership.

• Support and maintain large-scale Azure platform and application hosting environments, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and Azure App Service Environment (ASE).
• Lead or participate in complex, broad-impact initiatives involving cloud infrastructure, platform services, systems operations, and application hosting.
• Provide L2/L3 operational support for production Azure environments and troubleshoot complex platform and infrastructure issues.
• Lead initiatives to improve observability, monitoring, alerting, platform stability, automation, and operational efficiency.
• Identify operational gaps, inefficiencies, and sources of manual effort and drive continuous improvement and toil-reduction initiatives.
• Perform incident management, root cause analysis, change management, capacity planning, platform maintenance, and day-to-day operational oversight.
• Support and troubleshoot Azure networking, identity, security, compute, and platform services.
• Work with engineering teams on technical changes, platform enhancements, and solution design while ensuring adherence to technical controls, governance standards, and enterprise architecture guidelines.
• Develop and maintain automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to streamline provisioning, configuration, operational support, and self-service capabilities.
• Support containerized workloads and Kubernetes platform operations.
• Review and analyze technical and operational challenges, evaluate alternatives, and implement platform improvements and corrective actions.
• Collaborate with technical peers, cross-functional teams, vendors, and mid-to-senior level stakeholders to resolve issues and maintain high levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Participate in Change and Release Management processes to minimize service disruption and maintain platform stability.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and platform support standards.
• Provide clear communication and status updates regarding incidents, platform health, operational risks, and technical initiatives.
• Help mentor and provide technical guidance to other engineers as needed.

• 7+ years of experience supporting public cloud and on-premises technologies.
• 4+ years of experience supporting Linux environments.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure App Service Environment (ASE), and Azure Landing Zones.
• 3+ years of experience with Terraform and Git Hub.
• 3+ years of experience with Python or comparable scripting/automation experience.
• 2+ years of experience with Grafana, KQL, and JQL.
• Experience supporting production-scale cloud and application hosting environments.
• Strong experience with incident management, change management, platform troubleshooting, and operational support.
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, platform stability, observability, monitoring, and automation.
• Experience reducing manual operational effort through automation and self-service capabilities.
• 1+ year of experience with LLMs, prompting, conversational AI, agentic AI, and/or MCP.
• Strong verbal, written, analytical, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across engineering, operations, and business teams.

• 3+ years of experience supporting shared hosting environments.
• 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Experience supporting Open Shift platforms.
• Strong experience with Service Now for incident and change management.
• 1+ year of experience with Jira and Service Now.
• Experience with Azure Monitor, Prometheus, or other monitoring and observability platforms.
• Experience with Docker, Helm, or other containerization and orchestration technologies.
• Experience with Azure networking, identity, security, and enterprise cloud governance.
• Experience with Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Networks, NSGs, Private Endpoints, and Entra .
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation tools such as Terraform, ARM, Bicep, or Ansible.
• Familiarity…