Azure Cloud Engineer – Platform

Edge Byte is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer – Platform to administer, configure, implement, and support Microsoft Azure environments across commercial, regulated, and public-sector customers.

This role serves as a general-purpose Azure engineering position focused on day-to-day cloud platform operations, application and workload onboarding, resource configuration, governance, access, networking, security integration, monitoring, and automation. The engineer will work across Azure infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, ICAM, application, and Dev Ops teams to support new and existing cloud workloads.

The position requires strong Azure administration experience and the ability to take an application or workload from initial requirements through onboarding, configuration, connectivity, access, monitoring, security integration, and operational handoff within established Azure landing zones and enterprise standards.

• Administer and support Microsoft Azure subscriptions, resource groups, virtual machines, storage, networking, identities, and platform services.
• Onboard applications and workloads into existing Azure landing zones and enterprise cloud environments.
• Configure Azure resources including compute, storage, networking, Key Vault, monitoring, backup, and supporting platform services.
• Support application teams with cloud resource requirements, connectivity, identity integration, access, DNS, certificates, and platform dependencies.
• Implement and maintain Azure RBAC, managed identities, service principals, resource permissions, and access-control configurations.
• Configure and support VNets, subnets, NSGs, UDRs, Private Endpoints, Private DNS, load balancing, and hybrid connectivity as required.
• Apply Azure Policy, tagging, naming standards, resource governance, cost controls, and configuration standards.
• Support Microsoft Defender for Cloud, security recommendations, vulnerability remediation, logging, and baseline security controls.
• Assist with Microsoft Entra n, Enterprise Applications, App Registrations, managed identities, and authentication requirements.
• Configure Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerts, diagnostic settings, dashboards, and operational monitoring.
• Support Azure Backup, Recovery Services Vaults, availability, resiliency, and disaster-recovery requirements.
• Troubleshoot application, compute, networking, identity, permissions, DNS, storage, and platform-level Azure issues.
• Develop and maintain Terraform, Bicep, Power Shell, Azure CLI, or other automation used to deploy and manage Azure resources.
• Support cloud migrations, application modernization, infrastructure deployment, and workload transition activities.
• Develop technical documentation, implementation procedures, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and as-built documentation.
• Collaborate with networking, cybersecurity, ICAM, Dev Ops, application, database, and infrastructure engineering teams.
• Apply Zero Trust, least privilege, cloud governance, security, and operational best practices across customer environments.

• CompTIA Security+
• 5+ years of enterprise IT, infrastructure, systems administration, cloud, or engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands‑on Microsoft Azure administration or cloud engineering experience.
• Strong hands‑on experience administering Microsoft Azure subscriptions, resources, virtual machines, storage, networking, and platform services.
• Experience onboarding applications and workloads into Azure environments.
• Experience with Azure Resource Groups, RBAC, managed identities, service principals, Key Vault, Azure Policy, and resource governance.
• Working knowledge of Azure VNets, subnets, NSGs, UDRs, Private Endpoints, Private DNS, VPN, load balancing, and hybrid…