Cloud Engineer

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6 Month Contract

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We are seeking an experienced Cloud Systems Azure Engineer to join a specialized infrastructure team supporting a mission-critical, high-throughput digital commerce and underwriting transaction platform for a global insurance services leader.

Reporting directly to the Cloud Infrastructure Manager, you will serve as a key custodian of a large-scale, highly resilient enterprise cloud environment. This is a high-visibility, hands-on role where you will operate across the entire cloud footprint—ensuring maximum uptime, bulletproof security posture, end-to-end automation, and performance optimization for customer-facing applications processing millions of high-value transactions.

• Maintain, monitor, and optimize multi-region, production-grade Azure cloud environments to sustain 99.99%+ availability for mission-critical e-commerce and transaction engines.
• Partner with engineering leadership to execute proactive capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource scaling aligned with traffic spikes and market demand.
• Implement, test, and document comprehensive backup strategies, failover workflows, and disaster recovery (DR) plans to guarantee minimal RTO and RPO.

• Build and maintain reproducible cloud resources using modern Infrastructure as Code frameworks (Terraform, Cloud Formation, or Ansible).
• Collaborate with application teams to streamline deployment pipelines (CI/CD), automating deployment gates, configuration drift detection, and rollout verification.

• Enforce enterprise-grade security baselines in coordination with Information Security teams, implementing least-privilege access management (IAM), secret rotation, and role-based access control (RBAC).
• Maintain compliance readiness across industry standards (SOC 2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001) by conducting automated vulnerability assessments, configuration hardening, and remediation.
• Apply network segmentation, zero-trust network configurations, firewall rules, and API gateway routing.

• Build out actionable monitoring, distributed tracing, and centralized alerting systems (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, Cloud Watch, Dynatrace) to pinpoint bottlenecks before they impact users.
• Participate in scheduled on-call rotation and root-cause analysis (RCA) for operational disruptions, ensuring comprehensive post-mortem documentation and remediation.

• Serve as the infrastructure bridge between Software Engineering, IT Operations, Enterprise Architecture, and Info Sec.
• Monitor cloud spend, identify unused or over-provisioned infrastructure, and implement tagging structures and cost-saving policies (Fin Ops best practices).

• Experience: 4+ years of dedicated hands-on experience designing, operating, and automating production infrastructure on Azure cloud, Azure Administrator
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• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proven proficiency using Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar tools to manage modular, immutable infrastructure.
• Networking & Security: Deep practical understanding of cloud networking fundamentals (VPCs, Subnets, Transit Gateways, Direct Connect/VPN, NAT, WAF, DNS/Route 53) and zero-trust IAM implementations.
• Scripting & Automation: Strong scripting capability in at least one language (Python, Bash, or Power Shell) for operational automation and task orchestration.
• CI/CD & Containers: Experience supporting containerized workloads (Docker, ECS, or…