Azure Cloud Systems Engineer

SOLV Energy is a leading provider of infrastructure services to the power industry, designing, building and maintaining utility scale solar, battery storage and high voltage substation projects nationwide.

Job Description

Summary:

The Azure Cloud Systems Engineer will will manage, maintain, and support SOLV Energy’s Azure and AWS cloud-based infrastructure to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure operations, while maximizing the value of subscribed systems and services. This is a hands‑on technologist role, reporting to the IT Infrastructure and Cloud Manager and will have responsibility for all aspects of the company’s cloud-based computing infrastructure and services.

This role is hybrid, with regular in-office presence in San Diego, CA. Specific location details and expectations will be discussed during the interview process.

This job description reflects management's assignment of essential functions; it does not prescribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.

• Assess current Azure and AWS instance and create continuous improvement roadmap.
• Define cloud systems strategy to maximize the return on IT investments, while meeting or exceeding uptime and performance expectations.
• Drive the adoption of best practices in cloud architecture and operations, ensuring high standards of performance and security.
• Design, plan, and implement Azure and AWS based systems and services in support of functional, storage, compute, data integration, and systems security initiatives.
• Collaborate with Sec Ops and IT Operations teams to ensure that new or updated solutions and services comply with the enterprise cyber security standards.
• Proactively identify and apply system updates to prevent issues, strengthen security, tune performance, automate tasks, and manage costs.
• Monitor Azure and AWS systems operations and address alerts, anomalies, and issues.
• Develop and support Disaster Recovery, Backup, and retention policies on Azure and AWS platforms.
• Maintain zero trust endpoint security with tools such as Microsoft Defender
• Develop and implement training programs for team members to enhance their skills and knowledge in Azure technologies
• Lead project planning and execution, ensuring timely delivery of cloud solutions and adherence to project timelines
• Manage cloud networking and security and monitor the logging of systems.
• Development and maintenance of IT policies and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with IT General Controls, provide needed information in support of audits and to substantiate process and controls compliance.
• Own and maintain enterprise monitoring and alerting platforms, including Zabbix and cloud‑native tools, to provide clear visibility into the health, performance, capacity, and availability of Azure and AWS environments.
• Build and support automation workflows using scripting and orchestration tools such as Ansible/AWX and operational runbooks to reduce manual effort, improve reliability, and streamline day‑to‑day operations.
• Identify and adopt practical AI‑assisted features within monitoring and automation tools to improve anomaly detection, alert quality, and operational insights, while ensuring decisions and remediation remain under engineering control.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, related technology field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 10+ years overall IT infrastructure experience, including 5+ years building and operating production workloads in Azure at enterprise scale
• Expertise in Azure cloud systems oversight, performance tuning, and administration.
• Linux Operating System Experience / Knowledge
• Strong knowledge of cloud security technologies and best practices
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code: design and security, configuration management, integration, deployment, performance monitoring and tuning, automation of infrastructure.
• Expertise with ARM templates and Terraform to enable automation.
• Expertise with Entra
• Expertise with networking and networking protocols & services.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Power Shell, Python, and Bash for automation.
• Expertise with…