Senior Cloud Engineer

THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

• A growing enterprise technology organization in the middle of a significant modernization of its infrastructure, cloud environment, and operating practices
• An infrastructure and cloud team completing a large-scale migration of hundreds of servers and SQL instances into Azure, and preparing to take full day-to-day ownership of the new environment
• A collaborative group working across cloud engineering, infrastructure, database administration, application teams, and an external managed services partner
• An organization investing heavily in Azure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automation
• This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role focused on building, automating, and operating the organization’s Azure environment

 
LOCATION

• Fort Mill, SC, Charlotte metro area
• On-site environment
• Opportunity to work closely with infrastructure leadership and the broader technology team during a major period of transformation

 
WHAT THEY OFFER YOU

• Ownership of a newly built Azure environment as it moves from migration into day-to-day operation, rather than maintaining a mature platform someone else designed
• A deep backlog of hands-on build work: Bicep, GitHub Actions pipelines, provisioning automation, monitoring, and security hardening
• The chance to shape how infrastructure code, pipelines, and environments are built going forward
• Exposure to emerging AI initiatives, including the Azure infrastructure that supports them
• Visibility with infrastructure leadership and room to grow into a lead role as the cloud practice expands
• Competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package

 
WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANT

• The organization is closing out a major migration into Azure and will soon own the environment day to day. It needs a senior engineer who can run it and build on it
• There is more infrastructure work stacking up than the current team can absorb. This role adds senior, hands-on capacity, not another layer of design and oversight
• This person will extend the environment as code: building on existing Bicep modules, standing up GitHub Actions pipelines, and automating provisioning so environments can be deployed consistently and quickly
• Security, cost, and reliability run through this role, including identity and access, Azure Policy guardrails, secrets management, monitoring, and cost optimization
• You will work alongside infrastructure leadership, database and application teams, and an external managed services partner, and serve as a go-to Azure resource for the team
• The organization is looking for someone who can take a priority, determine the right approach, and deliver it without needing every detail spelled out

 
THE BACKGROUND THAT FITS

• 6+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, including 3+ years hands-on in Azure production environments
• Production experience writing and deploying Bicep or ARM templates; Terraform-first Azure engineers comfortable working in an existing Bicep codebase will also be considered
• Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps for infrastructure deployments
• Strong Azure IaaS background: VMs, VNets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, load balancing, DNS, VPN/ExpressRoute, and storage
• Working knowledge of Azure identity and security, including Entra ID, RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Vault, and Azure Policy
• Scripting in PowerShell and Azure CLI, with Git-based version control
• Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, or comparable monitoring tools
• Experience supporting production environments, including incident response and on-call
• Experience with on-premises to Azure migrations, Azure Landing Zones, or working alongside managed service providers is a strong plus
• Azure certifications such as AZ-104 or AZ-400 are a plus
• A builder’s mindset: comfortable owning work end to end and moving quickly from priority to working solution

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