Azure Cloud Engineer
About The Position
Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure. The role owns the end-to-end cloud engineering lifecycle, including architecture, infrastructure as code, automation, security hardening, cost optimization, observability, and ongoing operational excellence for production workloads. The engineer partners with application development, security, and SRE teams to deliver cloud-native solutions that meet requirements for scalability, reliability, and compliance. The position is full-time, direct W2, and 100% remote in the United States. The listed salary range is $95,000–$125,000 annually. Bright Vision Technologies cannot sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position; U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Five or more years of cloud engineering experience, including at least three years focused on Microsoft Azure in production environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure compute, storage, networking, identity, and platform-as-a-service offerings.
- Production-level experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
- Solid experience designing and operating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters at scale.
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for CI/CD across infrastructure and applications.
- Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, and Python, including the ability to write maintainable automation code.
- Deep understanding of cloud security principles, identity management, and compliance frameworks.
- Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability strategies across distributed workloads.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
Nice To Haves
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification.
- Experience operating hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments spanning Azure and on-premises infrastructure.
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd on AKS.
- Exposure to FinOps practices and cloud cost-management tooling.
- Experience with regulated environments such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FedRAMP.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and operate secure, resilient, large-scale cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure.
- Own cloud engineering across architecture, infrastructure as code, automation, security hardening, cost optimization, observability, and production operations.
- Design and operate Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters at scale.
- Implement CI/CD for infrastructure and applications using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
- Develop automation using PowerShell, Bash, and Python.
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability strategies across distributed workloads.
- Troubleshoot cloud and production issues and document solutions.
- Partner with application development, security, and SRE teams to deliver cloud-native solutions.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
