Azure Engineer

TEKsystems•Plano, TX

8d•$70 - $70•Hybrid

About The Position

The Azure Engineer works on a cloud infrastructure team, focusing on Azure infrastructure rather than primarily DevOps work. The role requires a strong understanding of Azure networking and infrastructure, including DNS, subnets, storage accounts, private endpoints, and connectivity to on-premises systems. The position is hybrid in Plano, Texas, with three days onsite, and requires W-2 employment. It is described as an expert-level contract position. The engineer automates public cloud infrastructure and landing zones, provisions foundational cloud services, and builds in identity and access management, networking, security policies as code, observability, resiliency, and FinOps capabilities. The role also develops and maintains cloud service catalogs and CI/CD pipelines for cloud platforms, virtual machine images, and containers. Working with product management, operations, and Information Security, the engineer helps deliver an Agile engineering roadmap and secure cloud application patterns. The role translates business needs into technical definitions and deployment materials, supports compliance with enterprise architecture and engineering standards, and helps foster an inclusive working environment.

Requirements

Extensive Azure experience and a strong understanding of core infrastructure and network components.
Proficiency in Terraform and the ability to distinguish between Terraform and Terraform Enterprise.
Expertise creating Azure private endpoints and understanding their connectivity to on-premises systems.
Knowledge of native Azure security tools such as Sentinel.
Experience with cloud infrastructure-as-code automation.
Experience with cloud-services provisioning automation.
Experience developing cloud CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

Write public cloud infrastructure-as-code automation using tools such as Terraform.
Design and develop public cloud landing-zone automation for foundational cloud platform services.
Develop cloud-service provisioning automation integrating IAM, networking, security policies as code, and observability.
Implement resiliency, observability, and FinOps capabilities in infrastructure automation for IaaS and PaaS services.
Develop and maintain cloud-services CI/CD pipelines for cloud platforms, virtual machine images, and containers.
Develop and maintain a cloud services catalog.
Collaborate with technical product management and operations to deliver the engineering roadmap using an Agile model.
Partner with Information Security teams to engineer secure application patterns into cloud platforms.
Research and gather information to define stakeholders’ business problems.
Translate business requirements into technical definitions, reference models, blueprints, and deployment playbooks in compliance with architecture standards and policies.
Assist technical analysts and infrastructure engineers in ensuring solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.
Promote an inclusive and healthy working environment and help resolve organizational impediments and blockers.