Azure Engineer

TEKsystems • Plano, TX

8d • $70 - $70 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Azure Engineer will work within a cloud infrastructure team, focusing on Azure infrastructure rather than primarily DevOps work. The role requires a strong understanding of Azure networking and infrastructure components, including DNS, subnets, storage accounts, and private endpoints, including how private endpoints connect to on-premises systems.

The engineer will automate cloud infrastructure and foundational platform services, develop provisioning capabilities that integrate identity and access management, networking, security policies, and observability, and build resiliency and FinOps capabilities into infrastructure automation for IaaS and PaaS services. The role also involves maintaining CI/CD pipelines for cloud platforms, virtual machine images, and containers; collaborating with product management, operations, and Information Security; and translating business needs into technical designs and deployment guidance. The position is described as a contract role based in Plano, Texas, with a hybrid workplace.

Requirements

• Extensive Azure experience and a strong understanding of core infrastructure and network components.
• Proficiency in Terraform, including the ability to distinguish Terraform from Terraform Enterprise.
• Expertise in creating Azure private endpoints and understanding their connectivity to on-premises systems.
• Knowledge of native Azure security tools such as Sentinel.
• Must work on W-2.

Nice To Haves

• 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 automation for public cloud landing zones and foundational platform services.
• Develop cloud services 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.
• Collaborate with technical product management and operations to deliver the engineering roadmap in 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.
• Assist technical analysts and infrastructure engineers in ensuring technology solutions comply with enterprise system design and engineering standards.
• Promote an inclusive and healthy working environment and help resolve organizational impediments and blockers.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, subject to eligibility and plan terms.
• Critical illness, accident, and hospital coverage, subject to eligibility and plan terms.
• 401(k) retirement plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available.
• Voluntary life and AD&D insurance for employees and dependents.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Health Spending Account (HSA).
• Transportation benefits.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Time off or leave, such as PTO, vacation, or sick leave, subject to eligibility and plan terms.

What This Job Offers

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