Azure Engineer with Terraform and ITOps expertise

Position: Azure Engineer with Terraform and ITOps expertise

Location: 100% Remote job

Duration: 12+ Months contract

Client: Fiserv

Pay:$80/hr on W2 without benefits

Job Description:

We’re seeking an Azure Engineer with ITOps expertise to work on a team focused on keeping the systems secure, stable, and available. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in production support, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and a genuine passion for ensuring critical systems operate smoothly and efficiently. You’ll collaborate closely with product, security, and operations teams to automate everything—provisioning, deployments, observability, incident response, and compliance—while supporting a rotational shift model to ensure 24x7 coverage.

Role Description

Design, build, and maintain Azure landing zones and platform services (e.g., VNet, Private Endpoints, Key Vault, Azure Firewall/NSGs, Application Gateway/WAF)

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and/or Bicep; enforce GitOps workflows (branching, PRs, policy checks)

Create reusable modules, pipelines, and golden patterns for app teams; champion automation-first approaches

Define and measure SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability roadmaps for critical services

Implement and tune observability (logs, metrics, traces) using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Prometheus/Grafana where applicable

Conduct capacity planning, resiliency testing (chaos, failover, DR), and performance tuning across services

Build secure, robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Pipelines) with automated testing, scans, and approvals

Standardize deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) for containerized and PaaS workloads

Implement guardrails using Azure Policy, RBAC, PIM, and Blueprints (or equivalent) to enforce least privilege and compliance (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA as relevant)

Manage secrets and certificates (Key Vault) and integrate security testing (SAST/DAST/Container scanning) into pipelines

Support vulnerability remediation and patching SLAs

Own incident response, including rotational shifts and on-call; lead triage, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews

Optimize cost (FinOps), tagging standards, budgets, and proactive spending alerts

Maintain runbooks, knowledge base articles, and automation for routine operations

Act as a technical mentor; review designs/PRs; contribute to architecture decisions

Partner with app teams to onboard workloads, define nonfunctional requirements, and drive platform adoption

Your Skills and Experience

5 to 7 years of hands-on experience supporting Azure-based infrastructure and services in production

Expertise in several of: AKS, App Services, Functions, APIM, Azure SQL/MI, Cosmos DB, Storage, Event Hub/Service Bus, Redis, VNet/Peering, Private Link, Application Gateway/WAF, Front Door

Strong IaC with Terraform (preferred) and/or Bicep; Git-based workflows; GitHub or Azure DevOps

Proven SRE background: SLI/SLO design, error budgets, incident management, RCA, capacity and performance engineering

CI/CD design and operations (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Pipelines); artifact/versioning strategies; release governance

Observability with Azure: Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and alerting/automations (Action Groups, Logic Apps, Functions)

Solid networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, routing, firewalls, load balancing), identity (AAD/Entra ID), and secrets management (Key Vault)

Scripting proficiency in PowerShell and/or Python; Linux fundamentals

Strong understanding of Azure security best practices, including Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Azure Policy, and Managed Identities for secure access management and governance

Technology/Skill

Total Experience in Years

Latest year of Experience

Additional Comments

MS Azure

Azure ITOps

Azure Gov Cloud

Experience supporting Azure-based infrastructure and services in production

Expertise in several of: AKS, App Services, Functions, APIM, Azure SQL/MI, Cosmos DB, Storage, Event Hub/Service Bus, Redis, VNet/Peering, Private Link, Application Gateway/WAF, Front Door

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and/or Bicep

Champion automation-first approaches

Experience with SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability roadmaps

Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and alerting/automations (Action Groups, Log…