Azure Cloud Engineer
- Source: LinkedIn
- IT Accel, Inc.
- $166,400 to $197,600 /yr
- On-site
- Jamaica
- Full-Time
- Mid level
Job Description
Title: Azure Cloud Engineer
Type: Contract
Location: Jamaica,New York
Schedule: In-office 2-3x a week
Azure Cloud Engineering
- Design, deploy, and optimize Azure workloads and supporting platform services
- Support architecture and engineering decisions across Entra, AKS, Azure Virtual Machines, and related Azure capabilities
Security & Reliability
- Help implement secure configuration, identity controls, resilience, and operational standards for Azure environments
- Support monitoring, backup, failover, and recovery readiness
Optimization & Automation
- Improve automation, provisioning speed, and infrastructure consistency through tooling and repeatable engineering patterns
- Partner on usage optimization and cost-aware design decisions
Cross-Functional Delivery
- Work with infrastructure, security, and development teams to support enterprise platforms and practice development activities running on Azure
You Have:
- 5+ years of experience designing and supporting Azure environments in production
- Strong hands-on knowledge of Azure services including Entra, AKS, Azure Virtual Machines, and related infrastructure capabilities
- Experience with automation, infrastructure as code, and secure cloud operations
- Comfortability troubleshooting, optimizing, and improving Azure environments, with a focus on scalable, secure, and reliable outcomes
- Ability to work across engineering, security, and operational teams
- Bachelor’s degree preferred; Azure certifications are a plus
Skills
- microsoft-azure
- azure-virtual-machines
