Cloud Engineer- Remote

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Cloud Infrastructure Engineering and Operations - Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions in Microsoft Azure and AWS, with Azure as the primary platform and AWS support focused on integration with project-team-managed workloads and potential future expansion. - Build and maintain cloud networking, storage, compute, app services, virtualization, and containerized environments. - Ensure scalability, resiliency, and high availability through proactive performance tuning, capacity planning, and operational optimization. - Partner with operations teams to monitor production services, resolve incidents, and improve reliability across cloud platforms. Security, Identity, and Compliance - Implement and maintain cloud security configurations aligned with SEC security policies and zero-trust principles. - Engineer and support identity and access controls using Microsoft Entra Identity, RBAC, conditional access, and least-privilege models. - Enforce governance controls and policy compliance to support organizational and regulatory requirements, audit readiness, and risk reduction. - Drive patching, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration baselines across cloud-hosted infrastructure. Automation, IaC, and CI/CD Enablement - Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform to provision and manage infrastructure. - Integrate infrastructure workflows with CI/CD pipelines to standardize deployments, reduce manual effort, and improve release quality. - Implement reusable IaC modules, scripting standards, and version-controlled operational artifacts. - Advance automated operating models to increase consistency, security, and scalability. Migration, Modernization, and Technical Leadership - Lead migration of workloads from legacy/on-premises platforms to modern Azure cloud and hybrid architectures with minimal disruption. - Optimize cloud resource utilization, cost, and service performance based on operational and mission priorities. - Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers and cross-functional infrastructure teams. - Create and maintain architecture documentation, SOPs, and implementation guidance to support sustainable operations. Experience: - Minimum 8 years of experience in IT infrastructure roles, including 5+ years focused on Azure cloud engineering. - Demonstrated experience designing and managing secure, highly available cloud environments for enterprise services. - Proven experience leading Azure cloud migration and modernization efforts in regulated environments. - Experience designing, configuring, and administering Azure cloud enterprise implementations using compute cloud resources such as Virtual Machines, Scale sets, Azure containers or Kubernetes, and Cloud Services. - Strong experience with Azure tools such as Azure DevOps, Repos, Pipelines, and Boards. - Experienced in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as a service (SaaS) Cloud Hosting Architecture/Design patterns to meet scalability, capacity, availability, performance, storage, cost, and application/platform requirements Technical Skills: - Cloud networking, storage, app services, virtualization, and containerization - DevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation practices - Infrastructure-as-Code at production scale: PowerShell, Bicep, ARM templates, and Terraform, with reusable modules, automated validation, and drift detection. - Cloud governance, policy enforcement, operational compliance and security in Azure: Azure Policy, RBAC, conditional access, managed identities - Zero-trust security principles, networking design patterns, and secure cloud configuration practices - Microsoft Entra Identity services