Cloud Systems Engineer
6 - 10 years
United States
Contract
Remote
1 month ago
About the role
Cloud Systems Engineer
Duration: 6-12 Month Contract-to-Hire
Location: Remote (preference for east or central coast)
Reports to: Director of IT System Engineering
Job Overview:
Our client is looking for a Cloud Systems Engineer who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and innovation. You'll be the hands-on expert shaping how their organization runs on Microsoft Azure — designing resilient systems, driving automation, and helping move faster without compromising security or compliance. If you're energized by complex cloud challenges and love seeing your work power real business outcomes, this role is built for you.
WHAT YOU'LL BUILD & OPERATE
SECURITY & COMPLIANCE IMPACT
AUTOMATION & ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE
WHAT YOU BRING
Required:
Nice to have:
HOW YOU WORK
Ready to architect what's next? Join a team that treats cloud infrastructure as a strategic advantage.
Duration: 6-12 Month Contract-to-Hire
Location: Remote (preference for east or central coast)
Reports to: Director of IT System Engineering
Job Overview:
Our client is looking for a Cloud Systems Engineer who thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, security, and innovation. You'll be the hands-on expert shaping how their organization runs on Microsoft Azure — designing resilient systems, driving automation, and helping move faster without compromising security or compliance. If you're energized by complex cloud challenges and love seeing your work power real business outcomes, this role is built for you.
WHAT YOU'LL BUILD & OPERATE
- Own the Azure environment end-to-end
- Design, deploy, and manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS workloads — from Virtual Machines and Scale Sets to Storage accounts (Blob, File, Queue, Table) — keeping production running smoothly.
- Be the incident response anchor
- Lead technical triage and root cause analysis for production issues. Your work directly protects the reliability that the business depends on.
- Drive observability and cost intelligence
- Build monitoring and alerting with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics. Spot performance and capacity risks before they become incidents, and champion cloud cost optimization.
SECURITY & COMPLIANCE IMPACT
- Implement Zero Trust from the ground up
- Design and enforce cloud security controls, RBAC policies, managed identities, and CI/CD integration — not as an afterthought, but as a first-class part of how they build.
- Own secrets and certificate lifecycle
- Design and manage Azure Key Vault for secrets, keys, and certificates — keeping sensitive material protected across every environment.
- Power audit readiness for SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA, and PCI
- Partner with security teams with solid technical evidence — turning audit prep from a scramble into a smooth, repeatable process.
AUTOMATION & ENGINEERING EXCELLENCE
- Make infrastructure reproducible
- Maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (ARM, Bicep, or Terraform) and manage version-controlled deployment workflows. Manual work gets automated; standards get documented.
- Shape emerging platform capabilities
- Collaborate on Microsoft Fabric data and analytics initiatives, and help onboard and govern Azure AI Foundry resources — a rare opportunity to work at the frontier of enterprise AI infrastructure.
WHAT YOU BRING
Required:
- 5+ years in infrastructure, systems, or cloud engineering
- 3+ years of hands-on Azure experience
- Strong networking and identity fundamentals
- Proficiency in PowerShell, Python, or Bash
Nice to have:
- Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-500)
- Hybrid cloud experience
- Expertise with Microsoft Entra ID
- Familiarity with AI/Gen AI ethics and governance
HOW YOU WORK
- Security-first mindset
- Strong problem-solving instincts
- Clear communicator across technical and business teams
- Continuous improvement orientation
Ready to architect what's next? Join a team that treats cloud infrastructure as a strategic advantage.
Skills
Information TechnologyIT Services and IT Consulting