Azure Cloud Engineer

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