Azure Cloud Engineer

Our client is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer for a consulting opportunity that will be based in Plano, TX. You will have the opportunity to work a hybrid schedule (3 days onsite / 2 days remote). Contract Duration: 6 - 12 months The ideal candidate will have experience with the following: • Cloud application modernization • Terraform • DevSecOps • DevOps • CI/CD Overview: • Manages implementation and the ongoing operation of cloud services following approved designs, adherence to patterns, security requirements and certifies all logging and monitoring are active for security and compliance. • Uses automation, configuration management and deployment tools to manage production environment, ensuring standardization and adherence to established controls and patterns. • Maintains comprehensive and systematic configuration, lifecycle and security management of servers • Ensures cloud services and toolsets are deployed leveraging best practices and documentation. • Acts as the first point of contact to business application owners and building bridge between them and cloud team. • Fosters the adoption of Cloud environment and deployments. Works with other Cloud engineers and Architects, application and business owners to deploy and improve the cloud environment. • Acts as the first point of contact for application and business owners. Implements or suggests strategies in IaC, CI/CD for leveraging faster and secure deployments. Escalates unresolved issues accordingly. • Collaborates with engineers, providing assistance, guidance and training as required. Participates in team activities such as daily standups, peer code reviews, design collaboration efforts and rotating on-call process. • • • This role does not allow for C2C consultants nor participate in C2H. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship • • •