

Cloud Engineer
β - Featured Role | Apply direct with Data Freelance Hub
This role is for a Cloud Engineer with a 6-month contract, offering a pay rate of "pay rate". The position requires 10+ years of cloud infrastructure experience in Azure or Google Cloud, preferably in the financial industry, and relevant certifications are preferred.
π - Country
United States
π± - Currency
$ USD
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π° - Day rate
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ποΈ - Date discovered
June 25, 2025
π - Project duration
Unknown
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ποΈ - Location type
Unknown
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π - Contract type
Unknown
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π - Security clearance
Unknown
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π - Location detailed
Phoenix, AZ
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π§ - Skills detailed
#Azure #Kubernetes #Disaster Recovery #Airflow #Azure Function Apps #Observability #Scripting #Scala #Monitoring #Deployment #Infrastructure as Code (IaC) #Splunk #Defender #Documentation #Code Reviews #Data Processing #Security #Automation #Cloud #Storage
Role description
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Key Technical Skills Required:
β’ 10+ years of Cloud Infrastructure experience (Azure or Google Cloud).
β’ Experience within the financial industry and/or a highly regulated technology organization.
β’ Expertise in building Cloud services & components using IAC (Infrastructure as Code)
β’ Expertise in building, deploying, and managing cloud services such as Azure APIM, managed Kubernetes services like AKS or GKE, Storage, Azure Function Apps/Google Cloud Functions, data processing services like DAG, Airflow, Google Composer etc. with a focus on High Availability and Scalability.
β’ Expertise in setting up Cloud Monitoring and management tools, experience with incident response and troubleshooting, scripting, and automation skills.
β’ Experienced in implementing information security best practices β using security tools such as MS Defender, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Snyk etc.
β’ Experience with Observability/Monitoring technologies like Splunk, CloudWatch, Azure Monitoring etc.
β’ Excellent communication skills.
β’ Adaptable, innovative and stays current in Cloud technologies.
β’ Candidates with relevant certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator, are preferred.
Roles and Responsibilities:
β’ Build and manage cloud infrastructure, services and applications using automation.
β’ Build, deploy and manage Highly Available and Scalable cloud services such as Azure APIM, managed Kubernetes services like AKS or GKE, Storage, Azure Function Apps/Google Cloud Functions, data processing services like DAG, Airflow, Google Composer etc.
β’ Ensure continuous monitoring of cloud resources, respond to incidents and outages adhering to SLA(s), automating operational tasks, managing backups and disaster recovery plans, and ensuring high availability.
β’ Manage, maintain, and monitor different infrastructure components (servers, network, applications).
β’ Provide hands-on technical expertise during service impacting events.
β’ Collaborate with other engineers on code reviews, internal infrastructure improvements and process enhancements and measure, tune and optimize system performance.
β’ Adhere to security and regulatory best practices involving cloud deployments β implement recommendations from security tools such as MS Defender, CrowdStrike, Wiz, Snyk etc.
β’ Troubleshoot and remediate issues impacting the operation of the overall infrastructure.
β’ Automate routine systems tasks and processes using PowerShell or similar tools.
β’ Maintain security, backup, and redundancy of the enterprise environment.
β’ Build and maintain βplaybooksβ and other supporting documentation.
β’ Collaborate with team members to perform regular system audit and security reviews.
β’ Managing projects/processes, working independently with limited supervision.
β’ Participate in periodic 24x7 on-call duties.
β’ Other duties as assigned.