Remote Senior Azure Cloud Engineer: IaC & Automation

Velozient; Colombia; A distancia; COP 440.086.000 - 565.824.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

15 days PTO + floating day + holidays

Remote work

Paid holidays

Descripción de la vacante

Velozient is seeking a remote Senior Cloud Engineer with 5+ years of Azure expertise to join a U.S. client.

You will design and automate cloud infrastructure, build self‑service tools, and drive IaC with Bicep and Terraform, while collaborating with development teams to improve deployment models and operational workflows. Responsibilities include constructing Azure infrastructure, implementing GitHub Actions pipelines, and guiding teams on cloud best practices.

Formación

• 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Strong understanding of Azure architecture and common Azure services.
• Experience with Azure subscriptions, resource groups, RBAC, Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, service principals, and Key Vault.
• Practical Azure networking experience, including VNETs, subnets, NSGs, DNS, VPNs, private endpoints, public/private connectivity, and firewall concepts.
• Experience with Azure SQL and related Azure database infrastructure.
• Experience with Azure PaaS and container‑based application hosting.
• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code using Bicep, Terraform, ARM templates, or similar technologies.
• Strong experience with GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD automation.
• Experience writing automation or software using at least one general‑purpose language or scripting environment such as PowerShell, C#, or Python
• Ability to independently research unfamiliar technologies and communicate findings clearly.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills across cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, and deployment systems
• Strong communication skills when working directly with software engineers and senior technical staff.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and improve Azure infrastructure and supporting automation.
• Build reusable GitHub Actions, deployment workflows, and self‑service engineering tools.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code using Bicep and Terraform.
• Automate infrastructure and operational workflows using PowerShell, Azure CLI, APIs, and application code where appropriate.
• Improve existing infrastructure and automation from proof‑of‑concept to production.
• Work with development teams to understand their applications, infrastructure requirements, and deployment models.
• Help teams solve cloud, networking, identity, and deployment issues without taking ownership away from the teams themselves.
• Support Azure tenant, subscription, and workload migrations in partnership with application teams.
• Help establish repeatable patterns for provisioning databases, application infrastructure, networking, DNS, identity, configuration, and related cloud resources.
• Improve infrastructure deployment through Octopus Deploy, increasing infrastructure‑as‑code and repeatable deployment processes.
• Work with Cloudflare, Terraform, and related tooling to improve DNS, routing, TLS, load balancing, and application connectivity patterns.
• Assist with gradual simplification and cleanup of a smaller AWS footprint.
• Evaluate technical approaches, identify tradeoffs and limitations, and make pragmatic recommendations before implementation.

Conocimientos

Azure experience

CI/CD automation

Infrastructure-as-Code

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Azure CLI

APIs

Herramientas

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Octopus Deploy

Azure CLI

Descripción del empleo

Velozient is seeking a remote Senior Cloud Engineer with 5+ years of Azure expertise to join a U.S. client.

You will design and automate cloud infrastructure, build self‑service tools, and drive IaC with Bicep and Terraform, while collaborating with development teams to improve deployment models and operational workflows. Responsibilities include constructing Azure infrastructure, implementing GitHub Actions pipelines, and guiding teams on cloud best practices.