Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Azure)

Hirebridge LLC; India; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hirebridge LLC is looking for a seasoned Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own the Azure VM estate, primarily Windows with a growing Linux footprint. You will ensure patching, backup, monitoring, and recoverability, and automate repetitive tasks using Terraform and scripting.

The role focuses on reliability and scalability as the company expands to 300+ VMs, with emphasis on reducing toil, incident response, and documenting runbooks for team-wide operability.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years of experience in cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on Azure VM management with Windows and Linux.
• Proven ability to automate repetitive tasks with code.

Responsibilities

• Own Azure VM estate health, reliability, performance, and capacity.
• Manage patching and update cycles with Azure Update Manager.
• Own backups and disaster recovery plans including tests.
• Build monitoring and alerts with Azure Monitor and KQL with auto-remediation.
• Automate VM lifecycle operations using Terraform and scripting.
• Handle incidents affecting the VM estate and perform root-cause analysis.
• Investigate issues where security tooling is involved and coordinate with security.
• Reduce toil by eliminating repetitive manual work through automation.
• Document runbooks and operational standards for team wide operability.

Skills

Automation

Scripting

Cloud infrastructure

Windows

Linux

Incident management

Root cause analysis

Tools

Terraform

Azure Monitor

Azure Update Manager

KQL / Kusto

Azure Backup

Azure Site Recovery

Job description

We are seeking a highly experienced (8-10 years) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own the reliability of our Azure virtual machine estate. Predominantly Windows today, with a smaller Linux footprint, currently around 60 VMs and growing to 300+ as we bring more business units onto the platform. Your job is to keep it patched, backed up, monitored, and recoverable, and automate yourself out of the repetitive tasks. We expect problems to be solved once, in code, with Terraform and scripting.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the health and reliability of the Azure VM estate (Windows and Linux), availability, performance, and capacity.
• Own / Run patching and update management with Azure Update Manager: patch compliance, maintenance windows, remediation of failures, and handling applications that need a version held or pinned without falling out of the compliance cycle.
• Own backup and disaster recovery: Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, and regular restore testing. A backup that was never restored doesn't count.
• Build monitoring and alerting with Azure Monitor and KQL (Kusto Query Language) and drive auto-remediation so known issues fix themselves.
• Automate VM lifecycle operations (provisioning, configuration, decommissioning) with Terraform and scripting.
• Manage incidents affecting the VM estate, drive root cause analysis, and fix the class of problem, not just the instance.
• Diagnose cases where the real root cause is security tooling. Antivirus/EDR flagging and quarantining an application file, for example, rather than assuming the fault sits in the application or the infrastructure.
• Support security-led investigations on the VM estate: pull logs, process activity, and access history on request, and hold off on remediating or restarting a box until security has cleared it.
• Reduce toil: identify repetitive manual work and eliminate it through automation.
• Document runbooks and operational standards, so the platform is operable by the whole team.