Azure Cloud Engineer

SCIENTEC CONSULTING PTE. LTD.; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 112,000 - 134,000; Part time

Job summary

SCIENTEC CONSULTING PTE. LTD. is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer to maintain and support cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure GCC for government workloads, ensuring scalability and reliability.

The role emphasizes IaC (Terraform/Ansible), monitoring (Dynatrace, ELK, Azure Monitor), and robust incident response in a hybrid setup in Singapore.

Qualifications

• Diploma/Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology.
• Proven experience in a platform, infrastructure, or cloud operations role.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (Azure GCC or equivalent).
• Experience with Windows Server administration, including patching and lifecycle management.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Dynatrace, ELK, Azure Monitor).
• Experience providing L2/L3 technical support for infrastructure or platform incidents.
• Experience maintaining backup, DR, and high-availability configurations.

Responsibilities

• Maintain critical infrastructure platforms across development, staging, and production environments.
• Implement IaC practices using Terraform and Ansible to automate provisioning.
• Support platform enhancements and ensure alignment with government enterprise standards.
• Manage the Azure GCC cloud platform including capacity monitoring and OS lifecycle management.
• Maintain monitoring and observability using Dynatrace, ELK, and Azure Monitor.
• Conduct patching and vulnerability remediation to minimise service disruption.
• Provide L2/L3 support for cloud infrastructure incidents.
• Support containerisation initiatives and orchestration for applicable workloads.

Skills

Cloud operations

Windows Server administration

L2/L3 troubleshooting

Container orchestration

Education

Diploma/Degree in CS/IT

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Dynatrace

ELK Stack

Azure Monitor

Job description

Azure Cloud Engineer

Working Hours: Mon-Fri (Hybrid)

Remuneration: Up to $11,000 + AWS

Employment Type: Contract (1 year renewable with chances of conversion)

Job Overview

We are looking for an Azure Cloud Engineer to work closely with agency officers to maintain and support critical cloud platforms and infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure Government Commercial Cloud (GCC), including related Windows Server platform services. This role focuses on ensuring platform scalability and reliability, implementing modern operational practices, and supporting infrastructure modernisation initiatives - while maintaining robust support for existing agency systems. The engineer will work closely with various stakeholders to ensure the stability and efficiency of essential government IT infrastructure and cloud-hosted workloads.

Responsibilities

• Maintain critical infrastructure platforms, including compute, storage, virtualisation, and supporting systems such as Azure GCC landing-zone resources and Windows Server platform services, across development, staging, and production environments.
• Follow and implement platform standards, executing infrastructure automation and modern operational practices, including Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible, to adopt cloud automation.
• Support platform enhancement initiatives and the implementation of new infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with government enterprise architecture standards and GCC-provided guardrails.
• Manage the Azure GCC cloud platform, including capacity monitoring, performance optimisation, and operating system lifecycle management.
• Implement and maintain robust monitoring and observability solutions across all platform components, using modern tooling (e.g. Dynatrace, ELK stack) and Azure Monitor / Azure-native monitoring tools where applicable.
• Execute platform patching strategies, leveraging automation to maintain security and stability while minimising service disruption, including Windows Server patch baselines and vulnerability remediation tracking.
• Provide L2/L3 technical support for platform-related incidents, conducting problem determination and resolution for cloud infrastructure and Windows platform incidents.
• Support containerisation initiatives and maintain container orchestration platforms for applicable workloads.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to automate platform provisioning and configuration management, with version control and peer review prior to deployment.
• Maintain backup, disaster recovery (DR), and high-availability solutions for critical platform components, including periodic DR testing and business continuity configurations.

Requirements

Required:

• Diploma/Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Proven experience in a platform, infrastructure, or cloud operations engineering role.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (Azure GCC or equivalent government/enterprise cloud environment preferred).
• Experience with Windows Server platform administration, including patching and lifecycle management.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tooling (e.g. Dynatrace, ELK stack, Azure Monitor).
• Experience providing L2/L3 technical support for infrastructure or platform incidents.
• Experience maintaining backup, DR, and high-availability configurations.

Good to Have:

• Experience with containerisation and container orchestration platforms.
• Familiarity with government enterprise architecture standards and cloud governance frameworks.
• Relevant certification (e.g. Microsoft Azure Administrator/Architect, or equivalent).
• Experience working in a government or regulated environment.