Azure Automation Engineer contract multiple location

Tech Mirrors; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Mirrors is seeking an Azure Automation Engineer to design and build automation that standardizes Azure platform delivery. This role involves creating production-grade infrastructure automation, implementing provisioning workflows, and developing Infra-as-code modules. Candidates should have experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and Azure Monitor.

The position requires excellent communication and documentation skills, along with relevant Azure certifications, and is based at various locations including Raleigh NC.

Qualifications

• Strong troubleshooting skills across identity/permissions, policy effects, and networking dependencies.
• Experience implementing Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts.
• Familiarity with ITSM/SDLC controls and tooling in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and build automation for Azure infrastructure deployments.
• Implement subscription provisioning workflows aligned to governance.
• Develop Infra-as-code modules for Azure services.

Skills

Terraform and/or Bicep/ARM templates

Azure DevOps Pipelines and/or GitHub

Scripting: PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Python

Azure Monitor/Log Analytics

Dynatrace

Education

Azure Administrator Associate / DevOps Engineer Expert Certification

Job description

Job Title: Azure Automation Engineer
Location: Phoenix AZ/ Raleigh NC/ Charlotte NC (Onsite)
Duration: Contract

Job Description

Azure Automation Engineer – Designs, builds, and operates automation that standardizes and accelerates Azure platform delivery. The role focuses on infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD enablement, subscription provisioning (vending), governance guardrail automation, and monitoring/alerting codification to ensure repeatable, compliant, and supportable deployments across environments.

Deliver production-grade automation for Azure infrastructure (design, build, test, rollout, and support), with strong troubleshooting across identity/permissions, policy effects, networking dependencies, quotas, and platform limits.

Implement and operate subscription provisioning/vending workflows aligned to enterprise governance (standard configuration, RBAC/policy bootstrap, logging/monitoring hooks, approvals, and promotion across environments).

Develop Infra-as-code modules to provision various Azure services.

Codify and operationalize monitoring and alerting baselines for production workloads, including alert tuning and operational readiness (runbooks, KT, handover).

Ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments, including promotion across lower/higher environments with appropriate controls.

Experience implementing Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts and onboarding services into enterprise observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace), including tagging standards and alert routing.

Working knowledge of Azure Landing Zone (enterprise-scale) concepts and automating platform guardrails (policy initiatives, RBAC patterns, management group structures).

Experience building discovery/inventory automation for tenants/subscriptions/resources (including service principals, groups, and role assignments) to support migration planning.

Familiarity with ITSM/SDLC controls and tooling (change tickets, UAT support, defect management such as JIRA) in regulated environments.

Certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate / DevOps Engineer Expert.

Technical Skills

• Terraform and/or Bicep/ARM templates
• Azure DevOps Pipelines and/or GitHub
• Azure Migrate or similar tools
• Scripting: PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Python
• Azure Monitor/Log Analytics
• Dynatrace
• Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent
• Azure platform automation: subscriptions, management groups, RBAC assignments, policy initiatives, and standard resource deployments
• PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python

Very good communication and documentation skills.