Azure Cloud Engineer — Hybrid Cloud, AVD & DevOps

ARS; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ARS-Rescue Rooter seeks an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and secure enterprise Azure environments. You will work on Azure IaaS, AVD, migrations, and DevOps automation to deliver scalable, compliant hybrid-cloud solutions in collaboration with Infrastructure, Security, Networking, and Application teams.

The role focuses on building secure, resilient, and governance-driven cloud platforms, with emphasis on Zero Trust, PCI DSS, and multi‑service integration across SQL,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; equivalent professional experience considered.
• 5+ years of enterprise infrastructure engineering experience, including 3+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Azure infrastructure, AVD, cloud migrations, hybrid networking, IaC/automation, identity/access management, and cloud security.
• Experience supporting regulated environments using PCI DSS, NIST, CIS, or similar frameworks.
• Working knowledge of SQL Server/Azure SQL Managed Instance, containerization/Kubernetes/AKS, and Azure Cosmos DB.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, maintain, and optimize secure, highly available Azure IaaS environments, including VMs, storage, backup, monitoring, recovery, landing zones, governance, and operational baselines.
• Design and administer AVD environments, including host pools, session hosts, images, application delivery, scaling, user experience, and FSLogix.
• Secure and automate AVD using Entra ID, Conditional Access, MFA, RBAC, Zero Trust, Terraform, PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Azure DevOps.
• Plan and execute on‑premises infrastructure and application migrations to Azure, including readiness assessments, modernization, re‑platforming, remediation, and hybrid transition support.
• Design and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and IaC using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, PowerShell, Azure CLI, and YAML.
• Establish version control, release management, automated validation, repeatable deployment standards, and technical/operational documentation.
• Partner with database teams on Azure infrastructure for SQL Server Always On to Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server to Cosmos DB migrations, including networking, sizing/capacity, backup/recovery, monitoring, and cutover support.
• Support modernization of IIS-hosted applications through containerization, CI/CD, and deployment to Kubernetes/AKS in partnership with application development teams.

Skills

Azure infrastructure engineering

Hybrid networking

IaC/automation

Identity/access management

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Azure

AVD

Terraform

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Kubernetes/AKS

Azure DevOps

SQL Server/Azure SQL

Job description

ARS-Rescue Rooter seeks an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and secure enterprise Azure environments. You will work on Azure IaaS, AVD, migrations, and DevOps automation to deliver scalable, compliant hybrid-cloud solutions in collaboration with Infrastructure, Security, Networking, and Application teams.

The role focuses on building secure, resilient, and governance-driven cloud platforms, with emphasis on Zero Trust, PCI DSS, and multi‑service integration across SQL,