Azure Cloud Engineer - IaC & DevOps Specialist

Kforce Inc; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

HSA

FSA

401(k)

Job summary

Kforce is seeking an IT Cloud Engineer in Kansas City, MO to build, automate, and operate cloud-based infrastructure and applications; delivering changes through infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities include managing Azure services, building CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, implementing monitoring and SLOs, and supporting incident response to minimize downtime.

You will work with cross-functional teams, uphold security standards in the Azure ecosystem, create runbooks

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Minimum of one IT industry certification (Azure Admin, Azure DevOps Engineer Expert, Terraform Associate, etc.)
• Two+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE role in enterprise with scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; strong team-building ability
• Automation-first mindset focused on reliability and continuous improvement

Responsibilities

• Build, automate, and operate cloud-based infrastructure and applications
• Manage and maintain Azure services using infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Build and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for deployments
• Implement monitoring, alerts, and SLOs across Azure environment
• Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews
• Maintain security standards in the Azure ecosystem
• Create system diagrams and runbooks
• Provide Tier 3 operational support

Skills

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD

PowerShell

Bash

Python

SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree

Cloud certification

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

PowerShell

Job description

Kforce is seeking an IT Cloud Engineer in Kansas City, MO to build, automate, and operate cloud-based infrastructure and applications; delivering changes through infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines. Responsibilities include managing Azure services, building CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, implementing monitoring and SLOs, and supporting incident response to minimize downtime.

You will work with cross-functional teams, uphold security standards in the Azure ecosystem, create runbooks