Azure Cloud Engineer - Remote AI-Driven Ops & CI/CD

jobgether; New York (NY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% remote work model

Career advancement opportunities

Professional certifications

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer based in the United States to own the reliability, security, and performance of Azure-hosted environments. You will automate infrastructure with Terraform, manage CI/CD via GitHub Actions, and collaborate with engineering teams across development, staging, and production.

This remote role emphasizes observability with Azure Monitor and Application Insights, cost governance, and security compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001) to keep enterprise workloads

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience operating production-grade enterprise workloads within Microsoft Azure environments.
• Deep proficiency with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, alongside CI/CD pipeline automation through GitHub Actions.
• Strong background in containerized applications (Azure Container Apps), managed relational databases (Azure PostgreSQL), and cloud networking/identity protocols (DNS, RBAC, Key Vault, Managed Identities).
• Demonstrated experience setting up enterprise observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
• Solid scripting skills in Bash, PowerShell, or Python for operational automation, health checks, and troubleshooting.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and documentation skills, with preferred exposure to AI service operations (Azure OpenAI/AI Foundry), message queues (Service Bus), or FinOps cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Administer Azure cloud infrastructure across dev, QA, staging, and production environments, maintaining services like Container Apps, Static Web Apps, PostgreSQL, Service Bus, Azure Arc, and SignalR.
• Develop and maintain modular Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, managing state files, workspaces, variable structures, resource tagging, and drift remediation.
• Build, safeguard, and troubleshoot automated CI/CD deployment workflows in GitHub Actions, implementing release gates, approval mechanisms, secret protection, and rollback procedures.
• Monitor operational health, latency, quotas, token usage, and costs for Azure AI services, including Azure AI Foundry, Speech-to-Text workloads, and LLM integrations.
• Implement observability, dashboards, and actionable alerts using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights while establishing clear SLIs and SLOs.
• Drive incident response, triage, and root-cause analysis across deployments, maintaining operational runbooks, disaster recovery strategies, and security compliance standards (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Skills

Azure

CI/CD

Scripting (Bash/Python/PowerShell)

Communications

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure Monitor

Azure PostgreSQL

Azure Container Apps

Job description

Jobgether is seeking an Azure Cloud Engineer based in the United States to own the reliability, security, and performance of Azure-hosted environments. You will automate infrastructure with Terraform, manage CI/CD via GitHub Actions, and collaborate with engineering teams across development, staging, and production.

This remote role emphasizes observability with Azure Monitor and Application Insights, cost governance, and security compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001) to keep enterprise workloads