Azure Cloud Engineer: Secure, Scalable Infra Expert

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 131,000 - 145,000; Part time

Job summary

Primary Talent Partners is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join a pharmaceutical client in Indianapolis, IN on a 5-month contract, with potential extensions. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable cloud solutions.

Responsibilities include Azure-based architecture, IaC (Terraform/Ansible/Bicep), CI/CD pipelines, security/compliance with GxP/21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA where relevant, and optimization of cost and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years hands-on Azure cloud engineering in a production enterprise environment.
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Bicep, ARM templates, or equivalent) and version control (Git).
• Scripting in Python or Bash for automation and tooling development.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, virtualization, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud security principles.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices in a cloud-native context.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy cloud architectures on Microsoft Azure that meet performance, security, availability, and cost-efficiency requirements for a diverse portfolio of enterprise and research applications.
• Architect and implement cloud networking, compute, storage, and identity constructs with security built in from the outset — applying least-privilege principles, network segmentation, encryption, and defense-in-depth across every layer.
• Evaluate and recommend cloud services, architectural patterns, and infrastructure approaches; build evidence-based adoption cases that account for engineering capability, operational cost, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) frameworks using Terraform, Ansible, Bicep, ARM templates, or equivalent — making infrastructure provisioning repeatable, auditable, and developer-friendly.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for cloud infrastructure and application deployments; ensure changes are tested, validated, and deployed safely with automated rollback capability.
• Drive automation of operational tasks — patching, scaling, monitoring, alerting, and cost optimization — reducing manual intervention and improving platform reliability and response time.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Security best practices

Automation mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Azure

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Primary Talent Partners is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join a pharmaceutical client in Indianapolis, IN on a 5-month contract, with potential extensions. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable cloud solutions.

Responsibilities include Azure-based architecture, IaC (Terraform/Ansible/Bicep), CI/CD pipelines, security/compliance with GxP/21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA where relevant, and optimization of cost and performance.