Azure Cloud Engineer Terraform Modules & Patterns Platform Enablement) Glen Allen, VA

Accord Technologies Inc; Glen Allen (VA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Accord Technologies Inc in Glen Allen, VA is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to design and deliver standardized Terraform modules and reference patterns for Azure, enabling faster onboarding and consistent provisioning. You will build CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, collaborate with SRE teams, and ensure secure cloud foundations across AKS, ARO, Front Door, APIM, and other Azure services.

This contract role emphasizes reusable platform components, solid documentation, and strong

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on Azure engineering experience (or equivalent depth) delivering production-grade solutions.
• Strong hands-on Terraform experience building modules, composition patterns, and managing environments/state.
• Proven experience with Azure services such as AKS, ARO, Front Door, Storage Accounts, APIM, Functions, Azure SQL.
• Experience building CI/CD automation using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of secure cloud practices: RBAC, least privilege, secrets management, and deployment guardrails.
• Excellent documentation and collaboration skills; able to translate requirements into standardized building blocks.

Responsibilities

• Develop, and maintain reusable Terraform modules and reference architectures/patterns that align to internal standards and governance.
• Create golden path onboarding patterns that enable rapid and consistent provisioning for USB applications (e.g., network + compute + security + observability ready).
• Produce high-quality module documentation (inputs/outputs, examples, versioning) and enforce coding standards across repos.
• Provision and support Azure services using Terraform, including AKS, ARO, Azure Front Door, Storage Accounts, Azure API Management (APIM), Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database.
• Partner with SRE/CloudOps to implement reliable, scalable, and secure cloud foundations that reduce toil and improve onboarding velocity.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for Terraform plan/apply workflows, quality gates, and automated validations.
• Work closely with application teams to onboard workloads and translate requirements into reusable modules/patterns.
• Contribute to operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge capture to enable self-service onboarding and consistent execution.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD

Documentation

Collaboration

Security best practices

Tools

GitHub Actions

AKS

Azure Front Door

Azure APIM

Azure Functions

Azure SQL Database

Key Vault

Job description

Location: Glen Allen, VA

Position type: W2 contract

Title: Azure Cloud Engineer (Terraform Modules & Patterns | Platform Enablement)

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to help accelerate application onboarding by designing and delivering standardized, reusable Terraform modules and reference patterns for Azure. This role will focus on building a simple, consistent, and secure cloud provisioning experience leveraging GitHub/GitHub Actions for CI/CD so application teams can onboard faster with less dependency on specialized engineering support.

Key Responsibilities

Terraform Module Engineering & Patterns

• Develop, and maintain reusable Terraform modules and reference architectures/patterns that align to internal standards and governance.
• Create golden path onboarding patterns that enable rapid and consistent provisioning for USB applications (e.g., network + compute + security + observability ready).
• Produce high-quality module documentation (inputs/outputs, examples, versioning) and enforce coding standards across repos.Azure Platform Delivery (Core Services)

• Provision and support Azure services using Terraform, including (but not limited to):
  • AKS, ARO, Azure Front Door, Storage Accounts, Azure API Management (APIM), Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database (and related dependencies like networking, DNS, key vault, etc.).
• Partner with SRE/CloudOps to implement reliable, scalable, and secure cloud foundations that reduce toil and improve onboarding velocity.

CI/CD Automation (GitHub / GitHub Actions)

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for Terraform plan/apply workflows, quality gates, and automated validations
• Implement Git-based workflow practices (branching strategy, PR reviews, versioning, release tags) to support repeatable provisioning.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Work closely with application teams to onboard workloads and translate requirements into reusable modules/patterns.
• Contribute to operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge capture to enable self-service onboarding and consistent execution.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on Azure engineering experience (or equivalent depth) delivering production-grade solutions.
• Strong hands-on Terraform experience building modules, composition patterns, and managing environments/state.
• Proven experience with Azure services such as AKS, ARO, Front Door, Storage Accounts, APIM, Functions, Azure SQL.
• Experience building CI/CD automation using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of secure cloud practices: RBAC, least privilege, secrets management, and deployment guardrails.
• Excellent documentation and collaboration skills; able to translate requirements into standardized building blocks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SRE/CloudOps operating models, reliability principles, and reducing operational toil through automation
• Experience with GitOps concepts and enterprise branching/release strategies.
• Experience building platform onboarding capabilities (templates, scaffolding, validations) for internal developer enablement