Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

KCI; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

KCI Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Administrator to support Azure IaaS, ANF, VMs and AVD, ensuring reliability, security, and modernization of the cloud environment across the organization.

You will provision resources, monitor services, respond to incidents, maintain runbooks and documentation, and collaborate with internal teams to migrate file services to ANF while applying best practices in RBAC and networking.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information systems, Computer Science, or equivalent.
• 3–5 years of systems administration experience, including 2+ years administering Microsoft Azure in production environments (IaaS).
• Hands-on experience with Azure IaaS operations (VMs, resource organization, standard operational tooling).
• Experience with Azure NetApp Files, performance tiers/service levels, snapshots, troubleshooting and replication concepts.
• Experience supporting Azure VMs and AVD environments.
• Familiarity with Azure RBAC concepts and standard built‑in roles.

Responsibilities

• Create/maintain Azure Resource Groups according to established naming, tagging, and environment standards to support ownership and lifecycle clarity.
• Assist with operational governance activities (tag hygiene, stale resource cleanup, cost/usage visibility).
• Apply least-privilege access principles using Azure RBAC and standard built-in roles; support periodic access reviews and remediation tasks assigned by security/lead.
• Support day-to-day Azure networking fundamentals such as VNets/subnets, NSGs, routing, DNS, and secure connectivity troubleshooting in coordination with network/security teams.
• Administer ANF resources including NetApp accounts, capacity pools, and volumes (create, modify, document, and maintain).
• Perform operational tasks such as resizing, tier/service-level adjustments, and troubleshooting volume access/performance issues.
• Implement and maintain ANF data protection practices such as snapshots and disaster recovery readiness activities.
• Provision and maintain Azure Windows VMs and AVD environments: sizing, disk management, backups, and lifecycle tasks (start/stop, redeploy, deallocate, retire).
• Support patching/maintenance routines.
• Resolve common VM/AVD issues (CPU/memory/vGPU, disk latency, connectivity).
• Support core AVD operational components (host pools/session hosts, scaling, image lifecycle, and operational troubleshooting) as part of day‑to‑day support.
• Configure and monitor Azure services using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights; investigate alerts, document findings, and escalated as needed.
• Participate in incident response support activities (triage, evidence gathering, containment steps as directed) consistent with IT/security procedures.
• Contribute to runbooks, SOPs, and operational documentation to increase repeatability and reduce operational risk.
• Work with internal teams to support initiatives involving Azure-hosted workloads and storage modernization, including file services migration to ANF.
• Provide timely, clear communication on incidents, service requests, and changes; maintain high-quality ticket notes and post-incident summaries.
• - Other duties as assigned

Skills

Azure IaaS

Azure NetApp Files

Azure Virtual Machines

Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure RBAC

Networking basics

Monitoring & alerting

Documentation

Incident response

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or Computer Science

Job description

KCI Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure Administrator to support Azure IaaS, ANF, VMs and AVD, ensuring reliability, security, and modernization of the cloud environment across the organization.

You will provision resources, monitor services, respond to incidents, maintain runbooks and documentation, and collaborate with internal teams to migrate file services to ANF while applying best practices in RBAC and networking.