Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer | AKS & CI/CD

Kiewit; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 150,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

Kiewit is seeking a hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to build, automate, and support Azure cloud environments for modern app, data, and AI workloads. You will focus on infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, secure cloud resource management, and modern release practices.

The role requires strong Azure, AKS, container, PostgreSQL, storage, CI/CD, and cloud security expertise, with a focus on reproducible automation at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, or systems roles.
• Hands-on Azure experience in production or enterprise environments.
• Strong infrastructure as code experience; Bicep preferred, Terraform highly valued.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes; AKS preferred.
• Experience with containers, Docker, container registries, and deployment automation.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
• Experience with cloud storage, data lake, or hierarchical storage patterns.
• Solid understanding of cloud security, identity, networking, monitoring, and least-privilege access.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar.
• Scripting experience with PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Preferred Qualifications: Helm, Dagster, Flux, GitOps, Kubernetes release tooling.
• Experience supporting data engineering, analytics, AI/ML, vector or graph databases.
• Azure Policy, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud, Monitor, Log Analytics, or Application Insights.
• Familiarity with cloud governance, tagging, cost controls, landing zones, and enterprise security standards.
• Azure, DevOps, or Kubernetes certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and maintain Azure resources across managed resource groups.
• Develop reusable infrastructure as code using Bicep, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Support Azure Kubernetes Service clusters, workloads, access, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Manage Azure PostgreSQL, ADLS Gen2 / hierarchical storage accounts, container apps, jobs, registries, and related services.
• Help evaluate and host emerging platform components such as vector databases, graph databases, and AI/data infrastructure tools.
• Implement secure-by-default cloud patterns, including RBAC, managed identities, private networking, secrets management, logging, and encryption.
• Partner with application, data, platform, and security teams to design scalable and maintainable infrastructure.
• Support Git-based release flows, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, environment promotion, and operational runbooks.
• Monitor reliability, performance, cost, and security posture; identify and resolve issues proactively.
• Document standards, deployment patterns, diagrams, troubleshooting steps, and support procedures.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

Containers

PostgreSQL

CI/CD

Cloud security

Scripting (PowerShell/Bash/Python)

IaC

Security by design

Tools

Bicep

Terraform

AKS

Docker

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Kiewit is seeking a hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to build, automate, and support Azure cloud environments for modern app, data, and AI workloads. You will focus on infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, secure cloud resource management, and modern release practices.

The role requires strong Azure, AKS, container, PostgreSQL, storage, CI/CD, and cloud security expertise, with a focus on reproducible automation at enterprise scale.