Azure Cloud Operations Engineer

Coretek; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Coretek is seeking a highly skilled Azure Engineer to join our Managed Services team. The role focuses on operational support, optimization, automation, and modernization of customer Azure environments.

You will serve as a trusted technical advisor, ensuring secure, reliable, and cost-efficient Azure solutions while delivering an exceptional client experience. The ideal candidate will have deep Azure infrastructure expertise, strong troubleshooting abilities, and a passion for automation, cloud

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Azure engineering, cloud operations, or managed services experience.
• Experience supporting production Azure environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills.
• Experience with Azure security and governance.

Responsibilities

• Provide Level 3 support and engineering expertise for Azure-based environments.
• Troubleshoot complex Azure infrastructure, networking, identity, security, and performance issues.
• Participate in escalation rotations and major incident response activities.
• Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive actions.
• Deploy, configure, maintain, and optimize Azure resources (VMs, Storage, AKS, App Services, Azure SQL, backup/DR).
• Support hybrid cloud and hybrid identity environments.
• Manage subscriptions, landing zones, resource groups, and governance controls.
• Manage Azure networking: VNets, VPNs, ExpressRoute, NSGs, Firewall, Application Gateway, Load Balancers.
• Implement Zero Trust security, configure Azure Policy, RBAC, Conditional Access, Defender for Cloud.
• Build infrastructure as code with Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates; automate with PowerShell and Azure CLI.
• Configure Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerts, dashboards; develop runbooks.
• Serve as trusted advisor to customers; participate in technical reviews and strategic planning.
• Analyze Azure consumption and optimize spend; recommend right-sizing and reservations.

Skills

Azure engineering

Cloud operations

Automation

PowerShell automation

Azure Monitor

AKS

Azure networking

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Microsoft Entra ID

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure CLI

PowerShell

Job description

Coretek is seeking a highly skilled Azure Engineer to join our Managed Services team. The role focuses on operational support, optimization, automation, and modernization of customer Azure environments.

You will serve as a trusted technical advisor, ensuring secure, reliable, and cost-efficient Azure solutions while delivering an exceptional client experience. The ideal candidate will have deep Azure infrastructure expertise, strong troubleshooting abilities, and a passion for automation, cloud