Azure Cloud Operations Engineer - IaC & Migration Specialist

CRC Group; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

AD&D insurance

401(k) with company match

PTO

Paid holidays

Vacation

Sick days

New parent leave

Restricted stock units

Deferred compensation plan

Job summary

CRC Group in Alpharetta, GA is seeking an Azure Cloud Operations Engineer to design, implement, and maintain Azure infrastructure. This role requires Terraform, Azure DevOps, and SQL Server IaaS/PaaS experience to ensure secure, scalable cloud services.

You’ll collaborate across teams to migrate client data, optimize costs, and monitor environments, with after-hours support on a rotation. The position emphasizes reliability, security, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Proficiency with Azure infrastructure, services, and administration.
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform a plus but not a requirement).
• Experience with SQL Server IaaS and PaaS is a plus.
• Ability to manage cloud deployments securely and efficiently.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
• Demonstrated experience with cloud migration projects is also a plus.
• Team player but works independently to drive results and raise emergencies as they arise.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage cloud resources (e.g., virtual machines, storage, databases, recovery vaults, key vaults, and networks) using Microsoft Azure.
• Ensure the security, reliability, and performance of Azure-based infrastructure.
• Collaborate with development, operations, and cyber teams to support application hosting and integration.
• Assist with migrating client data and workloads securely to Azure, ensuring compliance and performance standards.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Azure environments, responding to incidents and identifying areas for improvement.
• Contribute to automation and orchestration efforts to streamline cloud operations.
• Experience with SQL Server IaaS and PaaS troubleshooting and SQL Server setup.
• Provide after-hours support via Pager Duty as needed within a rotation.
• Enroll VMs and SQL Databases into backup center and troubleshoot backup situations.
• Familiarity with Azure Site Recovery and automation with Disaster Recovery planning.
• Familiarity with Azure Cost Management and understanding of drilling down into costs and making cost saving cuts with SKU’s, disks, etc., as items are found.
• Troubleshooting with Windows Server administration and event logs.

Skills

Terraform

Azure

Azure DevOps

SQL Server IaaS

SQL Server PaaS

Cloud migrations

Tools

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Terraform Cloud/Infra

SQL Server Management Studio

Job description

CRC Group in Alpharetta, GA is seeking an Azure Cloud Operations Engineer to design, implement, and maintain Azure infrastructure. This role requires Terraform, Azure DevOps, and SQL Server IaaS/PaaS experience to ensure secure, scalable cloud services.

You’ll collaborate across teams to migrate client data, optimize costs, and monitor environments, with after-hours support on a rotation. The position emphasizes reliability, security, and continuous improvement.