Azure Cloud Ops Engineer — Automation & FinOps

Coretek Services

United States

On-site

USD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Coretek Services is seeking a highly skilled Azure Engineer to join our Managed Services team. This role focuses on operating, optimizing, automating, and modernizing customer Azure environments, acting as a trusted advisor to ensure secure, reliable, and cost-effective solutions while delivering exceptional client experiences.

The ideal candidate has deep Azure infrastructure expertise, strong troubleshooting skills, and a passion for automation and cloud operations.

Qualifications

5+ years of Azure engineering, cloud operations, or managed services experience.
3+ years supporting production Azure environments.
Experience supporting multiple client environments simultaneously.
Experience performing advanced troubleshooting and incident management.

Responsibilities

Provide Level 3 support and engineering expertise for Azure-based environments.
Troubleshoot and resolve 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.
Ensure adherence to established service levels and operational standards.
Deploy, configure, maintain, and optimize Azure resources including VMs, storage, AKS, App Services, Azure SQL, and DR solutions.
Support hybrid cloud and hybrid identity environments.
Manage Azure subscriptions, landing zones, resource groups, and governance controls.
Manage Azure networking solutions including VNets, VPNs, ExpressRoute, NSGs, Firewall, Application Gateway, Load Balancers.
Implement and maintain Zero Trust security principles.
Configure and support Azure Policy, RBAC, Conditional Access, and Defender for Cloud.
Collaborate with security teams to remediate risks and vulnerabilities.
Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates.
Develop automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Azure Automation, and Azure Functions.
Identify opportunities to increase operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
Configure and maintain Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerts, and dashboards.
Develop operational runbooks and response procedures.
Continuously improve system reliability, availability, and performance.
Serve as a trusted advisor to assigned customers.
Participate in technical reviews and strategic planning sessions.
Present recommendations related to optimization, modernization, governance, and cloud best practices.
Support onboarding of new managed services clients.
Contribute to knowledge transfer, documentation, and service improvement initiatives.
Analyze Azure consumption and spending trends.
Identify opportunities to reduce cloud spend and improve efficiency.
Recommend right-sizing, reservations, autoscaling, and governance improvements.