Azure Engineer

Epitec; Omaha (NE); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Epitec is seeking an Azure Engineer to design, implement, and operate Azure infrastructure in production. You will help automate provisioning, deployments, observability, incident response, and compliance across teams.

The role emphasizes IaC, governance, and secure, scalable platforms with 24x7 coverage via a rotation. Remote options are available for this contract position.

Qualifications

• 5 to 7 years of hands‑on experience supporting Azure‑based infrastructure and services in production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Azure landing zones and platform services (e.g., VNet, Private Endpoints, Key Vault, Azure Firewall/NSGs, Application Gateway/WAF).

Skills

Azure services

AKS

App Services

Functions

APIM

Azure SQL/MI

Cosmos DB

VNet/Peering

Private Link

Application Gateway/WAF

Front Door

Terraform

Bicep

GitHub

Azure DevOps

SRE

SLI/SLO

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Job description

Job Title: Azure Engineer

Location: Omaha or Remote

Duration: 8 month

Contract/Contract to hire: contract to hire

Job Description:

Our client is seeking an Azure Engineer with ITOps expertise to work on a team focused on keeping the systems secure, stable, and available. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in production support, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, and a genuine passion for ensuring critical systems operate smoothly and efficiently. You’ll collaborate closely with product, security, and operations teams to automate everything—provisioning, deployments, observability, incident response, and compliance—while supporting a rotational shift model to ensure 24x7 coverage.

Role Description

• Design, build, and maintain Azure landing zones and platform services (e.g., VNet, Private Endpoints, Key Vault, Azure Firewall/NSGs, Application Gateway/WAF)
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and/or Bicep; enforce GitOps workflows (branching, PRs, policy checks)
• Create reusable modules, pipelines, and golden patterns for app teams; champion automation-first approaches
• Define and measure SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability roadmaps for critical services
• Implement and tune observability (logs, metrics, traces) using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Prometheus/Grafana where applicable
• Conduct capacity planning, resiliency testing (chaos, failover, DR), and performance tuning across services
• Build secure, robust CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Pipelines) with automated testing, scans, and approvals
• Standardize deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, rolling) for containerized and PaaS workloads
• Implement guardrails using Azure Policy, RBAC, PIM, and Blueprints (or equivalent) to enforce least privilege and compliance (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA as relevant)
• Manage secrets and certificates (Key Vault) and integrate security testing (SAST/DAST/Container scanning) into pipelines
• Support vulnerability remediation and patching SLAs
• Own incident response, including rotational shifts and on-call; lead triage, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-incident reviews
• Optimize cost (FinOps), tagging standards, budgets, and proactive spending alerts
• Maintain runbooks, knowledge base articles, and automation for routine operations
• Act as a technical mentor; review designs/PRs; contribute to architecture decisions
• Partner with app teams to onboard workloads, define nonfunctional requirements, and drive platform adoption

Your Skills and Experience

• 5 to 7 years of hands‑on experience supporting Azure-based infrastructure and services in production
• Expertise in several of: AKS, App Services, Functions, APIM, Azure SQL/MI, Cosmos DB, Storage, Event Hub/Service Bus, Redis, VNet/Peering, Private Link, Application Gateway/WAF, Front Door
• Strong IaC with Terraform (preferred) and/or Bicep; Git‑based workflows; GitHub or Azure DevOps
• Proven SRE background: SLI/SLO design, error budgets, incident management, RCA, capacity and performance engineering
• CI/CD design and operations (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Pipelines); artifact/versioning strategies; release governance
• Observability with Azure: Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and alerting/automations (Action Groups, Logic Apps, Functions)
• Solid networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, routing, firewalls, load balancing), identity (AAD/Entra ID), and secrets management (Key Vault)
• Scripting proficiency in PowerShell and/or Python; Linux fundamentals

• Strong understanding of Azure security best practices, including Role‑Based Access Control (RBAC), Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Azure Policy, and Managed Identities for secure access management and governance

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