Cloud Operations Engineer (Remote)

inspiracareers; Oak Brook (IL); Remote; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Inspira is seeking a Cloud Operations Administrator to support and administer our Azure-based cloud infrastructure in production. You will monitor health, investigate alerts, and troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, networking, identity, and applications.

The role covers IaC deployments with Terraform/Ansible/Bicep, automation, on-call rotations, disaster recovery activities, and collaboration with engineering, security, and client services to maintain platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 1–3 years of relevant Azure administration experience.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code deployments (Terraform/Ansible/Bicep).
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools (Azure Monitor/Datadog/Splunk/Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise Azure infrastructure and cloud services.
• Monitor platform health and investigate alerts, incidents, and service degradation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across infrastructure, networking, identity, and application layers.
• Support Infrastructure as Code deployments and operational automation initiatives.
• Maintain Active Directory and Entra ID environments.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production incident response.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks and technical documentation.
• Partner with Cloud Engineering, Development, Security, and Client Service teams to support platform operations.

Skills

Azure administration

Incident response

On-call rotations

IaC practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Bicep/ARM

PowerShell

Bash

Python

CI/CD pipelines

Azure Monitor

Datadog

Kubernetes

AKS

AVD

Splunk

Grafana

Job description

The Cloud Operations Administrator (COA) is responsible for supporting and administering Inspira's Azure-based cloud infrastructure and related operational platforms. This role focuses heavily on Azure operations, monitoring, automation, production incident troubleshooting, systems administration, and infrastructure reliability. The ideal candidate combines strong operational discipline with hands-on experience supporting cloud infrastructure in production environments.

Core Technical Areas

Azure Infrastructure & Operations

• Azure Virtual Machines
• Azure Networking (VNets, NSGs, Route Tables, Private Endpoints, VPN Gateways)
• Microsoft Entra ID / Active Directory
• Azure Backup & Site Recovery
• Microsoft Azure operational services and tooling

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Terraform
• Ansible
• Bicep / ARM
• CI/CD pipelines
• PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages

Monitoring & Observability

• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics
• Datadog
• Monitoring platforms, alerting, dashboards, and operational response
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Systems Administration

• Windows Server
• Linux Administration
• Active Directory / Entra ID
• VMware
• Identity and Access Management

Modern Infrastructure

• AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)
• Kubernetes
• Containerized workloads
• Cloud-native operational support

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)

• Host Pools
• FSLogix
• Session Host Administration
• AVD troubleshooting and performance management

Primary Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise Azure infrastructure and cloud services.
• Monitor platform health and proactively investigate alerts, incidents, and service degradation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across infrastructure, networking, identity, and application layers.
• Support Infrastructure as Code deployments and operational automation initiatives.
• Maintain Active Directory and Entra ID environments.
• Support disaster recovery, backup validation, and business continuity efforts.
• Participate in on-call rotations and production incident response.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks and technical documentation.
• Partner with Cloud Engineering, Development, Security, and Client Service teams to support platform operations.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Scienceor equivalentexperience

Certification:

• Certifications preferred: AZ-900

Skills & Abilities:

• 1-3 Years of Relevant Experience
• Hands-on Azure administration in production environments.
• Experience supporting Infrastructure as Code deployments.
• Experience using Azure Monitor, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, or similar monitoring platforms.
• Experience supporting AKS/Kubernetes environments.
• Experience administering Azure Virtual Desktop.
• Experience troubleshooting production incidents and performing root cause analysis.
• Strong systems administration foundation across Windows, Linux, VMware, Active Directory, and Entra ID.