Cloud Operations Engineer - Remote / Telecommute

Cynet Systems Inc; Cary (NC); Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the tech sector is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to enhance their infrastructure automation and CI/CD processes. The role involves maintaining Terraform templates, developing patch management scripts, and ensuring compliance with security standards. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in DevOps practices and be comfortable collaborating with development and security teams.

Qualifications

• Strong background in Terraform, version control, and pipeline tooling.
• Familiar with modern DevOps practices.
• Comfortable working with development and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve Terraform-based templates for infrastructure deployments.
• Develop and maintain patch scripts and pipelines.
• Implement tooling for consistent environments and governance.

Skills

Terraform

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub

CI/CD

Job description

Job Description:

Design, IaC and Automation:

• Maintain and improve Terraform‐based templates for consistent, repeatable infrastructure deployments.
• Leverage best practices for version control (Git branching strategies) and code reviews to minimize drift between dev, test, and prod environments.

Patch and Pipeline Management:

• Develop and maintain patch scripts and pipelines (Azure Update Manager or similar) to automate OS or platform patching.
• Coordinate with L2/L3 for safe rollouts of patches and to minimize downtime.

Certificate and Secrets Management:

• Create, rotate, and securely store certificates, secrets, and SSH keys using Azure Key Vault or appropriate vaulting solutions.
• Ensure compliance with organizational policies on encryption and key rotation intervals.
• CI/CD Enhancements.
• Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc) for new or updated Azure resources.
• Embed security scanning, linting, and compliance checks at various stages of the pipeline.

Environment Consistency and Governance:

• Implement tooling to maintain consistent dev/test/prod environments, ensuring the IaC definitions match reality (no “drift”).
• Work with L3 to enforce governance policies (Azure Policy, RBAC, tagging standards) in all deployed environments.
• Security and Compliance in DevOps.
• Integrate security scanning tools into pipelines for early detection of vulnerabilities.
• Work closely with security teams to address compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST, or internal corporate standards).

Skill Set:

• Strong background in Terraform, version control (Git), and pipeline tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub).
• Familiar with modern DevOps practices (GitOps, continuous testing).
• Comfortable working closely with development teams, L3, and security teams to implement infrastructure changes effectively and securely.
• Typically, a smaller team of Cloud Engineers can support multiple projects if they have well‐defined pipelines and documentation.