Remote Azure Cloud Engineer: AKS & Cost Optimization

FinOps Weekly; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Direct W2 employment

SOW engagement

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a skilled Azure Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale Azure platforms. You will own the end-to-end cloud engineering lifecycle, including architecture, IaC, automation, security hardening, cost optimization, observability, and operational excellence for production workloads.

You will collaborate with application development, security, and SRE teams to deliver cloud-native solutions that meet scalability, reliability, and regulatory

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Five+ years of cloud engineering experience, with at least three years on Microsoft Azure in production.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates for IaC.
• Solid experience designing and operating AKS clusters at scale.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python) for automation.
• Deep understanding of cloud security, identity management, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise-grade Azure cloud architectures with a focus on scalability, security and cost efficiency.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates with version control and peer review.
• Configure landing zones, VNets, subnets, and network security groups for secure segmentation.
• Implement identity, access management and governance using Azure AD and RBAC.
• Architect and operate AKS clusters with node pools, auto-scaling and integration with registries.
• Build and run CI/CD pipelines for infra and apps using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

AKS

CI/CD

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Security

DevOps

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

ARM templates

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a skilled Azure Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale Azure platforms. You will own the end-to-end cloud engineering lifecycle, including architecture, IaC, automation, security hardening, cost optimization, observability, and operational excellence for production workloads.

You will collaborate with application development, security, and SRE teams to deliver cloud-native solutions that meet scalability, reliability, and regulatory