Senior Azure Cloud Engineer: AKS, CI/CD & Zero-Trust Infra

Proxify AB; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Proxify AB is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer focused on Microsoft Azure to design, automate, and maintain enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure.

You will own Azure landing zones, AKS, and CI/CD automation, building secure, cost-efficient, zero-trust deployments while collaborating across teams.

Required comfort with Terraform/Bicep, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor and Application Insights.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience with Azure.
• In-depth experience automating infrastructure with Terraform or Bicep.
• Proven ability to design, secure, and scale AKS clusters.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Knowledge of zero-trust security, Entra ID, Key Vault and RBAC.
• Proficiency in monitoring with Azure Monitor, Application Insights and logs.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy enterprise-grade Azure infrastructure with IaC and modular libraries.
• Provision and optimize AKS clusters, including autoscaling and ingress routing.
• Design and secure automated CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments.
• Enforce policy guardrails, audit IAM roles, rotate secrets, and mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Monitor systems, investigate incidents, perform RCA, and optimize costs.

Skills

Cloud engineering

Azure

CI/CD

Security governance

Monitoring & observability

FinOps/cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

AKS

Helm

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Application Insights

Key Vault

Entra ID

RBAC

Datadog

Dynatrace

Azure Arc

Job description

Proxify AB is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer focused on Microsoft Azure to design, automate, and maintain enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure.

You will own Azure landing zones, AKS, and CI/CD automation, building secure, cost-efficient, zero-trust deployments while collaborating across teams.

Required comfort with Terraform/Bicep, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and monitoring tools such as Azure Monitor and Application Insights.