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

Kiewit; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Kiewit is seeking a hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to build, automate, and support Azure environments for modern application, data, and AI workloads. The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, AKS, and secure cloud patterns to operate at enterprise scale.

The ideal candidate will have strong Azure, AKS, containers, PostgreSQL, and CI/CD experience, and will collaborate with multiple teams to ensure scalable, reliable infrastructure across projects.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, or systems roles.
• Hands‑on Azure experience in production or enterprise environments.
• Strong infrastructure as code experience; Bicep preferred, Terraform highly valued.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes; AKS preferred.
• Experience with containers, Docker, container registries, and deployment automation.
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and maintain Azure resources across managed resource groups.
• Develop reusable infrastructure as code using Bicep, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Support Azure Kubernetes Service clusters, workloads, access, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Manage Azure PostgreSQL, ADLS Gen2 / hierarchical storage accounts, container apps, jobs, registries, and related services.
• Help evaluate and host emerging platform components such as vector databases, graph databases, and AI/data infrastructure tools.
• Implement secure-by-default cloud patterns, including RBAC, managed identities, private networking, secrets management, logging, and encryption.
• Partner with application, data, platform, and security teams to design scalable and maintainable infrastructure.
• Support Git-based release flows, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, environment promotion, and operational runbooks.
• Monitor reliability, performance, cost, and security posture; identify and resolve issues proactively.

Skills

Cloud engineering

DevOps

IaC

Kubernetes

Scripting

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

Tools

AKS

Terraform

Bicep

Docker

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Job description

Kiewit is seeking a hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to build, automate, and support Azure environments for modern application, data, and AI workloads. The role emphasizes infrastructure as code, AKS, and secure cloud patterns to operate at enterprise scale.

The ideal candidate will have strong Azure, AKS, containers, PostgreSQL, and CI/CD experience, and will collaborate with multiple teams to ensure scalable, reliable infrastructure across projects.