Senior Azure Cloud Engineer — Remote

Bright Vision Technologies; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a skilled Azure Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale, secure cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure. You will own the end-to-end cloud engineering lifecycle, including architecture, infrastructure-as-code, automation, security hardening, and operations for production workloads.

The role emphasizes collaboration with development, security, and SRE teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and compliant solutions, leveraging Terraform, AKS, Azure

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/engineering or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of cloud engineering experience, with 3+ years in Azure production environments.
• Hands-on with Azure core services (compute, storage, networking, identity, PaaS).
• Proficient with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates for IaC.
• Experience operating AKS clusters at scale and CI/CD via Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, Python; strong automation focus.
• Deep knowledge of cloud security, identity, and compliance.
• Experience with monitoring/observability across distributed workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise-grade Azure architectures focusing on scalability and cost.
• Develop and maintain IaC with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Configure Azure landing zones, VNets, subnets, and security groups with least-privilege access.
• Manage identity, access governance, and compliance using Azure AD and policies.
• Operate AKS clusters including node pools, auto-scaling, and security integration.
• Deploy and optimize Azure data services (SQL, Cosmos DB, Synapse, Data Factory).
• Build CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for infra and apps.
• Establish observability with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.

Skills

Azure services

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

AKS

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Python

Cloud security

Observability

Monitoring

Cost optimization

DevOps practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

AKS

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Istio

Linkerd

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Azure Policy

Defender for Cloud

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a skilled Azure Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale, secure cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure. You will own the end-to-end cloud engineering lifecycle, including architecture, infrastructure-as-code, automation, security hardening, and operations for production workloads.

The role emphasizes collaboration with development, security, and SRE teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and compliant solutions, leveraging Terraform, AKS, Azure