Senior Azure Cloud Engineer - Remote, High-Impact Infra

Proxify; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-time payments

8-hour workdays

Flex days off

Remote opportunities

Personalized matching

Simple contracting process

Competitive pay

Job summary

Proxify is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer specializing in Microsoft Azure to design, automate, and maintain enterprise cloud infrastructure. You will own Azure landing zones, AKS clusters, and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring high reliability, cost efficiency, and zero-trust security compliance.

You will leverage Terraform or Bicep for automation, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for pipelines, and Entra ID/Key Vault for identity and secret management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud engineering experience managing enterprise Microsoft Azure environments.
• Advanced mastery of Terraform or Bicep for provision automation and multi-subscription state management.
• Proven track record building, securing, and scaling AKS clusters and deploying apps with Helm.
• Deep proficiency in automated build and deployment pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Solid understanding of zero-trust security, RBAC, Entra ID, and Azure Policy.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting via Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, or Datadog/Dynatrace.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy enterprise-grade Azure infrastructure using IaC and modular libraries.
• Manage AKS clusters, autoscaling, ingress, and service mesh policies.
• Design and secure CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments with automated security checks.
• Enforce guardrails with Azure Policy and audit IAM roles via Entra ID.
• Monitor performance, respond to incidents, and optimize cloud resource usage for cost efficiency.

Skills

Azure expertise

Terraform

AKS

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud security

Monitoring & observability

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

AKS

Helm

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Key Vault

Entra ID

Job description

Proxify is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer specializing in Microsoft Azure to design, automate, and maintain enterprise cloud infrastructure. You will own Azure landing zones, AKS clusters, and CI/CD pipelines while ensuring high reliability, cost efficiency, and zero-trust security compliance.

You will leverage Terraform or Bicep for automation, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for pipelines, and Entra ID/Key Vault for identity and secret management.