Senior Azure IaC Engineer — Automation & Landing Zones

Cypress HCM; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Cypress HCM is seeking a Senior Azure Infrastructure Automation Engineer for a 6-month contract. This remote role focuses on transforming manual Azure setups into code-driven, scalable infrastructure with IaC practices.

The ideal candidate will own design, development, deployment, and troubleshooting of automated Azure infrastructure, including landing zones, modular Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. Strong collaboration with engineering and operations is essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience engineering and managing Azure infrastructure in enterprise-scale environments.
• Strong practical experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably using Terraform.
• Working knowledge of Azure Bicep or similar infrastructure definition and provisioning technologies.
• Experience building reusable infrastructure modules, templates, variable structures, and standardized deployment configurations.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain automated Azure infrastructure using modern Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Develop and manage reusable Terraform modules and/or Bicep templates to support consistent provisioning of Azure resources.
• Assess existing cloud environments and transition manually configured infrastructure into version-controlled, code-managed solutions.
• Contribute to standardized Azure landing zones and foundational cloud architecture.
• Establish and maintain Git-based development practices, including branching strategies, pull requests, peer reviews, and controlled change management.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure validation, testing, planning, and deployment.
• Implement infrastructure changes using structured release processes that minimize risk and disruption.
• Identify and resolve infrastructure configuration drift, undocumented resources, and legacy debt.
• Evaluate existing infrastructure and determine strategies for resource adoption, code refactoring, migration, or replacement.
• Integrate Azure security, identity and access management, networking, governance, and policy requirements into deployment workflows.
• Investigate deployment failures, configuration inconsistencies, and unexpected changes, implementing sustainable resolutions.
• Establish repeatable procedures for maintenance, upgrades, version management, and ongoing support.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to communicate design decisions and standards.

Skills

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Git workflows

Tools

Terraform

Azure Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Git

Job description

Cypress HCM is seeking a Senior Azure Infrastructure Automation Engineer for a 6-month contract. This remote role focuses on transforming manual Azure setups into code-driven, scalable infrastructure with IaC practices.

The ideal candidate will own design, development, deployment, and troubleshooting of automated Azure infrastructure, including landing zones, modular Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines. Strong collaboration with engineering and operations is essential.