Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)

GPRS; Kentucky; On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company matching

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Leadership development training

Job summary

A technology services company is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead the design and evolution of its Azure-based infrastructure and SaaS platform. This hands-on role focuses on Cloud Architecture, CI/CD, and Kubernetes operations, requiring 5-8 years of related experience. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building reliable Azure infrastructure, deploying applications, and ensuring system reliability. Competitive benefits include full medical, dental, and vision insurance with immediate coverage, and a 401(k) plan with company matching.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong Azure experience.
• Experience supporting production systems and troubleshooting issues.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and implementation process for Azure Architecture.
• Collaborate with engineering teams for scalable infrastructure.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Deploy and support applications in AKS.
• Implement and manage infrastructure using Terraform.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Kubernetes

Database technologies

Cloud networking

Scripting (PowerShell, Bash, or Python)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field

Tools

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Log Analytics

Job description

Job Summary

The Senior Cloud Engineer will engineer and help evolve our Azure-based infrastructure and SaaS platform. This is a hands‑on role focused on Cloud Architecture, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes operations, and system reliability, with direct contribution to platform improvements and standardization.

Job Goals

• Build and operate reliable Azure infrastructure
• Design and support scalable, secure, and highly available cloud environments.
• Automate and standardize cloud delivery
• Improve CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and Kubernetes operations for consistency and speed.
• Increase reliability, visibility, and efficiency
• Strengthen observability, incident response, and cloud cost optimization.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and implementation process for Azure Architecture, ensuring alignment with business goals and compliance with security standards.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement highly available, scalable and fault‑tolerant infrastructure.
• Provide infrastructure and platform guidance, establishing standards, and making technical decisions.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Deploy and support applications in AKS (multi‑environment).
• Implement and manage infrastructure using Terraform.
• Monitor systems using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics.
• Troubleshoot production issues and performance problems.
• Contribute to observability and reliability improvements.
• Apply security best practices across infrastructure and deployments.
• Collaborate with teams to improve deployment workflows and automation.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure costs.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in Cloud Architecture, DevOps, and Infrastructure Engineering.
• Database technologies experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Strong Azure experience.
• Hands‑on experience with:
  • CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions).
  • Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
  • Kubernetes
  • Cloud networking
• Experience with SRE practices (SLOs, SLIs, reliability, incident response).
• Experience supporting production systems and troubleshooting issues.
• Familiarity with other Azure services such as Front Door, Application Gateway, VMs, Entra ID, Key Vault.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools.
• Scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash, or Python).

Benefits

We offer full medical, dental, and vision insurance with day‑one coverage, 401(k) with company matching beginning on day one, life, short‑term, and long‑term disability at no cost to our employees, paid holidays, paid time off, leadership development training programs, and additional benefits to support our strong commitment to the development of each team member.

GPRS is an Equal Opportunity employer.