Senior Cloud Engineer

THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOININGA growing enterprise technology organization in the middle of a significant modernization of its infrastructure, cloud environment, and operating practices An infrastructure and cloud team completing a large-scale migration of hundreds of servers and SQL instances into Azure, and preparing to take full day-to-day ownership of the new environment A collaborative group working across cloud engineering, infrastructure, database administration, application teams, and an external managed services partner An organization investing heavily in Azure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and automation This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role focused on building, automating, and operating the organization's Azure environment LOCATIONFort Mill, SC, Charlotte metro area On-site environment Opportunity to work closely with infrastructure leadership and the broader technology team during a major period of transformation WHAT THEY OFFER YOUOwnership of a newly built Azure environment as it moves from migration into day-to-day operation, rather than maintaining a mature platform someone else designed A deep backlog of hands-on build work: Bicep, GitHub Actions pipelines, provisioning automation, monitoring, and security hardening The chance to shape how infrastructure code, pipelines, and environments are built going forward Exposure to emerging AI initiatives, including the Azure infrastructure that supports them Visibility with infrastructure leadership and room to grow into a lead role as the cloud practice expands Competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package WHY THIS ROLE IS IMPORTANTThe organization is closing out a major migration into Azure and will soon own the environment day to day. It needs a senior engineer who can run it and build on it There is more infrastructure work stacking up than the current team can absorb. This role adds senior, hands-on capacity, not another layer of design and oversight This person will extend the environment as code: building on existing Bicep modules, standing up GitHub Actions pipelines, and automating provisioning so environments can be deployed consistently and quickly Security, cost, and reliability run through this role, including identity and access, Azure Policy guardrails, secrets management, monitoring, and cost optimization You will work alongside infrastructure leadership, database and application teams, and an external managed services partner, and serve as a go-to Azure resource for the team The organization is looking for someone who can take a priority, determine the right approach, and deliver it without needing every detail spelled out THE BACKGROUND THAT FITS6+ years in infrastructure or cloud engineering, including 3+ years hands-on in Azure production environments Production experience writing and deploying Bicep or ARM templates; Terraform-first Azure engineers comfortable working in an existing Bicep codebase will also be considered Hands-on experience building CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps for infrastructure deployments Strong Azure IaaS background: VMs, VNets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, load balancing, DNS, VPN/ExpressRoute, and storage Working knowledge of Azure identity and security, including Entra ID, RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Vault, and Azure Policy Scripting in PowerShell and Azure CLI, with Git-based version control Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, or comparable monitoring tools Experience supporting production environments, including incident response and on-call Experience with on-premises to Azure migrations, Azure Landing Zones, or working alongside managed service providers is a strong plus Azure certifications such as AZ-104 or AZ-400 are a plus A builder's mindset: comfortable owning work end to end and moving quickly from priority to working solution #LI-HF1Reference: 70993