Sr. Cloud Engineer (HYBRID)

Sr. Cloud Engineer
Location: Dallas area (Hybrid)
Compensation: up to $150K


Company Summary
Our client is a digital engineering consultancy specializing in cloud transformation, microservices, and digital platforms. They partner with global enterprises across industries such as financial services, retail, and healthcare to deliver scalable, secure, and modern technology solutions. Their culture emphasizes innovation, agility, and collaboration.


Position Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Engineer with deep expertise in Azure and observability of distributed microservices. This role will design, implement, and lead end-to-end monitoring solutions, integrating tools like Splunk, Istio, and Terraform to ensure performance, scalability, and security of mission-critical applications. The ideal candidate will be a senior-level engineer with strong DevOps, automation, and incident management experience, comfortable working in hybrid environments and client-facing scenarios.


Key Responsibilities
• Design, implement, and maintain monitoring solutions for distributed microservices running on AKS.
• Build observability frameworks leveraging Splunk, Istio telemetry, and Azure services.
• Configure and monitor Azure-native services including APIM, Cosmos DB, SQL Server, and networking.
• Implement Twistlock/Prisma Cloud security monitoring.
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform; embed observability into deployments.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps with integrated monitoring hooks.
• Conduct resilience testing with Azure Chaos Studio; incorporate results into system improvements.
• Support automated API/performance testing using Karate Labs.
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to define and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs.
• Lead incident response, RCA, and continuous improvement initiatives.


Required Qualifications
• 12+ years of IT experience (mandatory).
• 5+ years in Cloud/DevOps/SRE roles.
• 3+ years hands-on Splunk in microservices environments.
• Strong Azure expertise (AKS, Cosmos DB, SQL Server, APIM, networking).
• Experience with Istio, Terraform, Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Strong troubleshooting and collaboration abilities.


Preferred Qualifications
• zure certifications (AZ-400, AZ-104, AZ-305).
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry.
• Background in DevSecOps practices and secure CI/CD pipelines.