Senior Azure Engineer

Role: Azure Engineer


Location: Omaha, NE (Onsite)


Duration: 12+ Months

About the Role


We are looking for a Senior Azure Engineer with strong expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps practices to design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native platforms. This role focuses on improving reliability, performance, security, cost efficiency, and developer productivity for mission-critical systems.


You will partner with product, security, and engineering teams to deliver highly automated, resilient, and compliant cloud solutions while participating in a 24x7 on-call rotation.


Key Responsibilities


Cloud Platform & Architecture

• Design, implement, and manage Azure landing zones and core platform services, including virtual networks, private endpoints, firewalls, and application gateways.
• Build scalable, secure, and high-availability cloud architectures using Azure-native services.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (preferred) and/or Bicep.
• Promote GitOps practices including version control, pull requests, and automated policy enforcement.
• Create reusable modules, templates, and standardized deployment patterns for engineering teams.

Reliability Engineering

• Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical services.
• Lead reliability improvements, performance tuning, and capacity planning initiatives.
• Conduct resiliency testing including failover, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering.

Observability & Monitoring

• Design and implement observability solutions using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
• Integrate distributed tracing and metrics visualization using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Configure alerting and automated response mechanisms.

CI/CD & Release Engineering

• Build and manage secure CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps.
• Implement automated testing, security scanning, and approval workflows.
• Standardize deployment strategies, including blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments.

Container & Platform Engineering

• Manage and optimize container platforms, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Configure node pools, autoscaling, networking, ingress, and security policies.
• Manage container registries (ACR) and deployment pipelines.

Security & Compliance

• Implement security best practices using Azure Policy, RBAC, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM).
• Manage secrets and certificates via Azure Key Vault.
• Integrate SAST, DAST, and container scanning into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support compliance initiatives aligned with industry standards (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Incident Management & Operations

• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response efforts.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and drive continuous improvement through post-incident reviews.
• Develop runbooks and automation for operational processes.

Cost Optimization (FinOps)

• Implement cost governance strategies including tagging, budgeting, and alerts.
• Continuously optimize cloud spend and resource usage.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Mentor engineers and review technical designs and code contributions.
• Partner with application teams to onboard workloads and define non-functional requirements.
• Drive adoption of best practices and platform standards.

Qualifications


Required Experience

• 7+ years of hands-on experience with Azure cloud infrastructure in production environments.
• Strong expertise in SRE principles including reliability engineering, incident management, and performance optimization.
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipeline design and implementation.

Technical Skills

• Deep experience with Azure services such as:
• AKS, App Services, Functions, API Management
• Azure SQL/Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Storage
• Event Hub, Service Bus, Redis
• Networking (VNet, Peering, Private Link, Application Gateway, Front Door)
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform (preferred) or Bicep.
• Proficiency in Git-based workflows (GitHub or Azure DevOps).

Observability & Monitoring

• Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and alerting systems.

Networking & Security

• Solid understanding of networking concepts (DNS, TLS, routing, load balancing).
• Experience with identity and access management (Azure AD / Entra ID).
• Familiarity with RBAC, Azure Policy, and secure cloud design principles.

Programming & Systems

• Scripting skills in PowerShell and/or Python.
• Strong Linux system fundamentals.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana.
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks and cloud governance models.
• Exposure to large-scale distributed systems and platform engineering