Lead Cloud Engineer

What You'll Do

A successful Lead Cloud Engineer will lead the design, automation, deployment, and operational support of cloud services, Azure platforms, and on-premises datacenter environments. This role will partner with application, infrastructure, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable, secure, scalable, and highly automated cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead cloud engineering activities for Azure platforms and hybrid environments, including infrastructure provisioning, deployment automation, platform reliability, and operational readiness.

• Manage and support Azure services such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps (ACA), Azure Firewall, Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, Azure App Service, Azure Networking, Key Vault, Monitor, and related platform services.

• Manage and support on-premises datacenter environments and hybrid infrastructure platforms, including Rancher, Linux-based systems, virtualization or container platforms, networking dependencies, and integration with Azure cloud environments.

• Build, maintain, and improve Infrastructure as Code using Bicep and Terraform, with focus on reusable modules, standards, governance, and secure deployment practices.

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, and GitHub Actions for application and infrastructure deployments.

• Drive automation for environment provisioning, configuration management, release management, monitoring, and operational support tasks.

• Partner with application teams to onboard workloads, troubleshoot deployment issues, improve release quality, and standardize cloud and DevOps practices.

• Collaborate with security and infrastructure teams to implement secure networking, access controls, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and compliance requirements.

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, documentation, and best-practice guidance to cloud, DevOps, infrastructure, and cross-functional teams.

• Participate in incident resolution, root cause analysis, platform improvements, and continuous improvement initiatives for reliability and operational efficiency.

What You Will Need to be Successful:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• 8+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, Datacenter Operations, or related technology roles.

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services, Azure networking, container platforms, and production operations.

• Experience with AKS, Azure Container Apps, Azure Firewall, Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, App Service, and related Azure platform components.