Lead Cloud Engineer; Azure DevOps Terraform and Kubernetes – W2

Role:
Lead Cloud Engineer (Azure Dev Ops) with Terraform and Kubernetes

Location:

San Jose, CA (Hybrid Onsite) – Minimum of 2 days a week at the office, with flexibility to come more days if events or workload require it Job Type: W2 Contract Mandatory Skills

Lead Experience, Terraform Experience writing own templates, Kubernetes,IaaS, PaaS

• A Cloud Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring efficient development and operations by balancing service reliability with delivery speed.
• They leverage the Microsoft Azure platform to design and implement software delivery pipelines, deploy and monitor services, and manage incidents effectively – always learning from them to improve system resilience and performance.
• This role is part of the Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE).

• Develop solutions using modern programming (scripting) language for automation of build tasks (Power Shell, arm/bicep, YAML, terraform and/or C# would be a plus)
• Build and deploy resources using Infrastructure-as-Code
• Develop solutions using Azure Dev Ops
• Operations task, using cloud native tools, like Log Analytics, Azure Monitor and Azure Security Center or other monitoring tooling
• Deliver/update documentation (e.g. product descriptions, operational tasks) on CCoE wiki
• Be part of a multidisciplinary Dev Ops team which takes ownership of both new development and operational activities.
• Implement tasks related to network platform operations

• Configuring and using IaaS (like Virtual Machines)
• Configuring and using PaaS (like Web App, Database services, Kubernetes, Data Lake, Databricks etc.).
• Networking principles and protocols such as IP subnetting, Network Security Groups, routing, Azure Firewall, Express Route, load balancer, DNS, etc.
• Engineering and coding skills applied in an agile way
• Working with Azure Dev Ops for automated deployments.
• Always have costs and security in mind when creating new products or solutions.
• Understand the concepts of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to maximize automation, reduce waste, increase scale and apply systemic thinking
• Working with Azure cloud native tooling