Senior Azure Cloud Architect and Engineer

Overview

On Site
Hybrid
USD 80.00 per hour
Full Time

Skills

Financial Services
Preventive Maintenance
Performance Management
Project Management
Amazon Web Services
Java
ProVision
Management
SQL Azure
Application Development
FOCUS
Microsoft
SAN
PaaS
Database
Replication
Failover
Messaging
Soft Skills
Agile
Scrum
PostgreSQL
Cosmos-Db
Functional Requirements
Backup Administration
Disaster Recovery
Terraform
Provisioning
Continuous Integration
Continuous Delivery
GitHub
Microservices
Data Security
Network Security
Microsoft Azure
Mentorship
Cloud Computing
Collaboration
DevOps
React.js
Spring Framework
Apache Kafka
Industrial Relations
Law
LOS
Recruiting
Immigration

Job Details

Date Posted: 07/09/2025

Hiring Organization: Rose International

Position Number: 485283

Industry: Financial Services

Job Title: Senior Azure Cloud Architect and Engineer

Job Location: Chicago, IL, USA, 60604

Work Model: Hybrid

Work Model Details: Onsite 3 Times a Week is mandatory

Shift: 8 am to 5pm CST

Employment Type: Temporary

FT/PT: Full-Time

Estimated Duration (In months): 10

Min Hourly Rate($): 80.00

Max Hourly Rate($): 100.00

Must Have Skills/Attributes: AWS, Azure, DevOps, GitHub, IAM, Java

Experience Desired: hands-on experience designing and deploying solutions on Micros (10 yrs); Terraform to provision and manage Azure infrastructure as code (IaC) (5 yrs); CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for Azure-based applications (5 yrs); experience configuring backups, replication, or failover for Azure database (5 yrs); Implement SRE principles: monitoring (5 yrs)

Required Minimum Education: Bachelor's Degree

Job Description
Required Experience and Education:
10+ years in application development (end-to-end solutions) and 5+ years as a Cloud Engineer (Azure focus).
Bachelors Degree

Preferred Certifications:
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate.
HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.

Required Technical Skills:
Azure Services: Compute, storage, networking, PaaS offerings.
Database Ops: Backups, replication, failover (Azure Postgres/Cosmos DB).
Messaging: Kafka, Azure Service BEvent Hub.

Required Soft Skills:
Self-starter, agile (SCRUM), ability to navigate ambiguity.

Core Responsibilities
Design scalable, cost-effective Azure solutions using native services (e.g., Azure Postgres, Cosmos DB, Service Bus).
Address non-functional requirements: availability, backups, disaster recovery.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform for provisioning.
CI/CD Pipelines: GitHub Actions for deployments (Microservices/Spring Boot apps).
Remediate security findings (IAM, data protection, network security).
Implement SRE principles: monitoring (Azure native tools), logging, and alerting.
Mentor junior engineers on cloud best practices.
Collaborate with DevOps/application teams (ReactJS, Spring Boot, Kafka).

Benefits:
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