Azure Operations Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client that is seeking an Azure Operations Engineer in Charlotte, NC.

Responsibilities:
Monitoring & Operations:
* Keep production healthy by watching the signals and acting on them; You'll be the first set of eyes on alerts and the person flagging when costs drift
* Monitor alerts across critical services using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics (KQL), Application Insights, Grafana, and Prometheus, and respond or escalate as appropriate
* Track cloud costs, surface anomalies, and flag optimization opportunities to the team
* Monitor and operate middleware services (PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka); Assist with root cause analysis on production issues

Infrastructure as Code & Automation:
* Turn manual, repetitive operations into reliable, repeatable automation
* Execute and maintain Terraform to provision and update Azure infrastructure
* Write and maintain shell scripts that automate routine operational tasks
* Use Helm and ArgoCD to support application deployment and configuration

Disaster Recovery:
* Make sure the team can recover quickly and confidently when incidents happen
* Build, document, and maintain disaster recovery runbooks for critical services
* Validate recovery procedures regularly and keep runbooks accurate and current

Security & Governance:
* Operate within established guardrails and help keep the estate clean and compliant
* Apply least-privilege RBAC and work within existing Azure Policy and compliance guardrails
* Handle day-to-day secrets operations using Key Vault and managed identities
* Follow tagging and governance standards across subscriptions

REQUIREMENTS:
* Solid hands-on experience operating production cloud infrastructure on Azure
* Practical Terraform experience provisioning and maintaining infrastructure
* Experience with monitoring tooling: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics/KQL
* Experience operating common middleware (PostgreSQL, Redis, or Kafka)
* Working knowledge of Azure core services: networking, compute, storage, and resource governance
* Expert with Azure identity (Entra ID)
* Familiarity with RBAC, Key Vault, and operating within governance guardrails
* Solid Linux and networking fundamentals
* Strong scripting in Bash and Python
* Application Insights, Cost Management, Grafana, and Prometheus

Preferred Qualifications:
* Azure certifications such as AZ-104 or AZ-400
* Experience writing or maintaining disaster recovery runbooks
* Experience with multi-subscription environments
* FinOps/cost optimization exposure

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

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