Job Title: Cloud Operations Engineer
Location: Charlotte, NC,
Duration: 6 Months + Extension
Bill Rate: $85/hour on C2c
Job Type: C2C/1099
Client: To Be Discussed Later
Work Authorization: US-Citizen, H-1B, OPT-EAD, GC-EAD
Job Description :
Monitoring & Operations
Production Health: Maintain production environment health by actively monitoring signals, acting as the primary line of defense for alerts, and escalating issues as appropriate.
Observability Tooling: Monitor alerts across critical services utilizing Azure Monitor, Log Analytics (KQL), Application Insights, Grafana, and Prometheus.
Cost Optimization: Track cloud spends, surface financial anomalies, and flag optimization opportunities to ensure budget alignment.
Middleware Support: Monitor and operate core middleware services (PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka) and assist with root cause analysis on production incidents.
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
IaC Execution: Execute and maintain Terraform scripts to provision, update, and manage cloud infrastructure.
Process Automation: Write and maintain robust shell scripts to automate routine, repetitive operational tasks and reduce manual toil.
Container Orchestration: Utilize Helm and ArgoCD to support application deployment and configuration within containerized environments.
Disaster Recovery
Runbook Development: Build, document, and maintain comprehensive disaster recovery (DR) runbooks for critical services to ensure fast, confident incident recovery.
Validation: Regularly validate recovery procedures to keep runbooks accurate, current, and reliable.
Security & Governance
Access Control: Apply least-privilege Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and work within established Azure Policy and compliance guardrails.
Secrets Management: Manage day-to-day secrets operations utilizing Key Vault and managed identities.
Resource Governance: Enforce and follow strict tagging and governance standards across cloud subscriptions.
Qualifications
Required Experience & Skills
Cloud Operations: Solid hands-on experience operating production infrastructure within an Azure environment.
Core Services: Working knowledge of core cloud services including networking, compute, storage, and resource governance.
Identity Management: Expert-level familiarity with identity and access management (Entra ID).
Foundational Skills: Solid Linux and networking fundamentals.
Infrastructure as Code: Practical experience provisioning and maintaining live infrastructure using Terraform.
Scripting: Strong scripting capabilities in Bash and Python for operational automation.
Monitoring Stack: Hands-on experience with telemetry and monitoring tools: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics / KQL, Application Insights, Cost Management, Grafana, and Prometheus.
Middleware: Experience operating and troubleshooting common middleware solutions (PostgreSQL, Redis, or Kafka).
Governance: Familiarity with RBAC, Key Vault, and operating within enterprise governance guardrails.
Preferred Qualifications
Relevant cloud certifications such as AZ-104 (Azure Administrator) or AZ-400 (DevOps Engineer).
Proven experience writing, maintaining, and testing disaster recovery runbooks.
Experience managing multi-subscription cloud environments.
Exposure to FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization strategies.
Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
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