Cloud Engineer

Job summary

The Cloud Engineer role focuses on enhancing platform reliability and developer enablement within Azure, utilizing an SRE mindset. Key responsibilities include managing Azure infrastructure, implementing observability with Datadog, and automating operations through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep, while also improving endpoint management with Intune and M365 foundations.

Benefits

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience with one of the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP), with hands-on experience in Azure being preferred
• Previous experience in backend development is highly valued
• Fluent English (C1 or above)
• Ownership and autonomy: operate independently and drive ambiguity through to shipped outcomes

Responsibilities

• Run and evolve the Cloud Platform (Azure) with an SRE mindset
• Own day-to-day operations
• Drive improvements of Azure infrastructure (availability, performance, scalability, cost)
• Define and implement reliability practices: monitoring standards, alerting strategy, incident response, postmortems, runbooks
• Improve resiliency: backups/restore strategy, DR scenarios (RPO/RTO), regular testing of recovery procedures
• Standardize cloud governance: subscriptions, RBAC, tagging, policies, resource conventions, access reviews
• Own Datadog configuration and coverage: dashboards, logs, traces, monitors, alert tuning and noise reduction
• Ensure meaningful service-level visibility (SLO-style indicators when relevant) and actionable alerts
• Partner with dev teams to improve instrumentation and operational readiness
• Be the infra point of contact for the dev team on dev topics: pipelines, release processes, environments, access
• Maintain and improve Azure DevOps pipelines (templates, reusable tasks, approvals, gated deployments, security of service connections)
• Build and maintain reliable test/staging environments (repeatable provisioning, environment parity, automated teardown where possible)
• Improve developer experience: self-service patterns, documentation, 'golden paths' for new services or apps
• Own and expand IaC (Bicep): modular patterns, code reviews, environment consistency
• Automate recurring operations (provisioning, standard changes, patching checks, compliance reporting)
• Reduce manual and tribal-knowledge ops via standardized workflows and documentation
• Improve and maintain endpoint management at scale (Intune policies, compliance, app deployment, Autopilot, update rings)
• Strengthen identity/device security posture (Conditional Access alignment, MFA, device compliance-driven access)
• Build automation/self-service to reduce L1/L2 load (packaging, scripted remediations, onboarding/offboarding flows)
• Partner with IT support to improve processes and reduce ticket volume (root-cause fixes, tooling, reporting)

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