Lead Azure Cloud Engineer - OpenShift Red Hat Experience

12 Minutes ago • All levels

Devops

Job Description

As a Lead Azure Cloud Engineer, you will guide and advise on network and systems infrastructure initiatives, contributing to planning and implementing new releases and strategic development. You will translate technical concepts for non-technical audiences, evaluate and recommend management tools, and define user training. The role involves contributing to project stages, evaluating architecture, implementing projects, and providing post-implementation support. You will also participate in creating and improving governance strategies, security posture, cost optimization, and adopting new technologies like Containers/OpenShift/Observability/APM.

Good To Have:

Optionally proficient in Python for automation.
Familiarity with compliance frameworks (CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2).

Must Have:

Lead and advise on site, regional, and cross-organizational network and systems-related infrastructure initiatives.
Contribute to planning and implementing new releases, updates, or corrections to hardware, software, applications, or connectivity.
Participate in strategic planning and development for future design, performance, and capacity management.
Deep knowledge of Azure IaaS and PaaS services, including Virtual Machines, App Services, AKS, Azure Functions, Logic Apps.
Strong experience with Azure networking (VNets, NSGs, Application Gateway, Load Balancers, VPN/ExpressRoute, Private Endpoints).
Proficiency in Azure Active Directory / Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Conditional Access, and Managed Identities.
Expert-level skills in Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates for Infrastructure as Code.
Proficient in PowerShell and Azure CLI for automation and scripting.
Experience deploying workloads on Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO) and container registries (ACR).
Hands-on experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions like Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Dynatrace, Grafana.
Deep understanding of cloud security principles, Zero Trust, and least privilege access.
Proven ability to design scalable, secure, and highly available architectures.
Lead and mentor a team of hybrid cloud engineers and collaborate with other support towers.
Strong experience in project planning, prioritization, and stakeholder management.

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What success looks like in this role:

Leads and/or advises on site, regional and or cross-organizational network and systems-related infrastructure initiatives.
Contributes to planning and implementing new releases, updates or corrections to hardware, software, applications or connectivity.
Participates in strategic planning and development associated with future design, performance and capacity management.
Effectively translates, communicates and relays technical subject matter content to non-technical audiences.
Evaluates, recommends and maintains hardware and software management and monitoring tools to meet current and future organizational needs.
Defines and develops comprehensive user and related training and information.
Contribute in different stages of projects, evaluates architecture, implementation of projects and post-implementation support, follow up on best practices and frameworks for management of new and existing resources.
Participates in the creation, maintenance and improvement of the strategy of governance, policies, guidelines of public and hybrid cloud following industry-standards and customizing those for specific needs.
Contributes to the strategy of security posture and internal and external audits
Contributes to the development of cybersecurity strategies, cost optimization, platform stability, performance maintenance.
Contributes to develop new strategies to adopt, implement and manage new technologies like: Containers / OpenShift / Observability / APM, etc.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

Core Azure Skills

Deep knowledge of Azure IaaS and PaaS services (e.g., Virtual Machines, App Services, AKS, Azure Functions, Logic Apps).
Strong experience with Azure networking (VNets, NSGs, Application Gateway, Load Balancers, VPN/ExpressRoute, Private Endpoints).
Proficiency in Azure Active Directory / Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Conditional Access, and Managed Identities.
Experience with Azure Storage, Azure SQL, and Azure Monitor / Application Insights.
Knowledge of Azure Security Center (Defender for Cloud) and Azure Policy / Blueprints for governance.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Expert-level skills in Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
CI/CD pipeline integration (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins).

Automation & Scripting

Proficient in PowerShell, Azure CLI, and optionally Python for automation.
Experience building automated deployment pipelines and infrastructure automation frameworks.

Containerization & DevOps

Experience deploying workloads on Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO) and container registries (ACR).
Familiarity with DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and shift-left security.

Monitoring & Operations

Hands-on experience with monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Dynatrace, Grafana, FluentBit etc.).
Performance optimization and cost management through Azure Cost Management and Advisor.

2. Security & Compliance

Deep understanding of cloud security principles, Zero Trust, and least privilege access.
Experience implementing Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, Sentinel, and Private Link for secure architectures.
Familiarity with compliance frameworks (CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2) and Azure Policy enforcement.

3. Architecture & Design

Proven ability to design scalable, secure, and highly available architectures.
Experience with hybrid and multi-cloud designs, including on-prem integration via ExpressRoute or VPN gateways.
Ability to create architecture diagrams, runbooks, and design documentation.

4. Leadership & Collaboration

Lead and mentor a team of hybrid cloud engineer / other support towers.
Collaborate with security, development, and operations teams to align cloud strategy.
Excellent communication skills — able to translate technical requirements into business impact.
Strong experience in project planning, prioritization, and stakeholder management.

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