Cloud Engineer Junior

Title: Cloud Engineer
Duration: 6 Months
Location: 100% remote
Work Authorization: US Citizen and Green Card only
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HM Meeting Notes:

• Not the typical Cloud Engineer role
• This role is the governance of cloud engineering
• Potential to extend
• Fully remote (no candidates in PST time zone)
• Open to contract (no work sponsorship) and contract to perm talent
• No max on the number of resumes to shortlist
• Interview process: 2 rounds

Job Details
Job Expectations:

• Deliver production-ready governance solutions with minimal guidance
• Ramp up within 2 4 weeks
• Own end-to-end delivery (design build documentation)

Focus on:

• Automation-first execution
• Scalable guardrails
• Reusable frameworks
• Deliver measurable outcomes:
• Increased policy compliance
• Reduced configuration drift
• Faster onboarding
• Comprehensive resource guardrail enforcement
• Reduced vulnerability MTTR via triaging
• Improved lifecycle compliance via TLM
• Provide strong documentation and knowledge transfer
• Collaborate effectively across distributed teams
• Adapt quickly while maintaining high delivery velocity

Core Focus Areas:
Azure Governance & Policy as Code

• Design and enforce Azure Policies as Terraform code and guardrails across subscriptions
• Manage RBAC, security posture, compliance, and lifecycle standards
• 2. Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Build and maintain reusable IaC modules (Terraform and ARM)
• Automate landing zones and standardized environments
• 3. Azure Automation runbooks (PowerShell/Python) for tasks
• Ensure reliability with logging, error handling, and best practices
• Use Managed Identities for secure, credential-free access
• Oversee runbook lifecycle: version control, testing, and deployment
• Automate provisioning, compliance checks, remediation, and security triage
• Use PowerShell, Python, or Bash for end-to-end automation
• 4. DevOps & GitHub
• Integrate governance into CI/CD (Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, GitHub repositories)
• Enable policy validation, security scans, and drift detection in pipelines
• Manage code via Git-based workflows

What You Deliver:

• Automated guardrails and policy-as-code
• Scalable landing zones and standardized environments
• Continuous compliance, monitoring, and remediation
• Reusable frameworks and strong documentation

Required Experience:

• 3-5 years experience in a cloud engineering role
• One (1) plus years of governance experience
• Hands-on experience with:
• Azure Policy (initiatives, guardrails, remediation)
• RBAC and identity governance
• Subscription / landing zone design
• Resource guardrails across Azure services
• Azure vulnerability triaging (Defender for Cloud, Wiz)
• Proven experience with IaC tools (Terraform and ARM)
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline governance integration
• Solid understanding of cloud security and compliance

Experience with:

• Git-based development workflows
• Architecture and governance models
• Troubleshooting Azure environments
• Exposure to TLM practices
• Preferred Experience:
• Azure API Management (APIM)
• Improving API governance maturity (APIM/API Center)
• Familiarity with Azure API Center
• Securing and standardizing AI/API integrations leveraging MCP
• Awareness or initial exposure to MCP (AI integration patterns)

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