Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Onsite in Lisle, IL (suburb of Chicago)
Project duration: planned for 6 months, potentially longer
Contract W2
Role Description
We are seeking an experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to join our team.
The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with Azure-based infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, and plays a critical role in ensuring application teams can deploy and operate their services efficiently, securely, and at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure and platform services on Azure supporting web and API-based applications.
- Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to deliver repeatable and compliant environments.
- Support and optimize Azure Kubernetes Service clusters, including deployment, scaling, upgrades, and operational troubleshooting across multiple application environments (dev/test/prod).
- Partner with application teams to ensure secure, performant, and scalable deployments, providing guidance on best practices.
- Implement and enforce security, governance, and compliance controls across cloud environments.
- Support CI/CD pipelines, enabling automated builds, deployments, and environment provisioning in Azure DevOps.
- Manage and operate Argo CD.
- Monitor system health, performance, and cost, proactively identifying risks and optimization opportunities using Prometheus and Grafana.
- Lead and contribute to modernization efforts, including migrating legacy workloads to cloud-native architectures.
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment issues across lower and higher environments.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional team.
- Maintain documentation and promote operational best practices that support long-term platform reliability.
- Maintain and track certificates to ensure consistent website uptime and user experience.
- Along with other members of the team, provide support when production issues occur.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong experience as a Cloud / Infrastructure Engineer, primarily in Microsoft Azure.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (AKS) and containerized workloads.
- Strong understanding of networking, identity, access management, and cloud security principles.
- Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or similar tools.
- Proficiency with Git and branching strategies (e.g., GitFlow).
- Experience supporting Web APIs and application platforms from an infrastructure and operational perspective.
- Knowledge of performance, scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery design.
- Experience with automation, scripting, and operational tooling.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery models and DevSecOps/SRE practices.
- Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and collaborate across teams.
- Familiarity with React/.NET application stacks from a platform support perspective.
Nice to Have
- Experience modernizing legacy applications to cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with policy management (Azure Policy) and governance frameworks.
- Exposure to monitoring and observability tools including Loki and OpenTelemetry.
- Strong communication skills to translate infrastructure concepts to non-infrastructure teams.
- Experience implementing AI thoughtfully across platform engineering and application teams.
