Cloud Engineer - Remote Eligible

Sr. Cloud Engineer

We are seeking a Sr. Cloud Engineer to join their team for an initial 3-month engagement which will likely extend well into 2026. This role is supporting an app which is a relationship tracker to ensure we do not cross run into any compliance risks based on the services they provide their end-clients. A lot of what this Cloud team is focused on today is assessing their current cloud environment, leading with the right approach, and setting up best practices. This platform was built for the cloud, it's fully automated w/ terraform, mongoDB on the back end and presents an awesome opportunity to join an great organization with strong leadership. Some challenges in today's environment are that has historically leveraged a larger number of 3rd party vendors and that ownership piece has gotten further away from us. That said, they are bringing more of this in-house to have more ownership. In addition, their dev partners have been implemented a lot of terraform which has caused issues with production releases and therefore they are scaling that aspect back from those development partners and ensuring their local cloud team is doing the advance terraform modules and incorporating more of the back-end infrastructure pieces including security parameters.

Azure Cloud Engineer The primary focus of this role is to function as an Azure cloud SME (Subject Matter Expert) and provide cloud operational support across all aspects of our application environments including but not limited to compute health and monitoring, automated build and deploy, data backup and retention. A lot of the work is geared toward implementation for Azure Enablement. Other team members handling high level designs and this role geared toward the implementation side. The right candidate will posses over 5 years Azure Cloud and general cloud experience, with specific expertise around Azure Virtual Machines, Kubernetes Services (AKS), Azure Key Vault, Entra Active Directory, Azure Monitor, Azure Storage, Azure Backup, Azure Logic Apps, Azure SQL, Azure Recovery Vault

Your Day-to-Day Essential Duties

• Knowledge and experience working with blob storage, Mongo DB, MS SQL database architectures
• Experience with Cloud automation, Terraform and other tools to implement, maintain and improve CI/CD processes and tools.
• Experience with API based applications and containerization including Kubernetes experience
• Ability to implement, support and execute within disaster recovery scenarios involving our cloud hosted applications
• Ensure all execution of work, including measures to build, enhance stabilize, automate and harden fall within current security and compliance standards
• Understanding of appropriate role-based hierarchy and access management guidelines across the Azure solution and environments
• Part of a team that troubleshoots applications, middleware, infrastructure, networks, tools, patching
• Maintains/updates on ongoing operations and project tasks.
• Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and suggest improvements to the architecture.
• Assists in defining the appropriate operational planning.
• Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development.
• Collaborates on architectural design reviews and changes.
• Own, define and improve metrics, KPIs, SLOs and visualizations for systems.
• Act as an escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Drive quality accountability within the organization with well-defined processes, metrics, and goals for process quality. This includes leading effective postmortems and ensuring actions are followed-up.
• Building, and maintaining, robust, actionable alerting and monitoring systems and workflows. Influence across boundaries and at all levels of the organization.
• Work closely with development teams to improve services, deployments and releases.
• Troubleshoot production issues and continued documentation of runbooks.

What You Bring to the Team

• Possess a very high attention to detail and organization with the passion and ability to create order out of disorder with excellence and efficiency.
• A desire to automate everything. Whether that be infrastructure as code or tooling to eliminate toil, automation should be a core focus of your mindset and the elimination of repetitive tasks should be a constant desire in the role.
• Natural curiosity. You aren't simply satisfied with something working, you want to know why it works and how it works.
• A mindset of total ownership - you aren't afraid to dig into things you've never worked on before, from the browser all the way to the persistence layer. You've got a solid foundation in debugging and can jump in when needed to any problem you're asked to help with.
• An architectural mind. You understand the fundamentals of distributed computing and look for ways to make systems more resilient, self-healing, and eliminate the need for human intervention as much as possible.
• Very strong communication and interpersonal skills allowing the candidate to work well in a team environment and deliver excellent customer service.
• The ability to convey the importance of site reliability in both business and technical terms to a wide variety of audiences that range from non-technical to the most technical of engineers. Drive stakeholder buy-in of key metrics such as SLAs/SLOs for all supported systems.
• Ability to maintain SLAs through the implementation of proactive issue detection and reporting
• Experience developing scripts or tools for automating administrative tasks.

Skills Azure, Terraform, Azure Private Networking, SQL, development sdlc, Devops, Automation, Cloud

Top Skills Details Azure,Terraform,Azure Private Networking,SQL,development sdlc,Devops,Automation

Additional Skills & Qualifications Specific Area's Of Focus and Screening Questions

• Advanced Terraform creation o They should not only have worked with custom modules but know how to write them on their own. o What has been the extent of Terraform creation and types of modules?
• Advanced Azure knowledge o They should know how to use the Azure Well Architected documentation and create infrastructure that adheres to best practices.
• Advanced Pipeline Creation They should know how to proper create and manage repositories. ALL pipelines need to be created in YAML.
• Azure Kuberenetes Cluster Management Have they managed a secure AKS cluster across several regions? How did they manage that?
• Azure Databricks/Data Factory o Are they experienced in building databricks pipelines utilizing code and not from the portal experience? o Have they used Unity Catalog?
• Mongo DB or other NoSQL experience?
• Advanced Azure networking understanding o How have they built and managed azure networks in the past? o Have they helped design them before building them? o Have they worked in an environment where the networking is locked down to disable public access to anything except what is needed?
• Knowledge of DR and multi region workloads o Have they worked in multi region workloads before? o How did they handle backups? DR? Failover/Redundancy/Resiliency? o How would you do that with a Databricks/Datafactory environment?

Experience Level Expert Level

Job Type & Location This is a Contract position based out of Downers Grove, IL.

Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $75.00 - $85.00/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type This is a fully remote position.

Application Deadline This position is anticipated to close on Nov 21, 2025.

About TEKsystems

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