Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cypress HCM is seeking a skilled Azure Cloud Operations Engineer to help manage and support enterprise Microsoft Azure environments. The role involves day-to-day administration, monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement of cloud infrastructure while ensuring high levels of performance, availability, and security across production environments.
Responsibilities
- Administer, configure, and maintain Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure
- Manage cloud environments to ensure optimal system health, performance, and uptime
- Investigate and resolve infrastructure, connectivity, and Azure platform-related issues
- Implement and support cloud security standards, identity management, and access governance
- Develop and maintain automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and/or Python to streamline operational processes
- Participate in incident response activities, root cause investigations, and ongoing problem management
- Coordinate infrastructure patching, planned maintenance, and production deployment activities
- Analyze cloud resource utilization and recommend opportunities to improve performance and optimize costs
- Support backup strategies, disaster recovery planning, and business continuity initiatives
- Work closely with infrastructure, application development, and security teams to support enterprise cloud operations
- Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, architecture diagrams, and environment documentation
- Participate in on-call rotations and scheduled maintenance windows as required
Skills
- 3+ years of experience administering Microsoft Azure environments in production
- Hands-on experience supporting: Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Virtual Networks (VNets), Azure Storage, Azure App Services, Azure Monitor, Azure Backup
- Experience administering Microsoft Entra ID (formally Azure Active Directory)
- Strong scripting skills using PowerShell and/or Azure CLI
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, DNS, VPNs, routing, and firewall concepts
- Experience troubleshooting Azure infrastructure and production cloud environments
- Knowledge of Azure security principles and cloud operational best practices
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or a comparable Azure certification
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code solutions such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation
- Exposure to containerized environments using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Experience with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, and cloud governance initiatives
- Understanding of hybrid cloud infrastructure and integrations
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