Appex Innovation

Senior Cloud Engineer - Azure

Appex Innovation  •  Remote  •  13 hours ago
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Job Description


This is a remote position.


We have an opportunity
as
an
Azure Cloud Engineer
with our client:
Remote (USA - CST/EST Timezone)

Job Details:

Job Title:
Senior Cloud Engineer
(Azure)

Location: Midwest or East (Remote - USA)

Type: Contractual
(Contract-W2)

Experience: 12+ YOE

Role Summary

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for technical leadership, platform excellence, and operational maturity across cloud platforms and services. This role focuses on ensuring cloud platforms operate reliably, securely, and efficiently at scale.

Senior Cloud Engineers lead complex engineering efforts, mentor other Cloud Engineers, and drive improvements to automation, operational practices, and platform quality. While this role does not own the cloud architecture strategy, it strongly influences standards and designs through deep operational expertise and real-world platform experience.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Platform Engineering

  • Lead the implementation and operation of cloud infrastructure and platform services within Microsoft Azure.

  • Own complex or high-impact platform services and shared capabilities.

  • Ensure cloud platforms meet reliability, scalability, security, and operational standards. Review and guide platform implementations to ensure alignment with architectural direction

Platform Operations & Reliability

  • Lead
    troubleshooting and resolution of complex platform and infrastructure issues.

  • Drive root cause analysis and long-term corrective actions for incidents.

  • Ensure
    operational readiness, monitoring, and supportability of cloud platforms.

  • Lead major platform changes, upgrades, and maintenance activities

Workload Enablement & Integration

  • Support complex or high-risk application onboarding and lifecycle events.

  • Partner with application teams to resolve advanced platform integration challenges

  • Ensure platform readiness, security posture, and operational requirements for critical workloads

Cloud Security & Governance Implementation

  • Ensure consistent application of security, governance, and compliance controls across the platform

  • Partner with the Security team on reviews,
    a
    udits, and remediation efforts

  • Advocate for secure-by-default and least-privilege practices

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

  • Design, evolve, and maintain Infrastructure as Code frameworks and automation tooling

  • Drive standardization, repeatability, and reduction of operational risk through Automation

  • Review and improve reusable templates, modules, and pipelines

Technical Leadership & Continuous Improvement

  • Mentor and coach Cloud Engineer I and
    ll
    team members. Provide operational feedback to Cloud Architecture to improve standards and patterns.

  • Lead technical execution for migrations, modernization efforts, and platform improvements. Advocate for reliability, cost awareness, security, and engineering best practices

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years of direct hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure Deep hands-on experience operating enterprise cloud platforms.

  • Proven ability to lead complex cloud engineering initiatives.

  • Advanced troubleshooting skills and systems-level thinking.

  • Strong understanding of Azure networking, Azure VMware Solution (AVS), and NSX networking concepts

  • Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation

  • Al knowledge and conceptual understanding, including how AI services and capabilities apply in enterprise cloud environments.

  • Ability to mentor engineers and raise overall team capability. Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate problems clearly and present solutions to management, technical colleagues, and other stakeholders.

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Advanced Azure certifications

  • Experience operating Large-scale or shared cloud platforms.

  • Experience supporting hybrid or transitional environments

  • Exposure to cloud-native architectures, managed services, or containers
Appex Innovation

About Appex Innovation

At Appex Innovations, we use the power of technology to revolutionize healthcare. Our commitment to innovation, customer-centricity, and industry expertise drives us to deliver cutting-edge solutions that redefine healthcare. With a talented global team and a passion for excellence, we strive to create positive healthcare outcomes for our clients.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Princeton, New Jersey
Year Founded
2013
Website
appexinnovation.com
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