Azure Cloud Engineer

Swoon is partnering with a Fortune 100 industry leader to hire an Azure Cloud Engineer for a fully onsite, one-year contract opportunity based in one of their core tech hubs: Peoria, Nashville, or Dallas. This role offers high potential for extension or conversion based on performance and provides a unique opportunity to support and enhance critical cloud infrastructure and application environments. With a key team member preparing to transition out, the ideal candidate will onboard quickly to ensure continuity of knowledge and service. You'll join a high-performing, collaborative global team focused on delivering scalable, secure Azure solutions across a complex enterprise ecosystem.

Here are the details:

Initial one-year contract Azure Cloud Engineer opportunity

Location: Peoria, IL, Nashville, TN or Dallas, TX – fully onsite

Duration: Initial one-year contract with high potential to extend/convert based on performance

Pay Rate: $30-31/hr W2, open to C2C, Self-Corporation candidates as well

What you will do:

Deploy Azure cloud technologies based on requirements gathered from business partners using skills such as PowerShell, VBS, Python, Java, NodeJS, JSON, YAML, Bash, Azure Portal, CI/CD Pipelines, Azure DevOps, and GitHub.

Perform implementation and integration tasks for medium to large, complex in-house developed systems and/or purchased software solutions without close supervision for both PaaS and IaaS.

Assist business partners with documentation, training and usability efforts

Troubleshoot infrastructure and/or application connectivity issues across a complex global network

Enhance and adhere to architectural designs, processes and procedures

Manage and plan your deliverables using the Agile methodology

Provide high-level consulting to teams utilizing the sandbox environments, ensuring velocity in proof-of-concept activities

Ensure operational activities are completed within the required OLAs/SLAs.

Collaborate with the company's IT teams to enable foundational functionality as defined in the service enablement process

Skills needed to be successful in this role:

2+ years in infrastructure operations or applications development, with special emphasis in areas of networking, DNS, application services, security, distributed computing, databases, and storage

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related Information Technology degree

Windows Administration experience

Linux Administration experience

Azure Certifications AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-500

Experience developing or implementing architectural designs (Logical Technical Architecture), processes and procedures

Experience using the Agile methodology

Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, specifically Azure DevOps (Microsoft VSTS)

Experience with technical leadership or lead developer role with practical experience in cloud computing, architecture work, systems or application design, and development

Experience working with IT security on infrastructure or applications security compliance and security vulnerability remediation activities

Strong verbal and written communication (English), teamwork, analytical, and interpersonal skills

Strong problem solving and customer service skills