Cloud Engineer (Azure)

As an Azure Cloud Engineer at AccumTech, you help design, deploy, manage, and support cloud solutions built on Microsoft Azure. You will work in a collaborative atmosphere to architect, design, and implement AccumTech’s Azure cloud strategy.  In this role, you will incorporate governance, security, and operational best practices. You will assist in designing scalable solutions, guide cloud strategy, establish standards, and ensure the reliability and performance of Azure-based workloads.

A key part of this role is knowledge sharing, documentation, and upskilling others on the team. You will share findings, document best practices, build internal knowledge resources, and help elevate the cloud competency of the broader team.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Azure services, Azure networking, identity, security frameworks, and enterprise cloud operations.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist in the development and execution of Azure cloud strategy, architecture, and implementation plans
• Help build and maintain Azure resources, services, and environments
• Establish performance monitoring, capacity planning, and operational health assessments
• Establish protocol for incident analysis and remediation using Azure-native monitoring and diagnostic tools
• Assist with design and maintenance using Azure-native backup, recovery, and DR/BCP configurations
• Troubleshoot Azure services, identity (AD/Entra), networking, and security issues
• Assist in the design and implementation of governance models, including RBAC, least privilege, Azure Policies, and conditional access
• Analyze cloud events using Azure Monitor, Sentinel, and Log Analytics
• Produce technical documentation, architecture diagrams, and standard operating procedures
• Collaborate with development teams to support deployments, integrations, and best practices
• Assist with escalated Azure and identity-related issues
• Define baseline performance standards for cloud workloads
• Knowledge sharing with department staff on Azure best practices, findings, new capabilities, and operational insights

• Understanding of Azure services such as VMSS, App Services, Storage, Functions, Key Vault, SQL, and core networking
• Familiarity with Azure networking: VNets, NSGs/ASGs, Private Endpoints, WAF, load balancing
• Understanding of cloud security principles including RBAC, JIT, and conditional access
• Experience designing Azure-native backup, restore, replication, and DR strategies
• Familiarity with Azure Monitor, Sentinel, Log Analytics, and cross-service event correlation
• Experience with Active Directory, Entra ID, conditional access, and hybrid identity
• Conceptually design cloud-native architectures with scalability, resilience, and redundancy
• Comfortable working within compliance, security frameworks, and cloud best practices

• Ability to work in a team atmosphere to understand complex Azure concepts
• Strong written communication and documentation skills
• Forward-thinking mindset with the ability to anticipate issues and drive proactive solutions
• Comfortable asking clarifying questions and driving architectural discussions
• Skilled in cross-functional collaboration
• Enjoys knowledge sharing, training, mentoring, and helping others grow technically
• Able to translate cloud designs into clear concepts and actionable guidance for other teams

• Azure architecture certifications completed or in-progress
• Relevant Microsoft or cloud security certifications
• Experience with automation or IaC (Bicep, ARM, Terraform, GitHub Actions)
• Containerization experience (AKS, Kubernetes, etc)