Cloud Operations Engineer (Remote)
Description
The Cloud Operations Administrator (COA) is responsible for supporting and administering Inspira's Azure-based cloud infrastructure and related operational platforms. This role focuses heavily on Azure operations, monitoring, automation, production incident troubleshooting, systems administration, and infrastructure reliability. The ideal candidate combines strong operational discipline with hands-on experience supporting cloud infrastructure in production environments.
Core Technical Areas:
Top 2 skills needed at this time:
- Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)
- DataDog
Azure Infrastructure & Operations
- Azure Virtual Machines
- Azure Networking (VNets, NSGs, Route Tables, Private Endpoints, VPN Gateways)
- Microsoft Entra ID / Active Directory
- Azure Backup & Site Recovery
- Microsoft Azure operational services and tooling
Infrastructure as Code & Automation
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Bicep / ARM
- CI/CD pipelines
- PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar scripting languages
Monitoring & Observability
- Azure Monitor
- Log Analytics
- Datadog
- Monitoring platforms, alerting, dashboards, and operational response
- Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Systems Administration
- Windows Server
- Linux Administration
- Active Directory / Entra ID
- VMware
- Identity and Access Management
Modern Infrastructure
- AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)
- Kubernetes
- Containerized workloads
- Cloud-native operational support
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
- Host Pools
- FSLogix
- Session Host Administration
- AVD troubleshooting and performance management
Primary Responsibilities
- Administer and support enterprise Azure infrastructure and cloud services.
- Monitor platform health and proactively investigate alerts, incidents, and service degradation.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across infrastructure, networking, identity, and application layers.
- Support Infrastructure as Code deployments and operational automation initiatives.
- Maintain Active Directory and Entra ID environments.
- Support disaster recovery, backup validation, and business continuity efforts.
- Participate in on-call rotations and production incident response.
- Develop and maintain operational runbooks and technical documentation.
- Partner with Cloud Engineering, Development, Security, and Client Service teams to support platform operations.
Skills
- Active Directory
- AKS
- Analytics
- Ansible
- Automation
- Azure
- Azure Monitor
- Bash
- Bicep
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Cloud Native
- Datadog
- Disaster Recovery
- Entra ID
- IAM
- Infrastructure as Code
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Networking
- Observability
- Performance Management
- PowerShell
- Python
- Root Cause Analysis
- Terraform
- VMware
- VPN
- Windows Server
