Operations Engineer - Cloud

Our client is a forward‑thinking financial services firm that values innovation, collaboration, and personal growth. The Platform Engineering team champions a secure, scalable cloud foundation-empowering multiple agile squads to deliver customer‑facing products with confidence.

Role

• Stand up and configure Azure, networking, storage and security components to build robust environments.
• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform-design reusable modules, manage state, and enforce best practices.
• Automate system configuration, application deployments, and environment consistency with Ansible playbooks and roles.
• Deploy, monitor and support line‑of‑business applications on Azure VMs to achieve high availability and performance.
• Conduct patch management, health checks, and troubleshooting; proactively tune systems for reliability and efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to define operational standards, governance frameworks, and SRE best practices.

Profile

• Proven track record deploying and operating Azure IaaS (VMs, VNETs, load balancers, NSGs).
• Deep expertise in Terraform: writing modules, managing remote backends, implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands‑on experience with Ansible-authoring roles/playbooks for configuration management and zero‑drift compliance.
• Solid understanding of application life‑cycle management: installation, monitoring (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics), patching, and incident response.
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, problem‑solving mindset.