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CBTS

Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

CBTS, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45208

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Senior Azure-focused Cloud Engineer – Hybrid onsite 2–3 days per week in Cincinnati, OH (Eastgate Mall, Batavia) – 6 Month Contract to Hire – Must be Green Card or US Citizen.

Pay: $80–$90 per hr W-2 Conversion Salary ($150k – $160k)

CBTS is searching for a Senior Azure-focused Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain the cloud infrastructure that supports these systems. This role ensures reliability, performance, scalability, security, and operational continuity across multiple applications, environments, and services. You will be responsible for building the underlying platform that allows engineering teams to deliver features quickly and securely—while enabling the ecosystem to scale.

Responsibilities

Design and implement Azure-based infrastructure for:

Blob storage for media and timing data

Identity & Access Management (Azure AD / Managed Identity)

API Management (APIM)

Build secure, resilient, highly available cloud environments for production, staging, and development.

DevOps & CI/CD

Maintain GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps pipelines for:

Automated builds

Automated deployments

Database migrations

Artifact and container management

Support infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using:

Bicep

ARM

Terraform (optional)

Security & Compliance

Implement cloud security best practices:

Azure Key Vault for secret management

Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

Network Security Groups and firewalls

Managed Identities for services

Zero‑trust access flows

Manage API throttling, DDoS protection, and monitoring alerts.

Observability & Monitoring

Implement monitoring and alerting with:

Application Insights

API health

Errors

Throughput

Live event traffic (race‑day spikes)

Performance & Scalability

Tune SQL and App Service performance.

Support auto‑scaling rules for high‑demand racing events.

Optimize storage, cold/warm data tiers, and retention policies.

Operational Responsibilities

Manage incident response and root cause analysis.

Implement backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures.

Work with backend/frontend teams on deployment readiness.

Enforce environment standards and configuration consistency.

Maintain cloud documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams.

Requirements Technical Skills

3–7+ years in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles.

Strong experience with Azure services:

VNETs, networking, firewalls

API Management

Key Vault

Monitoring & Application Insights

Experience with CI/CD:

GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps

Deployment slots

Automated migrations

Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Bicep/ARM/Terraform).

Strong understanding of security, identity, and environment isolation.

Nice to Have

Familiarity with Clean Architecture and modular monolith patterns.

Understanding of real‑time systems (SignalR).

Experience with containerization (Docker) and Azure Container Apps or AKS.

Experience with Sports technology or IoT‑like hardware integrations.

SQL performance tuning experience.

Soft Skills

Strong communication and documentation skills.

Ability to work cross‑functionally with developers, designers, and leadership.

Operates with high ownership and problem-solving initiative.

Thrives in a fast‑paced, evolving startup‑style environment.

CBTS provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

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