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Consultant 2 – Cloud Engineer (Azure)

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We are seeking a Cloud Engineer with 6+ years of experience building and operating Azure infrastructure environments. The role focuses on virtualized compute, networking, landing zone foundations, and Infrastructure as Code. The engineer will support design, deployment, and optimization activities across multiple customer environments and ensure adherence to platform governance and security patterns.

Key Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain IaC using HCP Terraform for Azure environments.
  • Support deployment of Azure resources required for Ignition, MQTT, PostgreSQL, networking, and integration services.
  • Maintain GitHub repositories and Azure DevOps pipelines.
  • Implement multi-environment deployment workflows for dev, test, prod, and plant-specific subscriptions.
  • Support private networking between plant networks and Azure cloud subscriptions.
  • Help automate Azure IoT Operations MQTT Broker deployment/configuration where applicable.
  • Support infrastructure for cloud-hosted Ignition servers.
  • Implement Key Vault, RBAC, managed identity, and secure secret handling.
  • Troubleshoot Terraform, pipeline, networking, and access-related issues.
  • Produce deployment runbooks and operational documentation.

    • Minimum Requirements

    The candidate must be a hands-on Azure IaC/DevOps engineer with practical experience in Terraform, Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, GitHub-based source control, Azure networking, Key Vault/RBAC, and deployment troubleshooting. Exposure to HCP Terraform, MQTT, Ignition, or industrial IoT platforms is preferred

    Skill

    Minimum Level

    Terraform

    Intermediate to Advanced

    HCP Terraform / Terraform Cloud

    Basic to Intermediate

    Azure DevOps Pipelines

    Intermediate

    GitHub

    Intermediate

    Azure Infrastructure

    Intermediate

    Azure Networking

    Intermediate

    Azure Security / RBAC / Key Vault

    Intermediate

    PowerShell/Bash

    Basic to Intermediate

    MQTT / Ignition / OPC UA

    Basic awareness preferred

    Documentation

    Intermediate

    Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with HCP Terraform/Terraform Cloud, Azure landing zones, hub-and-spoke networking, private endpoints, Azure PostgreSQL, Key Vault, managed identity, and Azure DevOps YAML pipelines. Exposure to industrial IoT, MQTT/Sparkplug B, OPC UA, Inductive Automation Ignition, Azure IoT Operations, Snowflake, or SAP Integration Suite is preferred. Certifications such as HashiCorp Terraform Associate, AZ-104, AZ-305, or AZ-400 are desirable.

    Any additional details (any preferred educational background or softskills)

    • Communication (written, verbal)

      • Skill Area

      Required Capability

      Priority

      Proficiency

      HCP Terraform / Terraform Cloud

      Workspaces, remote state, variables, runs, policies, environment separation

      Must Have

      Advanced

      Terraform for Azure

      Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules for Azure infrastructure

      Must Have

      Advanced

      Azure DevOps

      YAML pipelines for Terraform plan/apply, approvals, multi-stage deployments

      Must Have

      Advanced

      GitHub

      Repo structure, branching, PR reviews, GitHub integration with Azure DevOps

      Must Have

      Advanced

      Azure Cloud Platform

      VNets, subnets, NSGs, route tables, private endpoints, private DNS, storage, Key Vault, managed identities

      Must Have

      Advanced

      Azure Networking

      Hub-spoke, factory-to-cloud connectivity, firewall routing, DNS, private access patterns

      Must Have

      Advanced

      Azure IoT / MQTT

      Familiarity with MQTT brokers, MQTT TLS, Sparkplug B, Azure IoT Operations concepts

      Must Have

      Intermediate

      Ignition Platform Awareness

      Understanding of Ignition gateway/server architecture, edge-to-cloud deployment model, OPC UA/MQTT integrations

      Should Have

      Intermediate

      OPC UA / OT Connectivity

      Awareness of plant-floor device connectivity and industrial protocol boundaries

      Should Have

      Basic to Intermediate

      Azure Database for PostgreSQL

      Deployment automation, private access, firewall rules, backup/restore awareness

      Should Have

      Intermediate

      Security / Identity

      Managed identity, service principals, workload identity, RBAC, Key Vault, secret handling

      Must Have

      Advanced

      CI/CD Governance

      Environment promotion, approvals, gated deployments, auditability

      Must Have

      Advanced

      Observability

      Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, diagnostic settings, alerting

      Should Have

      Intermediate

      Scripting

      PowerShell, Bash, or Python for automation and troubleshooting

      Must Have

      Intermediate

      Documentation

      Runbooks, deployment guides, environment diagrams, operational handover

      Must Have

      Advanced

      Snowflake/SAP Awareness

      Understanding of integration dependencies, not necessarily deep implementation

      Nice to Have

      Basic
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