Cloud Engineer III role involves supporting and partnering with application developers to translate requirements into Terraform-managed infrastructure. Key responsibilities include modifying and maintaining shared Terraform modules, building new landing zones, and performing general Azure cloud administration. Strong Terraform and Azure skills are required.
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Job Title: Cloud Engineer III
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 6 -12 Months (Possible Extension)
Core Technical Requirements:
- Terraform is the primary skill and the main pass/fail area
- Minimum 3+ years of hands-on, production Terraform experience
- Candidates must be comfortable with live Terraform coding during interviews
- Strong Azure cloud engineering background
- Azure GovCloud experience strongly preferred
- Overall experience range: 3–7 years in cloud / infrastructure engineering
Terraform Expectations (Very Important):
- Deep experience with Terraform state management
- Remote state
- State locking
- Best practices for shared environments
- Experience supporting Terraform usage across large teams (15+ concurrent users)
- Strong understanding of Terraform workflows
- init, validate, plan, apply
- PR-driven workflows and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience building, maintaining, and updating shared Terraform modules
- Ability to manage dependencies and module relationships
- Familiarity with newer Terraform features released within the last 6–12 months
- Ability to debug and modify existing Terraform code
- Red flag: candidates who indicate Terraform should not be controlled via pipelines or PRs
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Azure Technical Focus:
- Azure networking fundamentals are required
- Experience with:
- Hub-and-spoke architectures
- VNET peering
- Traffic flow and transitive routing
- Experience building and managing landing zones via Terraform
- Some AWS GovCloud experience may be acceptable for a small subset of hires (up to 2 of 10), but those candidates must be exceptionally strong
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Day-to-Day Responsibilities:
- Support and partner with ~400 application developers
- Translate application requirements into Terraform-managed infrastructure
- Modify and maintain shared Terraform modules used by multiple applications
- Build new landing zones and update existing ones
- Perform general Azure cloud administration as needed
- Potentially train internal customer teams on Terraform usage and standards
- Operate within a centralized cloud operations function while supporting multiple app teams
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