Remote Position
[Remote] Lead Cloud Engineer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ISF, Inc. is hiring a Lead Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate its Azure cloud platform. The role owns cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and operations while partnering with development, product, and security teams to deliver secure, scalable, compliant solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Azure infrastructure
- Build and manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- Own cloud environment architecture, including networking, segmentation, and access control
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps preferred)
- Improve deployment reliability, speed, and rollback strategies
- Standardize build/release processes across teams
- Partner with the Security team to implement and maintain FedRAMP-compliant controls
- Enforce best practices:
- RBAC / least privilege
- Azure Policy & governance
- Logging and monitoring
- Support audit readiness and evidence collection
- Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)
- Lead incident response and root cause analysis (RCA)
- Improve system reliability, availability, and performance
- Work closely with development teams to enable scalable, reliable deployments
- Partner with product teams to ensure features align with platform capabilities and compliance requirements
- Act as a bridge between engineering and security
- Define and enforce cloud best practices and standards
- Guide architectural decisions
- Mentor engineers when needed
Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
- Deep experience with: * + Terraform (IaC) + CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or similar)
- Solid understanding of: * + Azure networking (VNet, private endpoints, NSGs) + Identity & access (Entra ID, RBAC)
- Experience working with cloud security and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP preferred)
- Proven ability to troubleshoot and operate production systems
- Experience in regulated environments (GovCloud / GCC High / FedRAMP)
- Familiarity with: * + Observability tooling + SAST/DAST integration into pipelines
Benefits
- Remote work.
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