Azure Operations Engineer

Kforce has a client that is seeking an Azure Operations Engineer in Charlotte, NC. Responsibilities: Monitoring & Operations:

• Keep production healthy by watching the signals and acting on them; You'll be the first set of eyes on alerts and the person flagging when costs drift
• Monitor alerts across critical services using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics (KQL), Application Insights, Grafana, and Prometheus, and respond or escalate as appropriate
• Track cloud costs, surface anomalies, and flag optimization opportunities to the team
• Monitor and operate middleware services (PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka); Assist with root cause analysis on production issues

• Turn manual, repetitive operations into reliable, repeatable automation
• Execute and maintain Terraform to provision and update Azure infrastructure
• Write and maintain shell scripts that automate routine operational tasks
• Use Helm and ArgoCD to support application deployment and configuration

• Make sure the team can recover quickly and confidently when incidents happen
• Build, document, and maintain disaster recovery runbooks for critical services
• Validate recovery procedures regularly and keep runbooks accurate and current

• Operate within established guardrails and help keep the estate clean and compliant
• Apply least-privilege RBAC and work within existing Azure Policy and compliance guardrails
• Handle day-to-day secrets operations using Key Vault and managed identities
• Follow tagging and governance standards across subscriptions
• Solid hands-on experience operating production cloud infrastructure on Azure
• Practical Terraform experience provisioning and maintaining infrastructure
• Experience with monitoring tooling: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics/KQL
• Experience operating common middleware (PostgreSQL, Redis, or Kafka)
• Working knowledge of Azure core services: networking, compute, storage, and resource governance
• Expert with Azure identity (Entra ID)
• Familiarity with RBAC, Key Vault, and operating within governance guardrails
• Solid Linux and networking fundamentals
• Strong scripting in Bash and Python
• Application Insights, Cost Management, Grafana, and Prometheus

• Azure certifications such as AZ-104 or AZ-400
• Experience writing or maintaining disaster recovery runbooks
• Experience with multi-subscription environments
• FinOps/cost optimization exposure