DescriptionNote: GlobalLogic estimates the starting pay range for this role to be performed hybrid in Charlotte, NC is $115,000 - $125,000 and reflects base salary only. This pay range is provided as a good faith estimate and the amount offered may be higher or lower. GlobalLogic takes many factors into consideration in making an offer, including candidate qualifications, work experience, operational needs, travel and onsite requirements, internal peer equity, prevailing wage, responsibilities, and other market and business considerations.
Requirements We're looking for a hands-on Azure Operations Engineer to support the day-to-day operational health of our Azure cloud estate. This is an execution-focused contract role: you'll keep a close eye on alerts and cloud spend, run Terraform to provision and maintain infrastructure, write shell scripts to cut down on manual work, and build the disaster recovery runbooks the team relies on when something breaks.
Job 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 fl agging 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 fl ag optimization opportunities to the team.
Monitor and operate middleware services (PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka); assist with root cause analysis on production issues. - Infrastructure as Code & Automation
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 confi guration. - Disaster Recovery
Make sure the team can recover quickly and confi dently when incidents happen.
Build, document, and maintain disaster recovery runbooks for critical services.
Validate recovery procedures regularly and keep runbooks accurate and current. - Security & Governance
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.
Required Qualifications
- Solid hands-on experience operating production cloud infrastructure on Azure.
- Working knowledge of Azure core services: networking, compute, storage, and resource governance.
- Expert with Azure identity (Entra ID).
- Solid Linux and networking fundamentals.
- Practical Terraform experience provisioning and maintaining infrastructure.
- Strong scripting in Bash and Python.
- Experience with monitoring tooling: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics / KQL,
- Application Insights, Cost Management, Grafana, and Prometheus.
- Experience operating common middleware (PostgreSQL, Redis, or Kafka).
- Familiarity with RBAC, Key Vault, and operating within governance guardrails.
Preferred Qualifications
- Azure certifi cations such as AZ-104 or AZ-400.
- Experience writing or maintaining disaster recovery runbooks.
- Experience with multi-subscription environments.
- FinOps / cost optimization exposure.
What we offer Exciting Projects:Come take your place at the forefront of digital transformation! With clients across all industries and sectors, we offer an opportunity to work on market-defining products using the latest technologies.
Collaborative Environment: You can expand your skills by collaborating with a diverse team of highly talented people in an open, laidback environment - or even abroad in one of our global centers or client facilities!
Work-Life Balance:GlobalLogic prioritizes work-life balance, which is why we offer flexible work schedules and opportunities to work from home.
Professional Development:We provide continuing education classes, professional certification and training (technical, soft skills, language, and communication skills) to help you realize your professional goals. Being part of a global organization, there are additional learning opportunities through international knowledge exchanges.
Excellent Benefits:We provide our employees with competitive salaries, health and life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, a matched contribution 401K plan, flexible spending accounts, and PTO and holidays
