Microsoft
Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA +2 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Sep 28, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Mountain View, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- Required: 4+ years of technical engineering experience; 4+ years in Azure and Terraform (or AWS/GCP experience and a solid interest in Azure); minimum 4 years programming or scripting. Preferred qualifications also describe a Master's degree and 6+ years, or a Bachelor's degree and 8+ years, or equivalent experience; and 6+ years deploying and managing Azure infrastructure.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Builds and evolves secure, scalable Azure platform infrastructure and developer tooling, including automation and AI capabilities, for internal engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain reusable infrastructure modules, CI/CD pipelines, and shared observability and deployment tools.
- Advise engineering teams on cloud architecture, cost, security, and platform standards; drive automated compliance remediation.
- Develop AI-driven interfaces, agents, and MCP integrations to automate operations and improve developer productivity.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in a listed language, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience in Microsoft Azure and Terraform, or experience with AWS or GCP and a solid interest in Azure.
- At least 4 years of programming or scripting experience using modern software development practices, including CI/CD pipelines.
- Practical experience building or integrating AI agents, such as MCP servers, agent tooling, or LLM-based automation.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes and AKS, including admission policy and cluster platform services.
- Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Azure Monitor, and querying telemetry with Kusto (KQL).
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Microsoft Azure, Terraform, CDKTF, CDKTN, Pulumi, Bicep, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
AI focus
Build AI-driven interfaces, AI agents, and MCP server integrations to automate operational work and improve onboarding and developer productivity; maintain these as production components with CI/CD, versioning, and evaluation.
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