Junior Cloud Engineer

Location: Framingham, MA

Onsite Flexibility: Remote

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 6 months
• Contract to Hire: Yes — potential to convert to permanent
• Pay Rate: $52.00–$62.00 / Hour (USD)
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

This is not a typical Cloud Engineer role — the focus of this position is the governance of cloud engineering. The Cloud Engineer – Junior will deliver production-ready governance solutions with minimal guidance, ramping up within 2–4 weeks. The role involves owning end-to-end delivery across design, build, and documentation, with an automation-first mindset and a focus on scalable guardrails and reusable frameworks.

Job Expectations

• Deliver production-ready governance solutions with minimal guidance
• Ramp up within 2–4 weeks
• Own end-to-end delivery (design, build, documentation)
• Focus on automation-first execution, scalable guardrails, and reusable frameworks
• Deliver measurable outcomes: increased policy compliance, reduced configuration drift, faster onboarding, comprehensive resource guardrail enforcement, reduced vulnerability MTTR via triaging, and improved lifecycle compliance via TLM
• Provide strong documentation and knowledge transfer
• Collaborate effectively across distributed teams
• Adapt quickly while maintaining high delivery velocity

Azure Governance & Policy as Code

• Design and enforce Azure Policies as Terraform code and guardrails across subscriptions
• Manage RBAC, security posture, compliance, and lifecycle standards

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

• Build and maintain reusable IaC modules (Terraform and ARM)
• Automate landing zones and standardized environments

Azure Automation

• Build Azure Automation runbooks (PowerShell/Python) for tasks
• Ensure reliability with logging, error handling, and best practices
• Use Managed Identities for secure, credential-free access
• Oversee runbook lifecycle: version control, testing, and deployment
• Automate provisioning, compliance checks, remediation, and security triage
• Use PowerShell, Python, or Bash for end-to-end automation

DevOps & GitHub

• Integrate governance into CI/CD (Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, GitHub repositories)
• Enable policy validation, security scans, and drift detection in pipelines
• Manage code via Git-based workflows

What You Deliver

• Automated guardrails and policy-as-code
• Scalable landing zones and standardized environments
• Continuous compliance, monitoring, and remediation
• Reusable frameworks and strong documentation

• 3–5 years' experience in a cloud engineering role
• One (1) plus years of governance experience
• Hands-on experience with Azure Policy (initiatives, guardrails, remediation)
• Hands-on experience with RBAC and identity governance
• Hands-on experience with subscription / landing zone design
• Hands-on experience with resource guardrails across Azure services
• Hands-on experience with Azure vulnerability triaging (Defender for Cloud, Wiz)
• Proven experience with IaC tools (Terraform and ARM)
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline governance integration
• Solid understanding of cloud security and compliance
• Experience with Git-based development workflows
• Experience with architecture and governance models
• Experience troubleshooting Azure environments
• Exposure to TLM practices

• Azure API Management (APIM)
• Improving API governance maturity (APIM/API Center)
• Familiarity with Azure API Center
• Securing and standardizing AI/API integrations leveraging MCP
• Awareness or initial exposure to MCP (AI integration patterns)

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

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Job Number: 26-06167 Industry: Software Engineering