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Cloud/Infrastructure Engineer

Horizontal Talent
Rochester, MN Contractor
POSTED ON 9/8/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/8/2026
Join a high-visibility enterprise content platform operations initiative focused on improving reliability, scalability, security, and day-to-day support for a complex digital ecosystem. This remote Cloud/Infrastructure Engineer role offers the opportunity to help modernize cloud operations, automate infrastructure, and strengthen production environments across Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure across GCP and Azure.
  • Support highly available production environments for digital platforms, APIs, and web applications.
  • Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
  • Help support and improve Kubernetes and container-based environments.
  • Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, connectivity, performance, and availability issues.
  • Manage IAM, service accounts, secrets, certificates, keys, and related access controls.
  • Automate repetitive operational tasks through scripting and tooling.
  • Partner with DevOps and application teams to improve deployment reliability and environment consistency.
  • Assist with production incidents, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation.
  • Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and overall operational visibility.
  • Create documentation, runbooks, infrastructure standards, and best practices.
  • Identify opportunities to modernize legacy processes using cloud-native approaches.


Skills

  • 5 years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE.
  • Hands-on experience with GCP and/or Azure; exposure to both is preferred.
  • Strong experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Experience supporting Kubernetes and containerized applications.
  • Solid understanding of cloud networking, including DNS, load balancing, routing, firewalls, and connectivity.
  • Experience managing IAM, service accounts, secrets, certificates, keys, and credential access.
  • Experience supporting production environments with high availability and reliability requirements.
  • Strong monitoring, logging, and observability skills.
  • Scripting and automation experience with Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar tools.
  • Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis abilities.
  • Ability to reduce manual work through automation and process improvement.


Preferred Skills

  • Experience supporting enterprise CMS or digital experience platforms such as AEM or Sitecore.
  • Background in CI/CD and deployment automation.
  • Experience with GitHub, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools.
  • Familiarity with APIs and modern web applications.
  • Experience modernizing legacy environments into cloud-native architectures.
  • Understanding of SRE practices, SLIs/SLOs, incident management, and toil reduction.


Horizontal is committed to fostering an inclusive, respectful, and welcoming environment where people of all backgrounds can thrive. We value diverse perspectives and are dedicated to equitable hiring practices that help build strong teams and better outcomes.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge and agree that Horizontal Talent may contact you regarding your application using automated technology, including phone calls, SMS/text messages, or email, which may be delivered by our virtual AI recruiter, Alex.

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