Senior Cloud Operations Engineer (Hybrid) Bellevue, WA; Newtown Square, PA; New York, New York, or San Francisco, CA

Company Overview: Arctiq is a global, intelligence-driven technology services company delivering professional and managed services across Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure, Networking & Connected Experiences, Cybersecurity, Data & AI, Autonomous Operations & Intelligence, and Enterprise Service Management. We help organizations operate, secure, and modernize complex environments by unifying infrastructure, networking, data, security, automation, and observability under a single, integrated operating model. Our work focuses on helping customers reduce operational friction, improve resilience, and make better, faster decisions as their environments evolve. Arctiq builds on decades of industry expertise and a customer-centric ethos to deliver exceptional value to clients across diverse industries. \*\*This is a HYBRID Opportunity based in Bellevue, WA; Newtown Square, PA; New York, New York, or San Francisco, CA with one of Arctiq’s clients\*\* Position Overview: We are seeking an experienced Cloud Operations Engineer (Azure) to design, implement, and operate secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure within Microsoft Azure. This is a hands-on role focused on operational excellence—driving stability, performance, automation, cost optimization, security hardening, and resilient recovery strategies across a modern cloud platform. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and continuously improving cloud environments that support enterprise applications, ensuring alignment with security, compliance, and operational best practices. You will collaborate closely with engineering, security, and DevOps teams to ensure cloud services are deployed safely, monitored effectively, and enhanced continuously. The ideal candidate brings a strong combination of Azure administration, architectural awareness, and DevOps integration, with deep expertise in identity, security, and automation. You will play a key role in enabling rapid and reliable delivery through Azure DevOps and robust CI/CD pipelines while advancing the maturity and efficiency of the organization’s cloud operations. Responsibilities: Azure Infrastructure & Cloud Operations - Administer and optimize Azure environments across IaaS and PaaS services, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance. - Deploy and manage Azure services including computer, networking, storage, and platform services. - Monitor system health, availability, and performance using Azure-native and third party tools. - Provide support for production systems, including incident response and root cause analysis. - Maintain SLAs and ensure systems meet uptime and resiliency requirements. - Own operational lifecycle management for Azure app registrations, enterprise applications, service principals, client secrets, certificates, Key Vault integrations, and related monitoring/alerting to prevent expiration-related outages. - Support Azure networking resources including VNets, peering, private endpoints, private DNS zones, VPN connectivity, NSGs, routing, and firewall/security integration. - Deploy and operate Azure SQL Database / Azure SQL Managed Instance services, including secure connectivity, backups, performance monitoring, availability options, and recovery validation. - Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, and support handoff materials for Azure, identity, automation, and application platform services. Cloud-Centric Application Design - Collaborate with application teams to design cloud-native and cloud-optimized solutions. - Leverage Azure PaaS services such as: - Azure App Service - Azure Functions - Azure Logic Apps - Azure API Management - Ensure applications are designed for high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability. - Implement patterns such as microservices, event-driven architecture, and API-first integration. DevOps & Azure DevOps Enablement - Partner with development teams to implement and manage CI/CD pipelin…