Azure Cloud Engineer
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About the Role
Safe City Group is hiring an Azure Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, secure, and operate their Microsoft Azure environment. The role requires 5+ years of hands-on Azure experience, expertise in security and governance frameworks, and relevant certifications.
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Responsibilities
- Design, provision, configure, and manage Azure cloud infrastructure including virtual machines, virtual networks, storage accounts, databases, containers, backup services, and platform services
- Manage Azure subscriptions, management groups, resource groups, policies, naming conventions, tagging standards, and landing zone components
- Implement scalable and resilient cloud architectures aligned with business and technical requirements
- Administer hybrid connectivity including VPN, ExpressRoute, virtual network peering, private endpoints, DNS, and secure routing
- Implement cloud security controls aligned with ISO 27001, NIAF, CIS Benchmarks, and internal security policies
- Configure and enforce IAM, RBAC, Conditional Access, MFA, Privileged Identity Management, and least privilege access
- Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Defender Suite, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Policy, and security baselines
- Monitor cloud performance, availability, security events, resource utilization, and compliance status using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, etc.
- Implement Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Recovery Services Vaults, backup policies, and recovery testing procedures
- Maintain cloud asset inventories, access review records, configuration baselines, vulnerability remediation records, and change documentation
Requirements
- 5+ years hands on experience in cloud administration, engineering, or operations with strong focus on Microsoft Azure
- Proven experience designing, deploying, and managing Azure infrastructure (compute, networking, storage, backup, monitoring, security)
- Solid grasp of Azure landing zones, subscriptions, management groups, Azure Policy, RBAC, and governance
- Hands on with Entra ID, Azure RBAC, Conditional Access, MFA, Entra PIM, and least privilege models
- Experience in environments governed by ISO 27001, NIAF, CIS Benchmarks, and ITIL v4
- Hands on with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Defender Suite, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Fortinet, and Freshservice
- Strong knowledge of cloud security, IAM, PAM, encryption, secure networking, vulnerability management, and compliance reporting
- Experience with backup, DR, replication, failover testing, and resilience planning
- Solid understanding of hybrid connectivity, firewalls, VPNs, private endpoints, DNS, and NSGs
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, or a related field (preferred)
- Microsoft certifications: AZ 104, AZ 305, AZ 500 (preferred)
Full Job Posting
About the role
- We are hiring an Azure Cloud Engineer to own the design, deployment, security, and day to day operation of our Microsoft Azure environment.
- You will be the person who keeps our cloud secure, scalable, highly available, cost efficient, and audit ready — across ISO 27001, NIAF, CIS Benchmarks, and ITIL v4 governance.
- This is a hands on engineering role with end to end ownership. You will work alongside our cybersecurity, SOC, infrastructure, application, and business teams, and report into IT/Cloud operations.
What you'll do Cloud infrastructure & architecture
- Design, provision, configure, and manage Azure cloud infrastructure, including virtual machines, virtual networks, storage accounts, databases, containers, backup services, and platform services.
- Manage Azure subscriptions, management groups, resource groups, policies, naming conventions, tagging standards, and landing zone components.
- Implement scalable and resilient cloud architectures aligned with business and technical requirements.
- Administer hybrid connectivity, including VPN, ExpressRoute, virtual network peering, private endpoints, DNS, and secure routing.
- Maintain cloud infrastructure documentation, diagrams, configuration baselines, and operational runbooks.
What you'll do Security & governance
- Implement cloud security controls aligned with ISO 27001, NIAF, CIS Benchmarks, and internal security policies.
- Configure and enforce IAM, RBAC, Conditional Access, MFA, Privileged Identity Management, and least privilege access.
- Enforce encryption for data at rest and in transit across cloud services.
- Configure Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Defender Suite, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Policy, and security baselines.
- Ensure cloud resources are configured securely and continuously monitored for misconfigurations, risks, and non compliance.
- Manage Entra ID integration with Azure resources, applications, and hybrid identity services.
- Conduct periodic access reviews for privileged and standard cloud access.
- Monitor elevated access activities and investigate privilege misuse or access anomalies.
What you'll do Monitoring & operations
- Configure Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Network Watcher, and service health alerts.
- Integrate cloud logs and security events with Microsoft Sentinel and other SIEM/SOC monitoring platforms.
- Monitor cloud performance, availability, security events, resource utilization, and compliance status.
- Create operational dashboards, compliance reports, capacity reports, and security posture reports.
- Investigate cloud alerts related to suspicious activity, failed authentication, policy violations, network exposure, and configuration drift.
- Coordinate with the SOC team to respond to cloud security incidents and threat exposure findings.
What you'll do Cost & resilience
- Monitor Azure consumption, resource utilization, reservations, and cost trends.
- Identify and remediate unused, underutilized, oversized, or non compliant resources.
- Apply cost optimization strategies, including right sizing, reserved instances, savings plans, storage tiering, automation, and lifecycle policies.
- Implement Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Recovery Services Vaults, backup policies, and recovery testing procedures.
What you'll do Compliance & change management
- Maintain cloud asset inventories, access review records, configuration baselines, vulnerability remediation records, and change documentation.
- Ensure all cloud changes are documented, approved, tested, and implemented through ITIL aligned change management processes.
- Maintain policies, procedures, standards, runbooks, and compliance dashboards related to cloud operations.
- Work closely with application teams, developers, cybersecurity, infrastructure, SOC, and business units to deliver secure and reliable cloud services.
What you bring Required
- 5+ years hands on experience in cloud administration, engineering, or operations — strong focus on Microsoft Azure.
- Proven experience designing, deploying, and managing Azure infrastructure (compute, networking, storage, backup, monitoring, security).
- Solid grasp of Azure landing zones, subscriptions, management groups, Azure Policy, RBAC, and governance.
- Hands on with Entra ID, Azure RBAC, Conditional Access, MFA, Entra PIM, and least privilege models.
- Experience in environments governed by ISO 27001, NIAF, CIS Benchmarks, and ITIL v4.
- Hands on with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Defender Suite, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Fortinet, and Freshservice.
- Strong knowledge of cloud security, IAM, PAM, encryption, secure networking, vulnerability management, and compliance reporting.
- Experience with backup, DR, replication, failover testing, and resilience planning.
- Solid understanding of hybrid connectivity, firewalls, VPNs, private endpoints, DNS, and NSGs.
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.
What you bring Preferred
- Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Cloud Computing, or a related field.
- Microsoft certifications: AZ 104 (Azure Administrator), AZ 305 (Azure Solutions Architect), AZ 500 (Azure Security Engineer).
- ITIL v4 certification.
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Bicep, ARM, or Terraform).
- Prior work in a regulated or government adjacent environment.
Pay
- AED10,000.00 AED16,000.00 per month
Work Location
- In person
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