[Remote] Lead Cloud Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ISF, Inc. is seeking a highly hands-on Lead Cloud Engineer to design, build, and operate their Azure cloud platform. The role focuses on executing cloud operations and infrastructure management while collaborating with development, product, and security teams to ensure compliance and technical requirements are met.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Azure infrastructure
• Build and manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Own cloud environment architecture, including networking, segmentation, and access control
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps preferred)
• Improve deployment reliability, speed, and rollback strategies
• Standardize build/release processes across teams
• Partner with the Security team to implement and maintain FedRAMP-compliant controls
• Enforce best practices: + RBAC / least privilege + Azure Policy & governance + Logging and monitoring
• Support audit readiness and evidence collection
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics)
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis (RCA)
• Improve system reliability, availability, and performance
• Work closely with development teams to enable scalable, reliable deployments
• Partner with product teams to ensure features align with platform capabilities and compliance requirements
• Act as a bridge between engineering and security
• Define and enforce cloud best practices and standards
• Guide architectural decisions
• Mentor engineers when needed

Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
• Deep experience with Terraform (IaC)
• Deep experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or similar)
• Solid understanding of Azure networking (VNet, private endpoints, NSGs)
• Solid understanding of Identity & access (Entra ID, RBAC)
• Experience working with cloud security and compliance frameworks (FedRAMP preferred)
• Proven ability to troubleshoot and operate production systems
• Experience in regulated environments (GovCloud / GCC High / FedRAMP)
• Familiarity with observability tooling
• Familiarity with SAST/DAST integration into pipelines

Company Overview

ISF is an IT company specializing in management consultancy services. It was founded in 1979, and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://isf.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

ISF, Inc. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 2 in 2023, 1 in 2021, 2 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.