Cloud Reliability Engineer - Azure

Posted: 6/19/25

Weekly Hours: 40

Role Number: 183

Home Office: Yes

The application window will be open until at least 7/20/25. This opportunity will remain online based on business needs which may be before or after the specified date.

About Harbor Compliance

Join Harbor Compliance, a pioneering leader in the compliance industry, recognized by Inc. 5000 and Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Merging with Labyrinth, Inc. in 2021, we've expanded our reach to over 35,000 clients, leveraging advanced technology to simplify business licensing and legal entity management. We’re a growing team, passionate about making compliance accessible and efficient for all businesses and nonprofits.

We are seeking an experienced and driven Azure Cloud Reliability Engineer to join our high-performing technology team. In this role, you will design, implement, and manage our business-critical infrastructure on Microsoft Azure with a strong focus on scalability, security, reliability, and performance.

This is a high-impact, hands-on technical position where your Azure expertise and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices will directly influence the availability and resilience of our systems. You'll work cross-functionally with Engineering, IT Services, DevOps, and Security teams to build infrastructure that is cloud-native, automated, observable, and secure

Success in this role will be measured by high system availability, proactive monitoring, robust disaster recovery, effective project execution, and knowledge sharing within the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as our Azure SME, constantly evaluating our infrastructure against evolving industry best practices and tool offerings, and providing clear technical recommendations.
• Maintain all elements of our Azure Cloud network infrastructure, including, but not limited to: VMs, VDIs, App Gateways, Firewalls, DNS, VPNs, Proxies, and Databases.
• Design and manage secure, scalable Azure environments including VNETs, Azure Virtual Desktop, Resource Groups, and Management Groups
• Ensure compliance with security standards and best practices (e.g., IAM, encryption, VNET peering, KMS, Key Vaults).
• Develop and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible
• Drive observability through comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools such as Azure Monitor, Prometheus, or New Relic
• Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure secure-by-default configurations (e.g., role-based access control, key vaults, WAF)
• Drive automation through scripting and DevOps practices (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Lead incident response and postmortem analysis for critical infrastructure incidents.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ensuring secure, automated, and reliable deployments.
• Contribute to the definition and execution of disaster recovery (DR), backup, high availability (HA), and cost optimization strategies.
• Partner with stakeholders to deliver infrastructure projects that enable core business objectives.
• Facilitate technical knowledge sharing within the engineering teams.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience in cloud networking and infrastructure engineering.
• Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or DevOps engineer in a production environment.
• Strong knowledge of Azure services, including VMs, VNETs, Load Balancers, Resource Groups, Azure Active Directory, Azure Virtual Desktop, and ARM templates.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native infrastructure design, including multi-region architecture, auto-scaling, failover, and disaster recovery.
• Experience implementing monitoring, tracing, and logging in distributed systems.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Working knowledge of Linux/Windows system administration, networking, and database fundamentals (MySQL/PostgreSQL/NoSQL).
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400) are a strong plus.
• Experience working in a compliance-driven environment (SOC2, HIPAA, ISO).
• Experience with cost management and Azure cost optimization strategies

Accommodations:

Harbor Compliance is committed to providing any reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

Compensation:

Harbor Compliance’s base salary range for this role is listed below. Compensation at the time of offer is based on factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of Harbor Compliance’s total compensation package. Other benefits may include health benefits, flexible paid time off, parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, 401(k), and educational reimbursement. Note that the salary range and benefits apply only to U.S.-based candidates.

Harbor Compliance base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:

(Salary range $135,000 - $150,000 USD).

Pay Transparency Policy Statement
Harbor Compliance will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by Harbor Compliance, or (c) consistent with Harbor Compliance’s legal duty to furnish information.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Harbor Compliance is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.