We are assisting our client in identifying and hiring a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to join their team. Our client provides cloud-based collection software solutions for banks, credit unions, and fintechs to collect and manage their portfolios.
Specifically, they provide the technology and data necessary to increase collections efficiency, provide a digital consumer experience, reduce staff costs, anticipate delinquencies, and provide insight into future credit decisions.
Position requires that youre local to Malvern, PA.
Description :
This role reports to the SVP of Product Architecture and is responsible for monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing their Azure-based SaaS platform. You will work closely with engineering and product teams to ensure the platform is performant, reliable, resilient, and ready to scale. This role blends hands-on cloud operations with a strong focus on automation, infrastructure-as-code, and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor production systems for availability, performance, and reliability. Implement logging and alerting to proactively identify and respond to issues.
- Manage Azure services, including App Services, Function Apps, Container Apps, Azure SQL, Microsoft Entra ID, Application Gateway, and Firewalls.
- Plan, build, and maintain real-time connections to customer data centers leveraging VPN tunnels, VWAN, and Firewalls.
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Bicep, ARM, Terraform) for consistent, repeatable deployments.
- Identify and resolve capacity, scaling, and performance bottlenecks in the platform.
- Design and support high availability, disaster recovery, and scaling strategies.
- Collaborate with development teams to ensure applications are production-ready and optimized for cloud environments.
- Manage and execute recurring tasks such as new customer database setup, VPN tunnel configurations, IP address whitelisting, email and texting configurations, SSL certificates, and secret and password rotations.
- Manage the operating costs of the SaaS platform and implement ways to reduce costs without sacrificing availability, performance, and reliability.
Skills and Experience :
BA / BS Degree5+ years of hands-on experience with Azure, especially App Services, Function Apps, Container Apps, Azure SQL, Microsoft Entra ID, Application Gateway, and Firewalls.Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates).Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics).Strong grasp of scaling, high availability, and performance tuning in cloud environments.Familiarity with CI / CD pipelines and DevOps practices.