Azure Automation Engineer contract multiple location

Job Title: Azure Automation Engineer
Location:  Phoenix AZ/ Raleigh NC/ Charlotte NC (Onsite)
Duration: Contract

Job Description
Azure Automation Engineer – Designs, builds, and operates automation that standardizes and accelerates Azure platform delivery. The role focuses on infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD enablement, subscription provisioning (vending), governance guardrail automation, and monitoring/alerting codification to ensure repeatable, compliant, and supportable deployments across environments.
Deliver production-grade automation for Azure infrastructure (design, build, test, rollout, and support), with strong troubleshooting across identity/permissions, policy effects, networking dependencies, quotas, and platform limits.
Implement and operate subscription provisioning/vending workflows aligned to enterprise governance (standard configuration, RBAC/policy bootstrap, logging/monitoring hooks, approvals, and promotion across environments).
Develop Infra-as-code modules to provision various Azure services.
Codify and operationalize monitoring and alerting baselines for production workloads, including alert tuning and operational readiness (runbooks, KT, handover).

Ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments, including promotion across lower/higher environments with appropriate controls.
Experience implementing Azure Monitor Baseline Alerts and onboarding services into enterprise observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace), including tagging standards and alert routing.
Working knowledge of Azure Landing Zone (enterprise-scale) concepts and automating platform guardrails (policy initiatives, RBAC patterns, management group structures).
Experience building discovery/inventory automation for tenants/subscriptions/resources (including service principals, groups, and role assignments) to support migration planning.
Familiarity with ITSM/SDLC controls and tooling (change tickets, UAT support, defect management such as JIRA) in regulated environments.
Certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate / DevOps Engineer Expert

Terraform and/or Bicep/ARM templates.
Azure DevOps Pipelines and/or GitHub.
Azure Migrate or similar tools
Scripting: PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Python.
Azure Monitor/Log Analytics
Dynatrace
Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent
Azure platform automation: subscriptions, management groups, RBAC assignments, policy initiatives, and standard resource deployments.
PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python
Very good communication and documentation skills”