Cloud Platform Engineer

Kimley-Horn’s IT Team has a challenging and rewarding opportunity for a Cloud Platform Engineer based in our Phoenix office. In this role, you will be working alongside a team of five professionals who manage our execution of Cloud Solutions & Architecture supporting the Cloud development platform for our various projects, both internal and external.Ranked as one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” Kimley-Horn prides itself on hiring high-achieving, dedicated, and professionals who are passionate about the work they do.Involvement in a variety of operational activities, such as continuous environment health monitoring, maintaining standards, and stability across our IaaS/PaaS/SaaS environmentInitiating incident management in the event of an issue and addressing escalationsImplementing recommended modifications while adhering to change management processes, vulnerability management and remediation, and engaging in disaster recovery testsIdentifying new cloud technologies and platforms to help solve technical challengesBuild cloud foundational components encompassing network, security, identity, operations, and governance in the cloudOperationalize solutions from proof-of-concept through production, using automation for repeatability, maintainability, and to enforce standardsDesigning technical architecture for cloud solutions that meet the needs for scalability, reliability, availability, and performanceCloud Capacity Planning, Profiling, Load testing, and monitoring of cloud applications, while incorporating security best practicesResponsible for day-to-day operations of managing cloud resources which include resource allocation, optimizing capacity, and configuration managementFunction as part of a team, involving and supporting others to get the job doneBachelors degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering or related fields of study2+ years of relevant experienceMicrosoft Azure certification (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ500, AZ-305, AZ-700)Knowledge in the platform of Azure IaaS, PaaS, SaaS services and foundational components of compute, storage, networking, identity and access management, security, tenant/subscriptionsUnderstanding of Azure App Services architecture and deploymentHands on experience with Microsoft Azure Services such as Azure API Management, Azure Database management, Azure Security, Load balancing technologies: Front Door & Application Gateway + Web Application FirewallsExperience with Azure DevOps for source control, continuous integration and deployment and software development lifecycleExperience with cloud containerization technology and configurationsExperience in High Availability, geo-distributed architecture for multi-regional applications that require improved performance, and disaster recovery implementationsAbility to automate deployments using Terraform, PowerShell, CLI, or Bicep, and manage separate environments (Development, UAT, Production) through an IaC solutionComfortable talking about technical issues with business partners and business issues with technical partnersAbility to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing in diverse situations with all levels of management, vendors, clients (internal), and peers. Ability and willingness to continue to expand knowledge and experience baseExperience with other cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP

Created: 2026-03-07