Job Description

Location: Redmond, WA

Worksite: Onsite

About WCT

WCT is a global talent solutions partner committed to delivering high-impact technology and engineering talent to some of the world's most innovative companies. As a WCT employee, you will be part of a dynamic, growth-oriented culture that values collaboration, continuous learning, and excellence in execution.

Role Overview

You'll implement and manage changes across Service Fabric clusters, cloud services, and adjacent infrastructure to achieve high reliability, security/compliance alignment, and operational excellence. The role emphasizes automation, secure deployments via ADO (YAML) pipelines, secret rotations, geo expansion (including sovereign cloud), and modernization-migrating legacy workloads, consolidating services to improve cost, and simplifying architecture (distributed systems troubleshooting is key).

What You'll Do

• Own health, configuration, and change management for multi region Azure Service Fabric clusters; author rollout/upgrade templates and monitor with Azure Monitor/Application Insights/Geneva.
• Build, maintain, and harden Azure DevOps (ADO) YAML pipelines; manage libraries, variable groups, service connections, certificates, and secrets; eliminate PATs/local authorities by adopting workload identity.
• Provide support for S360 and SFI platforms, ensuring compliance and reliability across integrated workflows enabling Security initiatives like securing azure resources(through IaC), securing build/deployment pipelines, enabling modern security practices and mitigating application security concerns raised by Microsoft as best practices etc.
• Drive geo expansion and sovereign cloud enablement; design traffic flows with Azure Front Door (Premium), Traffic Manager, DNS; prepare IPv6 ready ARM/Bicep templates.
• Lead modernization such as Service Fabric AKS transitions, service consolidation, and cost optimization (rightsizing, reserved instances, eliminating waste).
• Troubleshoot distributed systems end to end (service model, deployment, networking, data); debug C#/.NET services; and resolve Cosmos DB issues where needed.
• Document runbooks/operational standards; automate with PowerShell; uphold security/compliance best practices and change control.

What You'll Bring

• 1+ years in Azure engineering/SRE/DevOps working on distributed systems and cloud automation.
• Hands on expertise with Azure Service Fabric (stateless/stateful apps, node types, cluster upgrades) and ADO YAML pipelines.
• Proficiency in scripting (PowerShell); working knowledge of C# for service/debug scenarios.
• Experience with observability tooling (Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Geneva) and Kusto for diagnostics.
• Experience in security initiatives like securing azure resources(through IaC), securing build/deployment pipelines, enabling modern security practices and mitigating application security concerns raised by Microsoft as best practices etc.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2; HIPAA/GDPR as applicable).

Nice to have:

• AKS/Kubernetes, 1ES/OneBranch/1CDN, Azure networking (AFD, Traffic Manager), Cosmos DB.
• IaC (ARM/Bicep)

Compensation / Salary Range

The typical pay for this role across the U.S. is USD $17/hourly. Factors that may affect pay within or outside of this range may include but are not limited to geography or market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

WCT will accept applications, and process offers for this role until the role is closed.

Equal Employment Opportunity Declaration

WCT is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

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