Cloud Operations & Observability Engineer

The Cloud Operations & Observability Engineer supports Azure observability, monitoring, automation, and security platforms, including Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Microsoft Sentinel , and related Azure infrastructure.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Technical Skills - Required

• Microsoft Azure administration
• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics Workspaces
• Microsoft Sentinel
• Kusto Query Language (KQL)
• Azure RBAC, Azure Policy, and Azure governance principles
• Azure networking fundamentals
• PowerShell scripting
• Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and Azure Automation
• Monitoring, alerting, Application Insights, and Workbooks
• Service management processes

Technical Skills - Preferred

• Defender for Cloud
• Logic Apps
• Azure DevOps (IaC using ARM Templates, Bicep or Terraform)
• Jira Cloud for Agile Scrum/Kanban work tracking
• Security monitoring platforms
• ITIL practices

Experience Requirements - Required

• Experience administering and supporting Microsoft Sentinel and Log Analytics.
• Experience using KQL to build and troubleshoot queries, workbooks, dashboards, analytics, and data validation.
• Experience supporting enterprise monitoring, observability, production systems, or operational support platforms.
• Experience troubleshooting complex infrastructure, monitoring, or platform-related issues.
• Experience working within structured support processes, including incident, problem, change, and service request management.
• Experience collaborating across technical teams and stakeholders to deliver platform support and enhancements.

Experience Requirements - Preferred

• Experience developing operational automation solutions.
• Experience working in managed services environments.
• Experience supporting security-related technologies, compliance, audit, or remediation initiatives.
• Experience operating within ITIL-based service management environments.

Most important skill set requirements are around proven ability to implement/support/manage Azure Sentinel/Log Analytics Workspaces (specifically in support of Security solutions (which is what will be feeding this Sentinel instance)), setting up Sentinel connectors*