Consultant 2 – Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Valorem Reply is an award-winning digital transformation firm focused on delivering data-driven enterprise, IT modernization, customer experience, product transformation and digital workplace. Through the expertise of their people and power of Microsoft technologies, they provide hyper-scale and agile delivery of unique digital business services, strategic business models and design-led user experiences. Their innovative strategies and solutions securely and rapidly transform the way their clients do business. We are seeking a Cloud Engineer with experience building and operating Azure infrastructure environments. The role focuses on virtualized compute, networking, landing zone foundations, and Infrastructure as Code. The engineer will support design, deployment, and optimization activities across multiple customer environments and ensure adherence to platform governance and security patterns.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain IaC using HCP Terraform for Azure environments.
• Support deployment of Azure resources required for Ignition, MQTT, PostgreSQL, networking, and integration services.
• Maintain GitHub repositories and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Implement multi-environment deployment workflows for dev, test, prod, and plant-specific subscriptions.
• Support private networking between plant networks and Azure cloud subscriptions.
• Help automate Azure IoT Operations MQTT Broker deployment/configuration where applicable.
• Support infrastructure for cloud-hosted Ignition servers.
• Implement Key Vault, RBAC, managed identity, and secure secret handling.
• Troubleshoot Terraform, pipeline, networking, and access-related issues.
• Produce deployment runbooks and operational documentation.

Minimum Requirements The candidate must be a hands-on Azure IaC/DevOps engineer with practical experience in Terraform, Azure DevOps YAML pipelines, GitHub-based source control, Azure networking, Key Vault/RBAC, and deployment troubleshooting. Exposure to HCP Terraform, MQTT, Ignition, or industrial IoT platforms is preferred

Skill

Minimum Level

Terraform

Intermediate to Advanced

HCP Terraform / Terraform Cloud

Basic to Intermediate

Azure DevOps Pipelines

Intermediate

GitHub

Intermediate

Azure Infrastructure

Intermediate

Azure Networking

Intermediate

Azure Security / RBAC / Key Vault

Intermediate

PowerShell/Bash

Basic to Intermediate

MQTT / Ignition / OPC UA

Basic awareness preferred

Documentation

Intermediate

Preferred Qualifications •

Experience with HCP Terraform/Terraform Cloud, Azure landing zones, hub-and-spoke networking, private endpoints, Azure PostgreSQL, Key Vault, managed identity, and Azure DevOps YAML pipelines. Exposure to industrial IoT, MQTT/Sparkplug B, OPC UA, Inductive Automation Ignition, Azure IoT Operations, Snowflake, or SAP Integration Suite is preferred. Certifications such as HashiCorp Terraform Associate, AZ-104, AZ-305, or AZ-400 are desirable.

Any additional details (any preferred educational background or softskills)

• Communication (written, verbal)

Skill Area

Required Capability

Priority

Proficiency

HCP Terraform / Terraform Cloud

Workspaces, remote state, variables, runs, policies, environment separation

Must Have

Advanced

Terraform for Azure

Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules for Azure infrastructure

Must Have

Advanced

Azure DevOps

YAML pipelines for Terraform plan/apply, approvals, multi-stage deployments

Must Have

Advanced

GitHub

Repo structure, branching, PR reviews, GitHub integration with Azure DevOps

Must Have

Advanced

Azure Cloud Platform

VNets, subnets, NSGs, route tables, private endpoints, private DNS, storage, Key Vault, managed identities

Must Have

Advanced

Azure Networking

Hub-spoke, factory-to-cloud connectivity, firewall routing, DNS, private access patterns

Must Have

Advanced

Azure IoT / MQTT

Familiarity with MQTT brokers, MQTT TLS, Sparkplug B, Azure IoT Operations concepts

Must Have

Intermediate

Ignition Platform Awareness

Understanding of Ignition gateway/server architecture, edge-to-cloud deployment model, OPC UA/MQTT integrations

Should Have

Intermediate

OPC UA / OT Connectivity

Awareness of plant-floor device connectivity and industrial protocol boundaries

Should Have

Basic to Intermediate

Azure Database for PostgreSQL

Deployment automation, private access, firewall rules, backup/restore awareness

Should Have

Intermediate

Security / Identity

Managed identity, service principals, workload identity, RBAC, Key Vault, secret handling

Must Have

Advanced

CI/CD Governance

Environment promotion, approvals, gated deployments, auditability

Must Have

Advanced

Observability

Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, diagnostic settings, alerting

Should Have

Intermediate

Scripting

PowerShell, Bash, or Python for automation and troubleshooting

Must Have

Intermediate

Documentation

Runbooks, deployment guides, environment diagrams, operational handover

Must Have

Advanced

Snowflake/SAP Awareness

Understanding of integration dependencies, not necessarily deep implementation

Nice to Have

Basic

About Reply Reply specializes in the design and implementation of solutions based on new communication channels and digital media. Reply is a network of highly specialized companies supporting global industrial groups operating in the telecom and media, industry and services, banking, insurance and public administration sectors in the definition and development of business models enabled for the new paradigms of AI, cloud computing, digital media and the Internet of Things. Reply services include Consulting, System Integration and Digital Services. Visit our website at www.reply.com to learn more about our open roles.