Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Nuvalence is a next-generation consulting firm specializing in mission-critical, intelligent platforms for the world's most ambitious organizations. Using our product-driven, AI-centric approach, we empower organizations to build for the intelligent digital future. Our elite team of product leaders, data scientists, designers, and software engineers enables our clients to solve their most complex technology product challenges and positively impact people and the world. Nuvalence's remote-first, globally distributed workforce is the key to our success: we hire the best and the brightest to join our 150+ Nuvaliens, working virtually together during Eastern Standard Time Zone hours.

As a Nuvalence Cloud Engineer, you will:

• Be a champion of Azure standards and best practices around access controls, networking, tagging/labeling, AKS cluster provisioning, Azure DNS, key vault, among others
• Design, build and curate cost- and resource-efficient cloud-native infrastructure
• Provide strategic and tactical guidance for running workloads in the cloud
• Automate the provisioning of infrastructure, platform and application delivery, deployment, and releases

• Solid experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform
• Proven record operating High Availability services on Azure (3+ years)
• Experience implementing SRE standards for Resiliency and Scalability of  microservices on Azure
• Experience with Azure container offerings  (e.g. AKS, ACI, App Services)
• Experience with monitoring Azure services with Azure Monitor (Azure App Insights, Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics) or Datadog
• Use of Continuous Delivery tools - preferably Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Good understanding of core Azure services such as Azure Functions, App Service, B2C, Configuration Service, Cosmos, Blob Storage, SQL Server, Azure LogAnalytics,  Azure Frontdoor  and Application Insights.
• Experience designing, deploying and managing container orchestration using Kubernetes
• Experience with Python or .NET Core
• Experience with additional Cloud providers in addition to Azure (AWS and or GCP) is desirable
• Experience with Azure AI offerings (OpenAI, Prompt flow, MLOps)
• Experience with other cloud service providers (GCP, AWS) is a plus

• Passionate about delivering commercial software products and platforms to market
• Deeply technical and constantly in a state of learning
• Able to communicate clearly and efficiently with a variety of audiences including developers, clients, customers, partners and executives
• Fearless in getting "hands-on" with technology and execution
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering processes
• Deep understanding and interest in AI, cloud, and distributed systems architectures
  Comfortable with ambiguity with a drive for clarity

We're a dynamic work environment with great benefits including:

Benefits (US):

• 3% 401K company contribution; 100% vested after 90 days 
• Extensive Health, Dental and Vision benefits
• Generous remote work stipend for what you need to be successful 
• Nuvalence has AWS & GCP partnerships, and we cover the trainings and certifications cost for all employees
• We're focused on employee growth by providing multiple resources for continuous learning
• Flexible PTO (we have a 3 week minimum policy in fact!) + company paid holidays 
• Bi-annual company parties: NYC, Toronto, and more to come! 
• Monthly Virtual Team Building Events including: Cooking classes, yoga classes, virtual escape rooms, etc. 
• FSA & HRA Accounts 
• Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) : Employer-funded health benefit plan that reimburses employees for out-of-pocket medical expenses.
• FSA Health Care and FSA Dependent Care : Employee-funded accounts used to pay for eligible health and dependent care services.
• Internal learning through bi-weekly knowledge sharing sessions held by our own employees

DEI at Nuvalence: 

• Our mission is to be champions of a positive culture, embracing an inclusive workplace that promotes equity and values diversity. We support this mission by:
• Investing in and committing to company-wide OKRs that measure DEI progress over time
• Bringing visibility to DEI initiatives through education, advocacy, and recruiting 
• Raising awareness about conscious and unconscious bias, and working towards acknowledging bias and reducing its impact 
• Making Nuvalence the obvious career choice for technically minded people with diverse perspectives
• Enabling our employees to work with each other as their true selves in an inclusive, comfortable, respectful, and supportive way.
• Weekly DEI working group sessions
• Company ERGs (employee resource groups) and Allies who are passionate in supporting the group members in creating an educated, supportive and inclusive culture.

• Senior Compensation Bands:
  • Major Metro
    • $181K - $250K USD yearly base
  • Secondary Metro
    • $152k - $210k USD yearly base