Cloud Engineer

**Overview** M42 delivers comprehensive healthcare services across the full continuum of care; from primary care to advanced specialty treatments. Leveraging cutting\-edge health technologies and precision medicine, we ensure the highest standards of effectiveness, efficiency, and patient\-centered outcomes. With a global presence spanning more than 480 facilities in 27 countries and a dedicated workforce of over 20,000 professionals, M42 is uniquely positioned to redefine the future of healthcare on a global scale. We are looking for a Cloud Operations Engineer with strong hands\-on experience in Microsoft Azure to ensure stable, secure, and efficient cloud operations. This role focuses on supporting day\-to\-day cloud workloads, maintaining AKS environments, strengthening security and governance, and driving automation across infrastructure, patching, backup, and monitoring. The ideal candidate is operationally strong, automation\-minded, and comfortable working closely with engineering and DevOps teams to ensure platform reliability and scalability. **Responsibilities** * Manage daily operations of Azure environments across multiple subscriptions. * Provision, configure, and maintain Azure resources including VMs, VNets, Load Balancers, App Services, Storage Accounts, and Key Vaults. * Ensure compliance with cloud governance standards such as RBAC, tagging, security policies, and cost optimization. * Perform capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization. * Operate and maintain Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, including node health, scaling, upgrades, and patching. * Manage Azure Container Registry (ACR), container image lifecycle, and container security. * Troubleshoot AKS networking, ingress, and workload\-related issues. * Configure and manage Azure Backup, Recovery Services Vaults, and retention policies. * Perform backup validation, restore testing, and support disaster recovery activities. * Monitor and remediate vulnerabilities across Azure resources, VMs, and AKS nodes. * Use Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Security Center, and Log Analytics for security monitoring and threat detection. * Implement baseline hardening, secure configurations, and secrets management. * Develop automation using Azure Automation, PowerShell, Bash, or Python. * Implement and manage automated patching for Windows/Linux VMs and AKS node pools. * Create and maintain runbooks for operational tasks and routine cloud activities. * Configure monitoring, alerts, and dashboards using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Prometheus. * Lead incident response, root\-cause analysis, and preventive action planning. * Support operational tasks for Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Cosmos DB, including performance monitoring and maintenance. * Support CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and manage GitHub repositories and access. * Work closely with development teams to ensure deployment readiness and environment stability. **Qualifications** * 4\-8 years of experience in Cloud Operations, Cloud Engineering, or DevOps roles. * Strong hands\-on experience with Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure and operations. * Proven experience managing AKS and containerized workloads. * Solid understanding of backup, disaster recovery, patching, and vulnerability management. * Experience with Azure Automation, runbooks, and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, or Python). * Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident management practices. * Working knowledge of Azure database platforms and operational best practices. * Experience with GitHub and basic CI/CD workflows. * Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or Bicep) is a plus. * Exposure to GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux is desirable. * Azure certifications (AZ\-104, AZ\-305, AZ\-400, AZ\-500\) are preferred. * Experience supporting hybrid or on‑prem environments is advantageous.