Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Azure)

Role: Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Azure)

Company: Worldpanel by Numerator

Location: Bogota, Colombia - Remote

We are seeking a highly experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and capacity of our growing Azure virtual machine estate. The ideal candidate brings a strong automation mindset to keep our environment patched, backed up, monitored, and recoverable, proactively solving problems through code and eliminating repetitive manual tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the health and reliability of our Azure VM estate (predominantly Windows with a growing Linux footprint), scaling from 60 to 300+ VMs.
• Manage patching and updates with Azure Update Manager, ensuring compliance, handling maintenance windows, and managing applications that require version pinning.
• Drive backup and disaster recovery using Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery, including mandatory regular restore testing.
• Build robust monitoring and alerting using Azure Monitor and KQL (Kusto Query Language), focusing on auto-remediation so known issues fix themselves.
• Automate VM lifecycle operations (provisioning, configuration, decommissioning) utilizing Terraform and advanced scripting.
• Manage incidents affecting the VM estate, conduct deep root cause analysis, and resolve underlying problem classes rather than just isolated instances.
• Troubleshoot complex issues, including diagnosing when security tooling (e.g., Antivirus/EDR) is the actual root cause of an application failure.
• Collaborate with the security team on investigations by pulling logs and access history, ensuring systems are cleared before remediation or box restarts.
• Reduce operational toil by identifying manual work and building automated solutions, while maintaining clear runbooks and operational standards.

Qualifications:

• 8–10 years of experience in SRE, systems engineering, or infrastructure operations, featuring deep administration skills in Windows Server and a solid working knowledge of Linux.
• Proven track record running VM estates on Azure at scale, including hands-on experience with Azure Update Manager, Azure Backup, Site Recovery, and Azure Monitor.
• Strong practical experience managing infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform.
• Hands-on expertise with KQL for Log Analytics queries and alert logic.
• Demonstrable knowledge of Azure DevOps and GitHub, encompassing CI/CD pipelines and release practices.
• Strong scripting proficiency in PowerShell and Bash.
• Familiarity with endpoint security/antivirus tooling (e.g., Microsoft Defender) and Linux package management (apt/yum), including version holding/pinning and rollback procedures.
• Experience operating within enterprise-scale projects alongside distributed teams, and familiarity with AI agents or AI-assisted engineering workflows.
• Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; relevant Microsoft Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-104 Azure Administrator Associate).

Profile & Competencies:

• Automation-Driven: Refuses to do the same manual task twice, preferring to solve problems permanently through Terraform and scripting.
• Accountable Owner: Takes end-to-end responsibility for the Azure infrastructure, believing a backup is only valid if it has been successfully test-restored.
• Investigative Problem Solver: Looks beyond the surface during incidents, capable of differentiating between genuine application faults and security tooling interventions.
• Security-Minded Partner: Comfortably assists with security-led investigations and log reviews without needing to be a dedicated security specialist.
• Autonomous Collaborator: Capable of owning complex challenges independently while communicating clearly with distributed, multicultural teams.

Numerator is a data company transforming how consumers and markets are understood. Powered by advanced technology and proprietary, zero-party purchase and survey data from more than one million households, Numerator provides visibility into consumer behavior and attitudes across consumer goods, retail, restaurants, tech and media, management consulting, institutional investors, and the public sector. Headquartered in Chicago, Numerator drives decisions at the world’s largest and fastest-growing companies in more than 50 countries.