Senior Cloud Engineer

Position Overview

Kiewit is seeking a hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help build, automate, and support Azure cloud environments for modern application, data, and AI workloads. This role will focus on infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, secure cloud resource management, and modern release practices. 

The ideal candidate has strong depth in Azure infrastructure, AKS, containers, PostgreSQL, storage services, CI/CD, and cloud security. They should be comfortable turning repeatable patterns into reliable automation and helping teams operate cloud platforms safely at enterprise scale. 

District Overview

Kiewit Data Services’ (KDS) mission is to make Kiewit the premier data-driven organization in our industry. To accomplish this, our projects and districts need to have the right quality of data and the right level of analysis available to them at the right time. KDS is a cross functional organization with employees that have expertise in data, technology, support, and operations backgrounds. Our core functions are data Quality, Governance, Enablement, Analytics and Data Science. We are intent on delivering a world class user experience to Kiewit employees and believe in the power of analytics to aid us in this mission.

Location

Omaha / La Vista, NE / Remote 

Responsibilities

·Build, configure, and maintain Azure resources across managed resource groups 
·Develop reusable infrastructure as code using Bicep, Terraform, or similar tools 
·Support Azure Kubernetes Service clusters, workloads, access, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting 
·Manage Azure PostgreSQL, ADLS Gen2 / hierarchical storage accounts, container apps, jobs, registries, and related services 
·Help evaluate and host emerging platform components such as vector databases, graph databases, and AI/data infrastructure tools 
·Implement secure-by-default cloud patterns, including RBAC, managed identities, private networking, secrets management, logging, and encryption 
·Partner with application, data, platform, and security teams to design scalable and maintainable infrastructure 
·Support Git-based release flows, CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, environment promotion, and operational runbooks 
·Monitor reliability, performance, cost, and security posture; identify and resolve issues proactively 
·Document standards, deployment patterns, diagrams, troubleshooting steps, and support procedures 

Qualifications

·5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, or systems roles 
·Hands-on Azure experience in production or enterprise environments 
·Strong infrastructure as code experience; Bicep preferred, Terraform highly valued 
·Experience supporting Kubernetes; AKS preferred 
·Experience with containers, Docker, container registries, and deployment automation 
·Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases 
·Experience with cloud storage, data lake, or hierarchical storage patterns 
·Solid understanding of cloud security, identity, networking, monitoring, and least-privilege access 
·Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar 
·Scripting experience with PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar 
·Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills 

Preferred Qualifications: 

·Experience with Helm, Dagster or equivalent orchestrator, Flux, GitOps, or Kubernetes release tooling 
·Experience supporting data engineering, analytics, AI/ML, vector database, or graph database platforms 
·Experience with Azure Policy, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud, Monitor, Log Analytics, or Application Insights 
·Familiarity with cloud governance, tagging, cost controls, landing zones, and enterprise security standards 
·Azure, DevOps, or Kubernetes certifications are a plus