AI DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you're trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That's why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.

Job Description:

About Crowe AI Transformation

Everything we do is about making the future of human work more purposeful. We do this by leveraging state-of-the-art technologies, modern architectures, and industry experts to create AI-powered solutions that transform the way our clients do business.

The new AI Transformation team will build on Crowe's established AI foundation, furthering the capabilities of our Applied AI / Machine Learning team. By combining Generative AI, Machine Learning and Software Engineering, this team empowers Crowe clients to transform their business models through AI, irrespective of their current AI adoption stage.

As a member of AI Transformation, you will help distinguish Crowe in the market and drive the firm's technology and innovation strategy. The future is powered by AI, come build it with us.

About the Team

• We invest in expertise. You'll have the time, space, and support to go deep in your projects and build lasting technical and strategic mastery. You'll work with developers, product stakeholders, and project managers as a trusted leader and domain expert.
• We believe in continuous growth. Our team is committed to professional development and knowledge-sharing.
• We protect balance. Our distributed team culture is grounded in trust and flexibility. We offer unlimited PTO, a flexible remote work policy, and a supportive environment that prioritizes sustainable, long-term performance.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to own our infrastructure and DevOps lifecycle. You'll play a critical role in designing, scaling, and securing our cloud-native architecture, which supports distributed microservices and AI-driven business automation workflows. If you're passionate about containerization, automation, and modern cloud networking, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and manage Azure-native infrastructure to support a multi-tenant SaaS application
• Build and maintain containerized deployments (Kubernetes/AKS)
• Own CI/CD workflows (build, test, promote) across multiple environments
• Implement network-level security policies and service-to-service communication patterns
• Configure scalable, observable systems using modern monitoring/logging stacks
• Collaborate with engineers to optimize performance and scalability of distributed services
• Conduct performance tuning, cost optimization, and capacity planning across cloud resources and deployments
• Participate in architectural discussions, design reviews, and security assessments for cloud infrastructure

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in cloud engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure roles.
• Deep expertise with Microsoft Azure, including services like:
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure VNETs, Private Endpoints, and NSGs
• Azure Key Vault, Blob Storage, App Gateway
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or equivalent
• Strong grasp of containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code: Terraform or Bicep
• Working knowledge of distributed tracing, monitoring, and alerting
• Experience designing secure, highly available, zero-trust cloud networks
• Optimize resource utilization and cost-efficiency across infrastructure environments
• Strong familiarity with managing secrets, identities, and service principals across Azure services
• Knowledge of networking, DNS, load balancing, and secure API exposure in Azure environments

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with zero-downtime deploy patterns (e.g., blue-green, canary)
• Scripting skills in Bash or Python for automation
• Microsoft certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, DevOps Engineer Expert, or Solutions Architect Expert

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe's values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Crowe, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $80,500.00 - $160,400.00 per year.

Our Benefits:

Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great peopleare what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:

We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:

Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Crowe LLP does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.

Crowe will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. Please visit our webpage to see notices of the various state and local Ban-the-Box laws and Fair Chance Ordinances, where applicable.