Cloud engineerpay: $30-$32 location:(remote) mexico, costa rica, colombia, chile, argentina, belize, puerto rico duration:6 month contractjob description we are seeking a cloud engineer to help build a centralized, service-oriented cloud infrastructure that sits between internal engineering teams and azure public cloud, enabling secure, scalable, and cost-efficient backend services at scale. This role focuses on storage, data platforms, messaging, and microservices frameworks, with a strong emphasis on infrastructure as code, ci/cd, and operational excellence. You'll help centralize shared services (cosmos db, service bus, storage) used by hundreds of internal services, while driving reliability, efficiency, and cost control.what you'll do: -design and operate service-facing cloud infrastructure that abstracts azure complexity for internal developers -build and maintain centralized storage and data solutions (cosmos db, sql, storage services) used across ~500 internal services -develop terraform-based infrastructure and automated ci/cd pipelines to deploy and manage cloud resources -own and evolve azure service bus–based messaging systems, ensuring efficient resource usage and real-time communication -drive cost optimization and resource centralization, including shared cosmos db throughput (ru) models -partner closely with internal service teams to plan capacity, onboard services, and improve platform adoption -support azure public cloud and on-prem hybrid environments, including customer-facing workloads -leverage ai-assisted tooling to improve development velocity and terraform automationrequired skills and experience -5+ yoe experience with microsoft azure (compute, storage, networking, messaging, databases) -strong ci/cd and terraform experience -experience building and operating backend, service-facing platforms -hands-on experience with cosmos db and/or large-scale data platforms -experience with microservices frameworksnice to have skills and experience -experience with databricks and/or snowflake -experience with azure service bus or large-scale messaging systems -background in sre, devops, or cloud engineering roles -programming experience in c#, java, or c++ -experience supporting large enterprise or regulated customers