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You will be helping to maintain, add new features and operate our client's cloud platform that supports the entire organization.\nThe ideal candidate will have strong experience in AWS and Azure, and most of those associated services. The client is looking for strong Terraform experience and knowledge of networking within an AWS or Azure environment. Our client is looking for someone who truly has expertise in cloud engineering and building cloud platforms.\nTerraform is heavily used for IaC and that experience is a must have. Since our client is multi- cloud and this team also supports an Azure platform. 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