Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Position Overview
We are seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to operate, enhance, and expand our existing Azure environment. This role will take ownership of day-to-day Azure infrastructure operations while driving improvements, supporting new projects, and making sound architectural decisions.

Key Responsibilities

1. Operate and maintain the existing Azure landing zone and subscription structure
2. Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of Azure workloads
3. Manage core services including networking, compute, storage, identity, and monitoring
4. Serve as the primary Azure subject matter expert
5. Design and implement new Azure infrastructure as business needs arise
6. Extend and evolve the current landing zone architecture
7. Lead infrastructure components of application deployments
8. Evaluate new Azure services and recommend adoption where appropriate
9. Make architectural decisions aligned with best practices and long-term scalability
10. Partner with security teams on hardening initiatives
11. Manage Azure networking including VNet peering, private endpoints, NSGs
12. Automate operational tasks using PowerShell or Azure CLI
13. Standardize deployment patterns and documentation
14. Manage Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
15. Implement proactive alerting and health monitoring
16. Manage budgets, reservations, and cost reporting

Required Qualifications

1. 5–8+ years of infrastructure experience
2. 4+ years of hands-on Azure experience in production environments
3. Experience operating and improving an existing Azure landing zone
4. Strong Azure networking knowledge (VNet peering, VPN, Private Endpoints, NSGs)
5. Experience with Azure Policy, RBAC, and governance frameworks
6. Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform strongly preferred)
7. Strong PowerShell or Azure CLI automation skills
8. Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments
9. Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
10. Monitor server performance, diagnostic tests, and failovers.
11. Work with different teams to troubleshoot applications.
12. Participating in disaster recovery exercises
13. Administer and maintain hybrid identity solutions (Entra ID / Azure AD Connect) and cloud-only identity environments.
14. Provide administration and policy management for Microsoft 365 services including Exchange Online, Teams and Intune.
15. Experience with managing devices and policies in Intune.
16. Lead Office 365 projects as primary contact for technical support.