Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Title: Senior Azure Cloud Engineer / Senior Exchange/365 Admin

Position Type: Contract

Location: Philadelphia

Work Mode: 1^st 90 days onsite; Hybrid, minimum 2 days in the office thereafter

Interview Schedule: 1^st interview, 30min virtual; 2^nd interview, 1hr virtual or in-person

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

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

Required Qualifications

• 5 8+ years of infrastructure experience
• 4+ years of hands-on Azure experience in production environments
• Experience operating and improving an existing Azure landing zone
• Strong Azure networking knowledge (VNet peering, VPN, Private Endpoints, NSGs)
• Experience with Azure Policy, RBAC, and governance frameworks
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform strongly preferred)
• Strong PowerShell or Azure CLI automation skills
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Monitor server performance, diagnostic tests, and failovers.
• Work with different PGW teams to troubleshoot applications.
• Participating in disaster recovery exercises
• Administer and maintain hybrid identity solutions (Entra ID / Azure AD Connect) and cloud-only identity environments.