Azure Architecture and Engineering Manager

Role Overview

• designing scalable cloud-native solutions
• leading development efforts
• ensuring best practices across architecture, development, deployment, and security
• architect, code, debug, and mentor
• develop cloud strategy and roadmaps aligned with organization objectives and technical requirements
• evaluate emerging cloud technologies and assess their potential impact on organizational goals
• drive adoption of DevOps practices, infrastructure as code, and automation frameworks
• optimize application performance and reliability in cloud environments
• designing secure cloud architectures implementing zero-trust principles and defense-in-depth strategies
• ensure compliance with industry standards (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, etc.) and regulatory requirements
• implement/integrate with identity and access management solutions and security monitoring frameworks
• facilitate customer onboarding and implement a consistent pathway to cloud adoption
• manage and optimize Microsoft Azure, networking, VPNs, IaaS, PaaS, and SQL systems
• implement and maintain tools and services such as Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory, and Guacamole to support DevSecOps practices
• containerize applications to enhance scalability and deployment efficiency
• prepare detailed technical documentation to support development and operational processes
• conduct security assessments and remediate vulnerabilities in cloud environments
• collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, operations, security, and product management
• create reference architectures, design patterns, and technical standards for cloud implementations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 12+ years or more of experience; Master’s and 10+ years or more of experience, additional years of experience will be accepted in lieu of a degree.
• Must have a Secret Clearance.
• Certifications: CompTIA Security+ or equivalent (IAT-2).
• Excellent customer service skills, with experience working in a customer-facing position.
• Experience administering Windows and Linux Servers, and related services.
• Strong understanding Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML and the standards, procedures, and processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Experience with Ansible, Azure console, Elastic, Jira, Confluence, Git, and multiple Azure cloud Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings.
• Experience onboarding customer log-data from cloud platforms to on-premises or cloud-based analysis environments such as Elastic or Splunk.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Azure
• Cloud
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Splunk
• SQL
• Terraform

Benefits

• paid time off (PTO)
• flexible schedules
• discounted stock purchase plans
• career growth
• education and training support
• parental paid leave
• more!