Azure Cloud Administration Specialist

Job Title: Azure Cloud Administration Specialist

Work Location: Hybrid - 1 Centre St, New York, NY (3 onsite / 2 remote)

Duration: Long-term



Role Summary

The Azure Cloud Administration Specialist will design and architect solutions to implement a secure, scalable, and production-ready Azure cloud environment spanning multiple environments, including Development, QA, UAT, Staging, and Production. The role will support structured development, automated deployment using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub, testing, and secure application releases.

The solution will be built in alignment with the Azure Well-Architected Framework, ensuring strong governance, security, performance, cost optimization, and seamless integration across cloud and on-premises systems. The Azure Cloud Specialist will provide architectural leadership and hands-on expertise across design, implementation, and operational readiness.

Engaging experienced specialists will help reduce delivery risk, accelerate implementation timelines, ensure regulatory and organizational compliance, and provide long-term sustainability and operational stability of the cloud environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Azure architecture
• Provision Azure infrastructure
• Implement Azure Entra ID, RBAC, MFA, Conditional Access and PIM
• Design Zero Trust security
• Azure Policy and governance
• DevSecOps / CI-CD integration
• Architecture diagrams and runbooks
• Knowledge transfer

Mandatory Qualifications

• Azure Well-Architected Framework
• Azure networking (VNets, NSGs, Firewall, WAF, Private Endpoints)
• Azure App Services, VMs, Storage, SQL, Key Vault
• Identity & Access Management
• Zero Trust
• Threat modeling and risk assessment
• ISO 27001 / NIST
• Documentation and communication

Preferred Qualifications

• PowerShell
• Azure CLI
• GitHub Actions
• Azure Cost Management
• Azure Administrator Associate
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert