Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Atlanta, GA | Atlanta, GA
Atlanta, GA 30339, USA

Bennett Thrasher is seeking an Azure Infrastructure Engineer to provide hands‑on technical leadership for our Azure server environment and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) platform. This role will design, administer, secure, monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve cloud infrastructure while establishing operational standards and mentoring other IT team members. The position requires deep Azure engineering experience, sound judgment in a production environment, and the ability to lead complex infrastructure work from design through implementation and ongoing support.

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, administer, and optimize secure, scalable, and highly available Azure infrastructure aligned with business, security, and compliance requirements.
• Administer Azure-hosted Windows Server environments, including deployment, configuration, patching, performance tuning, capacity planning, backup, recovery, and lifecycle management.
• Engineer and support Azure services, including virtual machines, virtual networks, network security groups, private endpoints, storage, Azure Files, Recovery Services vaults, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, firewalls, load balancing, and related platform services.
• Lead administration and optimization of Azure Virtual Desktop and Nerdio, including host pools, session hosts, work spaces, application groups, golden images, autoscaling, user assignments, FSLogix profiles, and application delivery.
• Monitor availability, capacity, security, cost, and user experience using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerts, dashboards, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and platform-native diagnostic tools.
• Implement and maintain identity and access controls using Microsoft Entra , role-based access control, managed identities, privileged access practices, Conditional Access, and multifactor authentication.
• Develop Power Shell, Azure CLI, or infrastructure-as-code automations to standardize deployments, reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and support repeatable recovery procedures.
• Lead root‑cause analysis for complex incidents, coordinate remediation across internal teams and vendors, and participate in planned maintenance and escalated after‑hours support when required.
• Perform architecture reviews, technical risk assessments, cost optimization, resource governance, and capacity forecasting; recommend improvements and lead approved implementation work.
• Create and maintain architecture diagrams, configuration standards, operating procedures, runbooks, disaster recovery documentation, and knowledge articles.
• Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfer, and role‑appropriate training to service desk and infrastructure team members while partnering with security, compliance, and business stakeholders.

What You Bring

• 6+ years of progressive infrastructure engineering or systems administration experience, including at least 5 years of hands‑on Microsoft Azure engineering in production environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, migrating, and supporting enterprise Azure environments rather than administering only preconfigured services.
• Advanced knowledge of Azure compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring, governance, backup, disaster recovery, and cost optimization.
• Deep experience with Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, Group Policy, patching, certificates, permissions, performance analysis, and backup and recovery operations.
• Hands‑on administration of Azure Virtual Desktop and Nerdio Manager for Enterprise , including image management, autoscaling, host pool configuration, FSLogix, application delivery, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Proficiency with Power Shell and working knowledge of Azure…