Sr. Azure Engineer

Piper Companies is seeking a Sr. Azure Engineer to join a growing financial services organization located in Bethesda, MD. This role will focus on owning and modernizing the organization's Azure platform, including landing zones, Terraform standards, governance, enterprise networking, and cloud infrastructure automation. The ideal candidate will help drive Azure platform strategy while remaining hands‑on with engineering, automation, and architectural decision‑making.

This is a hybrid role requiring 4 days per week onsite in Bethesda, MD.

• Design, build, and evolve Azure landing zones, management group structures, subscription architecture, and governance standards.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Bicep, ARM, and Azure Dev Ops pipelines.
• Design and maintain secure Azure networking solutions, including hub-and-spoke architecture, Private Link, Private Endpoints, Azure Firewall, routing, and hybrid DNS.
• Build and support scalable, repeatable cloud infrastructure through automation using Power Shell, Azure CLI, and Microsoft Graph.
• Develop and test disaster recovery and business continuity solutions utilizing Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, and resiliency best practices.
• Establish Azure governance, cost management, policy enforcement, monitoring, alerting, and security standards across the cloud environment.
• Support enterprise integrations by designing networking, identity, certificate, and connectivity foundations for services such as API Management and Service Bus.
• Partner with security, application, infrastructure, and managed services teams to drive Azure modernization and cloud platform maturity.
• Document architecture decisions, standards, runbooks, and operational procedures to support long‑term platform sustainability and audit readiness.

• 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, platform engineering, or related roles.
• 5+ years of hands‑on Microsoft Azure experience supporting production environments across multiple subscriptions.
• Strong experience designing and implementing Azure Landing Zones, Management Groups, Azure Policy, and governance frameworks.
• Proven Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise using Terraform, including modules, state management, CI/CD pipelines, and automation.
• Deep Azure networking knowledge including hub‑and‑spoke architecture, Private Link, Private Endpoints, Private DNS, routing, VPN connectivity, and Azure Firewall.
• Experience with Azure security and identity technologies including Entra , RBAC, PIM, Defender for Cloud, and Conditional Access.
• Strong scripting and automation experience using Power Shell, Azure CLI, and Microsoft Graph.
• Experience supporting disaster recovery, backup, business continuity, and highly available cloud architectures.
• Excellent documentation, troubleshooting, and cross‑functional collaboration skills.

Salary Range: $160,000 - $190,000 + 10% bonus annually depending on experience.

Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, and Sick Leave as required by law.

This job opens for applications on 11/06/2026
. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.

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