Sr. Principal Integration Engineer - Cloud Solutions

The Principal Azure Cloud Solutions Engineer serves as a senior technical authority responsible for designing, implementing, and improving secure, scalable, and resilient solutions on Microsoft Azure. This role combines solution architecture with hands-on engineering to support cloud adoption, application modernization, infrastructure automation, and operational excellence.

As a principal individual contributor, this engineer leads complex technical initiatives, establishes engineering standards, mentors other engineers, and partners with business and technology leaders to translate organizational priorities into practical cloud solutions.

• Design and implement secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective Azure solutions aligned with business objectives and enterprise architecture standards.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve Azure landing zones, management group and subscription structures, resource organization, and PaaS/IaaS Resources.
• Engineer solutions across Azure compute, storage, networking, identity, containers, and platform services; ensuring integration, reliability, and operational supportability.
• Evaluate architectural alternatives and technical tradeoffs, establish reusable engineering patterns, and document solution designs, technical decisions, dependencies, and operational requirements.
• Partner with application development, infrastructure, and security teams to guide cloud service selection, application architecture, and modernization strategies.

• Develop and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment, configuration validation, and controlled promotion across environments.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, updates, monitoring, and routine operational tasks.
• Establish source control, code review, testing, and documentation practices for cloud engineering.
• Create standardized deployment patterns that help teams deliver solutions consistently and efficiently.

• Integrate security into solution designs, including identity, privileged access, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management, and logging.
• Implement governance through Azure Policy, role-based access control, resource standards, and automated compliance checks.
• Partner with cybersecurity and risk teams to address vulnerabilities, remediate findings, and support audit requirements.
• Design and engineer secure connectivity between Azure, on-premises infrastructure, and external services, incorporating private connectivity and network isolation.
• Apply least-privilege access and Zero Trust principles throughout the cloud environment.

• Define observability standards for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerts.
• Lead technical troubleshooting for complex cloud incidents and drive root cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Improve service reliability, capacity, performance, and operational readiness.
• Identify cost optimization opportunities through right-sizing, resource lifecycle management, consumption analysis, and appropriate purchasing models.
• Develop operational runbooks and ensure solutions can be supported effectively after implementation.

• Lead engineering solution reviews for complex or high-impact initiatives.
• Establish technical roadmaps, reference architectures, and reusable engineering patterns.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capabilities across teams.
• Communicate technical options, risks, costs, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with application development,…