Sr. Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer

* This is a hybrid position – candidates local to Richmond/Mechanicsville, VA area only, please

• Our client is seeking a highly experienced Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer to lead the implementation, configuration governance, and ongoing management of our enterprise Azure environment.
• This role is ideal for someone passionate about building and maintaining secure, resilient, and scalable cloud platforms and who is ready to set the standard for cloud excellence across the organization.
• We are looking for a senior‑level engineer with deep expertise in the Azure ecosystem, proven enterprise‑grade operational experience, and the ability to provide technical leadership across teams and to management.
• What You’ll Bring:
  Extensive hands‑on experience with Azure services, Terraform, IaC, cloud infrastructure design, security best practices, governance, and operational management.
• A strong sense of ownership — someone who embraces complex challenges and sees them through from design to delivery.
• The ability to guide, mentor, and cross‑train other engineers, fostering a strong engineering culture.
• Confidence in communicating technical recommendations, risks, and strategies to management and executive leadership.

• Provide expert guidance on the design, implementation, configuration, and governance of Azure resources, networking, and security policies.
• Implement, maintain, and monitor mission‑critical cloud resources in a large enterprise environment.
• Manage and optimize enterprise backup and disaster recovery operations, ensuring reliability and continuity.
• Plan, lead, and execute cloud migration initiatives including moving workloads from on‑premises to Azure.
• Work in partnership with architecture, security, development, and governance teams.
• Provide operational support and troubleshooting for production applications and infrastructure.
• Utilize security tools such as Tenable to manage vulnerability remediation and improve security posture.
• Build meaningful observability solutions using Azure Monitor, Workbooks, Alerts, and related tooling.
• Develop and maintain robust disaster recovery strategies to minimize downtime and protect critical data.
• Demonstrate strong networking knowledge, including OSI model concepts, core network protocols, and network‑level troubleshooting.

• Experience implementing, maintaining, monitoring, and providing guidance on resources & infrastructure in Microsoft Azure —
  Required 10 Years
• Experience with Terraform (highly preferred) or at a minimum other IaC methods (ARM, Bicep, etc.) —
  Required 7 Years
• Experience planning and executing migrations from on‑premises environments to Azure —
  Required 10 Years
• Experience working in mission‑critical enterprise environments and implementing backup & DR strategies —
  Required 10 Years
• Experience implementing networking and security policies in Azure —
  Required 10 Years
• Experience using Azure Monitor for alerting, observability, and dashboards —
  Required 10 Years
• Experience with vulnerability remediation & working on security initiatives —
  Required 10 Years

• Microsoft certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or similar.
• Networking certifications such as CCNA or equivalent.