Remote Principal Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Required Skills & Experience-7+ years of experience within Azure cloud systems administration and engineering/design
-Advanced knowledge of Azure best practices as it relates to deployment, scaling, data protection, security, and its integration with other Microsoft cloud-based solutions
-5+ years of experience managing Kubernetes clusters and advanced knowledge of how it integrates with other components within an Azure tenant
-Background and understanding of application development pipelines/SDLC and integration with IT Infrastructure
-4+ years of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience with Terraform or Bicep
-Functional understanding of application development solutions such as Logic and Functional apps as it relates to integration with various components of IT Infrastructure
-Functional understanding of Azure Dev Ops & CI/CD

Experience with Power Platform, Azure Dev Ops, Foundry, Copilot, Graph API, Logic Apps, Function Apps Nice to Have Skills & Experience-Bachelor's degree
-Law firm or professional service industry background

Job Description

The Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, under the direction of the Senior manager of Infrastructure, will collaborate with our internal IT teams to design, analyze, and maintain several key aspects within our firmwide cloud footprint. The Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer should be a well-rounded professional who can work well across teams and have excellent time management skills to balance various workloads and responsibilities.

This person will lead efforts to design, architect, advise and implement various workflows and services related to cloud platforms. This person will work to ensure our systems and architecture complies with our security standards, policies, and risk guidance. Duties include the below:

• Act as the technical subject matter expert and sounding board for questions and decisions related to Microsoft Azure and other Cloud solutions.
• Bridge the gap between the IT Infrastructure team and IT Applications team as it relates to integrating application development and IT Infrastructure leveraging primarily Microsoft technologies such as Azure Dev Ops, Power Platform, Graph API, Foundry, as well as new technologies as they are released.
• Ensure that solutions that are built follow vendor best practices for performance, cost, data protection, and security.
• Assist in the development of technology roadmaps, covering lifecycle planning, capacity planning, obsolescence, availability of support, and vendor roadmaps.
• Perform root cause analysis to quickly recover from service interruptions, and to prevent recurring problems in the environment.
• Create and maintain clear documentation on services and applications.