Azure Systems Engineer SME

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Azure Systems Engineer SME

Remote

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Securi Gence is seeking a highly experienced Azure Systems Engineer SME to provide technical leadership and engineering support for Microsoft Azure cloud environments. The Azure Systems Engineer SME will serve as a senior technical resource responsible for the design, integration, configuration, optimization, security, and sustainment of Azure-based infrastructure and services. The position will work closely with government stakeholders, architects, cybersecurity personnel, developers, systems administrators, and other engineering teams to ensure Azure solutions are secure, scalable, resilient, supportable, and aligned with mission and enterprise requirements.

The ideal candidate will possess deep hands-on Azure expertise combined with broad systems engineering experience and the ability to translate mission requirements into practical technical solutions.

• Serve as a senior technical authority and Azure Subject Matter Expert for the design, implementation, integration, operation, and sustainment of cloud-based systems and infrastructure.
• Architect and engineer Microsoft Azure solutions supporting enterprise and mission applications, infrastructure, networking, security, identity, storage, compute, and other cloud services.
• Evaluate existing environments and develop recommendations for Azure modernization, migration, optimization, and cloud adoption.
• Design and implement Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation technologies, including tools such as Azure Bicep, ARM templates, Terraform, Power Shell, and Azure CLI.
• Develop and maintain Azure architectures that incorporate high availability, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, backup, monitoring, and performance requirements.
• Engineer and administer Azure networking services, including virtual networks, subnets, routing, network security groups, private endpoints, VPN/Express Route connectivity, load balancing, DNS, and related services.
• Provide technical expertise in Microsoft Entra  (Azure AD), identity and access management, role-based access control (RBAC), privileged access, authentication, and enterprise identity integration.
• Apply Azure security and compliance best practices using services and capabilities such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Microsoft Sentinel, Key Vault, security baselines, and Microsoft Cloud security controls.
• Support the implementation of Zero Trust principles and security architecture within Azure environments.
• Develop and maintain Azure landing zones, subscriptions, management groups, resource organization, tagging, policies, and governance structures.
• Analyze system requirements and develop technical designs, system architecture documentation, engineering plans, and implementation procedures.
• Lead or support cloud migration activities, including assessment, planning, dependency analysis, migration execution, validation, and post-migration optimization.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, identity, performance, availability, and integration issues across Azure and hybrid environments.
• Establish and maintain Azure monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and related capabilities.
• Support the development and implementation of CI/CD and Dev Sec Ops  practices for infrastructure and application delivery.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to integrate Azure infrastructure with application development, deployment, and automated testing pipelines.
• Develop automation and scripting solutions to improve operational efficiency, system reliability, configuration consistency, and repeatability.
• Evaluate new Azure services and technologies and recommend adoption where they provide measurable mission, operational, security, or cost benefits.
• Perform capacity planning, performance analysis, system optimization, and resource utilization reviews.
• Support cloud cost management, resource optimization, and Fin Ops activities to…