Senior Azure Cloud Engineer; Infrastructure

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Location: Hybrid (2-3 days onsite in MA)

We are seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer who will have a hands-on leadership role in driving improvements across infrastructure, collaborating with engineering, security, and DBA teams, and raising the operational maturity of our Azure systems. This individual will serve as the senior technical authority for the Azure environment.

This key role requires strong technical skills and an individual who can understand the needs of our product owners and collaborate with various teams to ensure we continue to deliver world-class solutions to our customers. This position will focus on Azure technologies, specifically compute and database instances, and the associated security and networking around those instances.

In this role, the Senior Azure Cloud Engineer will:

• Focus on Azure operations excellence: incident response, systems availability, cost optimization, and process maturity.
• Act as the technical lead and subject matter expert (SME) for Azure infrastructure operations, setting standards and guiding best practices.
• Design, configure, and maintain Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups (NSGs), Application Security Groups (ASGs), and Private Link/Endpoints.
• Support and optimize Azure SQL Managed Instances and SQL Server on Azure VMs, including indexing, backup/restore, and general database architecture awareness.
• Manage and improve the resilience, scalability, and availability of Azure-based services and systems.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortem documentation for infrastructure-related events.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Security teams to ensure proper access controls, authentication, and authorization mechanisms via Entra  (Azure Active Directory) and related identity technologies.
• Improve operational processes and documentation, ensuring repeatability, clarity, and alignment across teams.
• Monitor and analyze infrastructure costs; identify and implement optimizations to manage consumption efficiently.
• Mentor other Systems team members and help grow operational cloud fluency across the broader team.
• Respond as needed to major incidents 24x7x365.

The appropriate individual will have demonstrated experience in the following:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Building and managing mission-critical Azure cloud infrastructure to support business functions.
• Working with core infrastructure services including compute, networking, identity management, and storage.
• Incident management, troubleshooting complex issues, and writing postmortems.
• Strong communicator and collaborator, able to delegate effectively and inspire highly skilled teams.
• A strong commitment to continuous learning, technological innovation, and career development.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior background mentoring or leading other engineers in an infrastructure or systems capacity.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust, cloud compliance standards, and security models in multi-tenant or regulated environments (SOC 2 Type 2, PCI-DSS, NIST).
• Exposure to cloud-native database platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Synapse); experience with traditional RDBMs is a plus.
• Working knowledge of scripting and automation tools such as Power Shell, Python, ARM/Bicep templates, and Azure CLI.
• Experience in a 24/7 SaaS environment where reliability and uptime are core to success.
• Exposure to other cloud platforms, such as AWS, GCP, OCI, and both public and private cloud environments.

• Seniority level
  
  Not Applicable

• Employment type
  
  Full-time

• Job function
  
  Information Technology
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