Principal Azure Cloud Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage Azure cloud infrastructure along with shared platform services that facilitate digital workloads.

• Implement and sustain Azure landing zones, subscriptions, networking, identity, and governance.

• Create Azure PaaS, containers, and managed services as reusable platform capabilities.

• Ensure platforms fulfill criteria for scalability, resilience, performance, cost-effectiveness, and reusability.

• Utilize DevOps and SRE methodologies, including CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness.

• Establish and operationalize core platform services and tools for engineering teams.

• Deliver standardized Azure platform capabilities, deployment frameworks, and paved-road solutions.

• Design and manage Infrastructure as Code leveraging GitHub Actions, Terraform, or CDKTF-based frameworks.

• Develop reusable, modular deployment patterns that balance self-service with governance.

• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and enforcement of policies.

• Create foundational automation and tools for consistent and secure Azure deployments.

• Implement security-by-design principles across identity, networking, encryption, secrets management, and auditability.

• Ensure Azure solutions adhere to security, privacy, data governance, and regulatory standards.

• Assist with architecture reviews, risk assessments, and audits alongside security and risk teams.

• Enable observability, traceability, and operational controls through platform guardrails and shared tools.

• Collaborate within agile, cross-functional teams with cloud engineering, data engineering, security, and risk partners.

• Lead large projects and develop horizontal capabilities across the enterprise.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated hands-on experience in engineering solutions on Microsoft Azure within large-scale or regulated environments.

• Strong knowledge of Azure platforming, networking, identity, access management, and governance.

• Experience in designing for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Proven capability to troubleshoot and manage production Azure environments.

• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using GitHub Actions, ARM, Terraform, or similar tools.

• Experience in constructing and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.

• Background in developing reusable deployment frameworks, foundational automation, or internal platform tools.

• Familiarity with IAM models, role definitions, and least-privilege access patterns.

• Experience with Azure API Management or comparable API gateway solutions.

• Understanding of secure service exposure, rate limiting, and API lifecycle management.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Engineering).

• Over 10 years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering leadership, or infrastructure roles.

• Proven track record in delivering and managing Azure environments.

• Experience in designing, implementing, and delivering large-scale Azure platforms.

• Experience in building core cloud platform capabilities, engineering enablement tools, or shared services for internal development teams.

• Experience in leading large projects and collaborating with technology teams and leaders.

• Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation requirements apply.

🏝️ Benefits

• Performance-based incentives.

• Discretionary bonuses.

• Health insurance.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Accident insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Retirement savings plans.

• Comprehensive training and coaching.

• Manager support.

• Opportunities for networking.

• Tools and resources for professional development.