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Sr Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Solomons InternationalMechanicsville, VA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 21 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

We are looking for a senior?level engineer with deep expertise in Azure s 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

Core Responsibilities & Required Experience:

  • 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
  • In-depth experience working with other areas of IT such as architecture, security, development, and governance
  • 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 (DR) strategies to minimize downtime and protect critical data
  • Demonstrate strong networking knowledge, including OSI model concepts, core network protocols, and network?level troubleshooting

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves):

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

Required Skills & Experience:

  • 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)

Professional Skills :

Skill NameRequired/DesiredTotal Years
Experience implementing, maintaining, monitoring, and providing guidance on resources & infrastructure in Microsoft AzureRequired10
Experience with Terraform (highly-preferred) or at a minimum, other IaC methods (ARM, Bicep, etc.)Required7
Experience planning and executing migrations from on-premises envrionments to AzureRequired10
Experience working in mission-critical enterprise environments and implementing backup & DR strategiesRequired10
Experience implementing networking and security policies in AzureRequired10
Experience using Azure Monitor for alerting, observability, and dashboardsRequired10
Experience with vulnerability remediation & working on security initiativesRequired10

Skills

Azure
Terraform

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