azure Infrastructure Engineer

Job Title: Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Jersey City, NY
Employment Type: Contract

Experience: 5–10+ years

Industry: Financial Services / Banking

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Azure Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, maintain, and optimize secure and highly available cloud infrastructure for a financial-services environment. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure, networking, security, automation, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code, along with an understanding of the regulatory and security requirements applicable to financial institutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and manage Azure infrastructure across production, non-production, and disaster-recovery environments.
• Deploy and administer Azure Virtual Machines, VNets, Subnets, NSGs, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, and Private Endpoints.
• Implement highly available and resilient infrastructure supporting business-critical financial applications.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, patching, and operational processes using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage Azure networking, DNS, routing, connectivity, and hybrid integration with on-premises data centers.
• Implement Azure security controls including Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Managed Identities, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, and Microsoft Sentinel.
• Configure and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and performance management using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
• Design and support backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and failover solutions using appropriate Azure services.
• Implement governance standards including resource organization, tagging, policies, access controls, and cost management.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, security, and performance issues in production environments.
• Participate in incident, problem, and change management processes in accordance with financial-services operational standards.
• Collaborate with application, security, DevOps, network, database, and compliance teams.
• Maintain infrastructure documentation, architecture diagrams, runbooks, and operational procedures.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, with significant hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure.
• Strong knowledge of Azure networking, compute, storage, identity, security, and monitoring.
• Experience with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
• Strong scripting/automation skills using PowerShell and/or Azure CLI.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions and CI/CD practices.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, VPN, firewalls, routing, load balancing, and hybrid networking.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Key Vault, Azure Policy, and managed identities.
• Experience supporting Windows and/or Linux workloads in Azure.
• Knowledge of high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity concepts.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience working in enterprise environments with strict security and change-management requirements.

Financial Services Experience

Candidates with experience supporting banking, financial services, payments, insurance, or other highly regulated environments are preferred.

Knowledge of the following is highly desirable:

• PCI DSS
• SOC 2
• ISO 27001
• FFIEC / financial-services security controls
• Data encryption and key-management practices
• Segregation of duties and least-privilege access
• Audit logging and regulatory compliance
• Production change and release controls
• Data protection and business continuity requirements

Preferred Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field is preferred.

Key Competencies

• Cloud infrastructure architecture
• Azure administration
• Azure networking and security
• Infrastructure as Code
• Automation and DevOps
• High availability and disaster recovery
• Production support
• Risk and compliance awareness
• Incident and problem management
• Strong communication and collaboration skills