Azure Cloud Architect & Infra Resiliency Lead

ZP Group; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k + PTO

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a hybrid Sr. Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer for a finance client in Bethesda, MD.

You will design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure, leading architecture and day-to-day management across core components. This role focuses on automating provisioning with Infrastructure as Code, strengthening secure networking, and implementing backup and disaster recovery aligned with business continuity goals.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of enterprise infrastructure or cloud engineering experience.
• Expertise in IaC, Azure networking, resiliency planning and security frameworks.
• Hands-on with Azure-native recovery tools and modern app ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and day-to-day management of Azure environments for stability and performance.
• Develop automated provisioning using IaC to standardize deployments.
• Design secure cloud networking for platform services and workloads.
• Implement backups and disaster recovery aligned with business continuity goals.
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams on cloud-native/serverless solutions.

Skills

IaC (Infrastructure as Code)

Azure networking

Security frameworks

Resiliency planning

Serverless architectures

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure Site Recovery

Cloud-native tooling

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a hybrid Sr. Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer for a finance client in Bethesda, MD.

You will design, build, and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure, leading architecture and day-to-day management across core components. This role focuses on automating provisioning with Infrastructure as Code, strengthening secure networking, and implementing backup and disaster recovery aligned with business continuity goals.