Azure Cloud Engineer

Clark Davis Associates; Parsippany-Troy Hills (NJ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Clark Davis Associates is seeking an experienced Azure Architect to design end-to-end cloud infrastructure, focusing on security, governance, and cost efficiency within Azure.

You will lead deployment initiatives, collaborate with security and engineering teams, and enforce architecture standards across IaaS, PaaS, and networking components.

Qualifications

• Requires 5+ years designing cloud architectures on Azure.
• Proficient in PowerShell scripting and automation.
• Experience administering Entra ID, conditional access, PIM, and passwordless auth.
• Experience with IaC using Bicep or Terraform.
• Strong Windows Server administration and hybrid environment support.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end Azure infrastructure solutions aligned with business and security requirements.
• Lead cloud deployment initiatives and work with security leadership to secure Azure applications.
• Develop and enforce cloud architecture standards, governance, and best practices.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, and software engineering teams to ensure scalable, compliant cloud designs.
• Implement monitoring and observability across Azure using Monitor and Log Analytics; optimize cost and reliability.

Skills

Strong scripting

PowerShell

IAM

Azure cloud architecture

Hybrid environments

Tools

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Terraform

Bicep

Microsoft Graph SDK

Job description

US CITIZEN OR GREEN CARD ONLY

NO C2C, NO CORP TO CORP

MUST HAVE STRONG SCRIPTING, POWERSHELL, IAM

5 PLUS YEARS AZURE

3 DAYS ON SITE

• Design and architect end-to-end Azure infrastructure solutions aligned with business, security and technical requirements.
• Lead cloud deployment initiatives, and work with the Director of Information Security to secure applications on Azure and other cloud platforms.
• Assist in the development and enforcement of cloud architecture standards, governance frameworks, and best practices.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, endpoint, security, and software engineering teams to ensure scalable and secure infrastructure design and compliance of cloud infrastructure systems.
• Optimize cloud environments for cost, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Work with infrastructure engineers to implement and secure cloud networking solutions including VNets, VPNs, ExpressRoute, and hybrid connectivity.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and observability across the Azure estate using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, diagnostic settings, workbooks, and action groups; tune alerting for platform health, performance, capacity, and cost.
• Work with the Director of Security to define and deploy Azure Policy and other initiatives to enforce governance, security baselines, resource tagging, and regulatory compliance; author custom policies and remediation tasks where built-in definitions fall short.
• Minimum 5 years experience designing cloud architecture and contributing to cloud strategy and standards.
• Experience designing and supporting Azure infrastructure (IaaS, PaaS, networking, and identity).
• Experience using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and related tools to monitor and troubleshoot platform health.
• Experience implementing governance and compliance controls using Azure Policy and related standards.
• Familiarity with best practices for securing cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Experience administering Entra ID, including Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and passwordless authentication (FIDO2 / YubiKey).
• Experience delivering infrastructure as code using Bicep, Terraform, or equivalent tools.
• Proficiency with PowerShell scripting and automation, including Microsoft Graph SDK.
• Strong Windows Server administration skills and experience supporting hybrid environments.
• Experience administering Active Directory and Group Policy in an enterprise environment.
• Experience supporting Microsoft 365 services such as Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, and Intune.