Azure Lead Engineer

Intellias; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible schedule

Quarterly upfront bonus

Birthday celebrations

Coursera/O'Reilly/Udemy accounts

Language training

Job summary

Intellias is seeking an Azure Lead Engineer to own the technical direction of a large Azure-based platform. You will drive Landing Zones, governance, security, networking, automation, reliability and FinOps, collaborating with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product and Operations to deliver a secure and scalable cloud environment.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, mentoring, design reviews and cross-team coordination to ensure audit-ready evidence and documented exception handling

Qualifications

• Five or more years in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering with hands-on Azure experience.
• Proven design and operation of enterprise Azure platforms and Landing Zones.
• Strong knowledge of Azure Governance, Policy, Entra ID, RBAC, Monitoring and cost control.

Responsibilities

• Own the Azure technical roadmap and reference architectures.
• Lead architecture reviews and decision making; communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Mentor engineers and reduce SME dependency.
• Design, evolve and operate enterprise Azure Landing Zones, governance and security.
• Implement policy-driven governance, RBAC, privileged access, tagging, and monitoring.
• Partner with Security, Architecture and Compliance teams to remediate risks and maintain audit-ready evidence.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code and automated lifecycle management with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build self-service subscription and platform capabilities with clear product interfaces and ownership.
• Control configuration drift, improve repeatability and minimise manual work.
• Establish observability, operational readiness, backup/recovery and incident-management standards.
• Lead complex troubleshooting and cost optimisation efforts.

Skills

Azure expertise

IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Security governance

Leadership

Python/PowerShell

Cloud platforms

Monitoring analytics

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Git

Job description

The Azure Lead Engineer owns the technical direction and engineering quality of Cloud Hub’s enterprise Azure platform. This is a hands‑on leadership role spanning Azure Landing Zones, governance, security, networking, automation, reliability and cost management. The role works across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product and Operations to provide a secure, scalable and governed Azure platform for approved and documented exception use cases in alignment with enterprise architecture standards.Our client is a large global enterprise operating across multiple markets, with a complex technology landscape and a strong focus on digital transformation and innovation. The organization is actively investing in modern cloud, data, and AI capabilities to enable scalable, secure, and highly automated solutions across its business.

Responsibilities

• Platform strategy and technical leadershipOwn the Azure technical roadmap, reference architectures, standards and reusable implementation patterns.
• Lead architecture and design reviews; make pragmatic technical decisions and communicate trade-offs clearly.
• Mentor engineers, strengthen peer review and reduce dependency on individual subject‑matter experts.
• Landing Zones, governance and securityDesign, evolve and operate enterprise Azure Landing Zones, including management groups, subscriptions, identity, policy, shared services and workload guardrails.
• Implement policy‑driven governance, RBAC, privileged access, tagging, compliance monitoring and security‑by‑design controls.
• Partner with Security, Architecture and Compliance teams to remediate risks and maintain audit‑ready evidence.
• Automation and platform engineeringDrive Infrastructure as Code and automated lifecycle management using approved enterprise tooling, Git and CI/CD pipelines.
• Build self‑service subscription and platform capabilities with clear product interfaces, documentation and operational ownership.
• Control configuration drift, improve repeatability and minimise manual operational work.
• Reliability, operations and optimisationEstablish observability, operational readiness, backup/recovery and incident‑management standards.
• Lead complex troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis and engineering improvements arising from incidents and problems.
• Optimise resilience, performance and cost through capacity management, FinOps practices and measurable service outcomes.
• Delivery and stakeholder leadershipTranslate strategy into a prioritised backlog; identify dependencies, risks, owners and escalation paths.
• Coordinate delivery across squads and stakeholders while maintaining architecture, security and engineering quality.
• Represent Cloud Hub in Azure decisions and explain technical recommendations to both engineering and business audiences.

QualificationsRequired Expertise

• Five or more years in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps or SRE, including at least three years of hands‑on Azure experience.
• Proven design and operation of enterprise, multi‑subscription Azure platforms and Landing Zones.
• Strong knowledge of management groups, Azure Policy, Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC/PIM, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and cost controls.
• Strong Azure networking experience: hub‑and‑spoke or Virtual WAN, VNets, routing, DNS, NSGs, Private Endpoints, firewalls and ExpressRoute/VPN.
• Production experience with IaC tools, Git‑based delivery, CI/CD and scripting such as Python or PowerShell.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring, stakeholder influence and delivery in a global enterprise environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert; Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Security Engineer Associate.
• Experience with multi‑cloud environments, platform‑product operating models, SRE practices and organisational change.

Perks and Benefits:

• Flexible work schedule.
• Fixed financial bonus issued upfront on a quarterly basis, covering the average market price of private medical care and sport card - B2B contract.
• Present on the occasion of birthday, wedding, child birth.
• E-learning accounts for Coursera, O'Relly, Udemy.
• Corporate language school.