Azure & M365 Cloud Engineer - Infra & Security

Resource Innovations; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Resource Innovations seeks an experienced Azure and Microsoft 365 Infrastructure Engineer to join our team across multiple locations, including Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and other major cities. You will administer, secure, and optimize Azure and Microsoft 365 services to improve reliability, user experience, and operational efficiency across the organization.

The role requires hands-on experience with Azure compute, storage, networking, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering production services in Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.
• Experience with Azure compute, storage, networking, subscriptions, resource groups, monitoring, backup, and access controls.
• Experience administering at least two core Microsoft 365 workloads, such as Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, or Microsoft 365 Apps.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, role-based access control, administrative roles, groups, enterprise applications, authentication, and least-privilege principles.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, mail flow, federation, permissions, sharing, and hybrid connectivity concepts.
• Experience with PowerShell for Azure or Microsoft 365 administration; familiarity with Microsoft Graph is strongly desired.
• Experience monitoring cloud service health, troubleshooting user-impacting issues, coordinating service restoration, and maintaining operational documentation.
• Clear written and verbal communication with the ability to collaborate across infrastructure, service desk, security, compliance, application, and business teams.
• Interest in sustainability and passionate about making a meaningful impact on the environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Azure infrastructure across subscriptions, resource groups, regions, and landing-zone patterns.
• Administer Azure Virtual Machines, managed disks, Storage Accounts, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, private endpoints, load-balancing services, DNS, backup, and hybrid connectivity.
• Use Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Azure Service Health, diagnostic settings, alerting, and recovery tools to maintain service availability and operational visibility.
• Apply Azure Policy, resource locks, tagging, RBAC, privileged-access standards, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud recommendations.
• Administer Microsoft 365 tenant settings, service health, licensing assignments, usage reporting, and support escalations.
• Administer Exchange Online capabilities including mail flow, accepted domains, shared resources, distribution groups, transport rules, message tracing, retention coordination, and service troubleshooting.
• Administer Microsoft Teams capabilities including policies, calling and meeting settings, Teams lifecycle controls, external access, guest collaboration, and service troubleshooting.
• Administer SharePoint Online and OneDrive capabilities including site administration, sharing controls, permissions support, storage oversight, synchronization issues, and collaboration governance.
• Coordinate Microsoft 365 Apps administration, update-channel decisions, service configuration, deployment support, and issue resolution with endpoint-management teams.
• Administer Microsoft Entra integration for Azure and Microsoft 365, including groups, administrative roles, enterprise applications, managed identities, service principals, access assignments, and least-privilege controls.
• Use PowerShell and Microsoft Graph to automate repeatable Azure and Microsoft 365 administration, reporting, license management, configuration validation, and operational tasks.
• Monitor Microsoft 365 service health and Message Center communications, assess organizational impact, coordinate response, and maintain stakeholder-facing service documentation.
• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams on Microsoft Purview, Defender XDR, data retention, sensitivity labels, DLP, audit, eDiscovery, and security posture improvements while respecting separation of duties.
• Troubleshoot incidents, fulfill service requests, implement approved changes, document root cause, maintain runbooks and diagrams, and participate in escalation or on-call coverage when required.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Azure administration

Microsoft 365 administration

PowerShell scripting

Communication

Security/compliance awareness

Education

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft 365 workload certification

Tools

Azure Monitor

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph

Exchange Online

Teams

SharePoint Online

OneDrive

Job description

Resource Innovations seeks an experienced Azure and Microsoft 365 Infrastructure Engineer to join our team across multiple locations, including Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and other major cities. You will administer, secure, and optimize Azure and Microsoft 365 services to improve reliability, user experience, and operational efficiency across the organization.

The role requires hands-on experience with Azure compute, storage, networking, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and