Azure Platform Engineering Lead - DoD Hybrid Cloud

CB5 Solutions LLC.; Colorado Springs, Huntsville, Washington (CO, AL, District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

cb5 Solutions LLC is seeking an Azure Platform Engineering Lead to stand up and own the Azure foundation for a greenfield DoD hybrid multi-cloud program. The role is hands-on, reporting to the architecture leadership, and requires shaping landing zones, governance, and platform services.

You will design network topology, identity integration, and policy-driven control, partnering with AWS and on‑prem workloads.

Qualifications

• Must have 10+ years in enterprise infrastructure or cloud engineering, with 6+ years on Azure.
• 2+ years as technical lead or design authority for an enterprise Azure environment.
• Hands-on experience designing Azure landing zones and governance.
• Experience with Azure Government or sovereign cloud environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, ability to present to senior leadership.
• Must meet DoD 8570 requirements within 60 days and have DoD Secret clearance or eligibility.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for Azure, owning architecture, standards and design decisions.
• Design and build Azure landing zones and subscription strategy.
• Own Azure governance, policy, RBAC, cost management, and guardrails.
• Design Azure platform networking and hybrid connectivity.
• Integrate Azure with program identity architecture and Entra ID.
• Build the platform using Infrastructure as Code and contribute modules.
• Ensure security/compliance baselines, key management, logging and auditing.
• Design monitoring, resilience and recovery, including telemetry and backups.
• Prepare Azure decisions for architecture reviews and align with AWS/on-prem references.
• Support migrations by designing landing zones and platform capabilities.
• Collaborate with platform vendors and customer cloud leadership; communicate clearly.

Skills

Azure architecture

Infrastructure as Code

Leadership

Cloud governance

Security/compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS

DoD 8570 certification (e.g., Sec+)

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

cb5 Solutions LLC is seeking an Azure Platform Engineering Lead to stand up and own the Azure foundation for a greenfield DoD hybrid multi-cloud program. The role is hands-on, reporting to the architecture leadership, and requires shaping landing zones, governance, and platform services.

You will design network topology, identity integration, and policy-driven control, partnering with AWS and on‑prem workloads.