Azure Platform & IT Lead — Reliability, Security & Scale

Continuum Solutions; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Continuum Solutions in Houston, TX, seeks a Director of Infrastructure & IT to own Azure, SQL Server, security posture, and internal IT. The role is roughly 80 percent hands-on and 20 percent leadership. You will manage one cloud operations engineer today and build the function from there.

Responsibilities include Azure platform governance, database operations, security/compliance, and incident command to ensure uptime across two product lines and critical integrations.

Qualifications

• Seven+ years in infrastructure, systems, or cloud operations, including two+ leading or mentoring others.
• Hands-on Azure: compute, networking, identity, RBAC, and cost management across multiple subscriptions.
• Strong SQL Server administration—backup/restore, high availability and disaster recovery, and reading execution plans.
• Windows Server, Active Directory and Entra ID, and Microsoft 365 tenant administration.
• PowerShell scripting with automation bias.
• Ownership of production incident response and communicating with non-technical stakeholders during outages.

Responsibilities

• Lead the infrastructure and IT function, including internal IT and endpoint support.
• Own Azure platform governance: subscriptions, management groups, networks, identity, tagging, and cost.
• Oversee database operations for backup/restore, HA/DR, and multi-tenant performance.
• Support security and compliance through patching, access reviews, and questionnaires.
• Ensure uptime and incident response across product lines and EDI, including after-hours rotations.

Skills

Leadership

Azure administration

SQL Server administration

PowerShell

Incident response

Tools

Azure

Azure Logic Apps

GitHub

Terraform

Bicep

CI/CD pipelines

Microsoft 365

Job description

Continuum Solutions in Houston, TX, seeks a Director of Infrastructure & IT to own Azure, SQL Server, security posture, and internal IT. The role is roughly 80 percent hands-on and 20 percent leadership. You will manage one cloud operations engineer today and build the function from there.

Responsibilities include Azure platform governance, database operations, security/compliance, and incident command to ensure uptime across two product lines and critical integrations.