Cloud Engineer

ESP Legal; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

ESP Legal seeks a Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer to design, implement, and optimize their cloud environment for critical legal applications. The role includes ensuring high availability and security of systems while collaborating with various teams for seamless operations.

Candidates should have a Bachelor’s Degree, 7+ years of experience in large-scale infrastructure, and relevant certifications. Strong troubleshooting abilities and knowledge of legal technology services will be advantageous.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of engineering experience supporting large-scale infrastructure.
• Familiarity with legal technology services is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience in regulated or professional services environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Manage hybrid cloud environments integrating Azure with on-premises systems.
• Support cloud-hosted legal platforms ensuring high availability.

Skills

Azure architecture

Troubleshooting skills

Cloud security best practices

Collaboration across teams

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in a related field

Tools

Azure

PowerShell

Terraform

Job description

The Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, security, and ongoing optimization of the firm’s Microsoft Azure environment, supporting mission-critical legal applications and data. This role ensures high availability, performance, and compliance within a secure hybrid cloud infrastructure, working closely with the IT operations team and other functional departments within firm administration to deliver reliable, scalable, and cost-effective cloud services aligned with the firm’s business and client requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the firm’s Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Manage hybrid cloud environments by integrating Azure with on-premises systems and legal applications.
• Administer Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), identity governance, role‑based access controls, and secure access configurations.
• Implement and maintain cloud security controls aligned with legal industry standards, client security requirements, and firm data protection policies.
• Deploy and support Azure Virtual Machines, networking, storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Automate infrastructure deployments using preferred Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (examples: ARM, Bicep, Terraform) and scripting (examples: PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash).
• Monitor system performance, availability, and cost optimization using Azure monitoring and management tools.
• Support cloud‑hosted legal platforms and integrations, ensuring high availability of document management, financial, and practice systems.
• Collaborate with Security, IT Customer Service Desk, and other Functional Department teams to ensure stable and secure operations.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and business continuity initiatives.
• Assist with vendor coordination, cloud governance, and responses to client security audits or questionnaires.
• Engineer and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) workloads in Azure, including patching, hardening, and performance tuning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field required.
• 7+ years of engineering experience supporting large‑scale (400+ users) infrastructure and cloud environment.
• Relevant Professional Certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty, CCA, CCP, CCE, VCP) preferred.
• Strong experience with Azure architecture (compute, networking, identity, governance).
• Experience managing hybrid cloud environments integrating on‑premises systems with Azure.
• Knowledge of Citrix to AVD migration and/or VMware to Azure migration preferred.
• Demonstrated experience implementing cloud security best practices in regulated or professional services environment.
• Experience with monitoring, performance optimization, and Azure cost management.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, attention to detail, and ability to work collaboratively across technical and business teams.
• Familiarity with legal technology cloud services, such as document management systems, case management software, and e‑discovery tools, is highly desirable.
• Client service driven with a solution‑driven mindset.
• Understanding of cybersecurity best practices and relevant legal compliance requirements.

Measures of Success

• Azure-hosted systems achieve high availability and performance for mission‑critical legal applications.
• Cloud security controls remain strong, with successful audit outcomes and no material configuration‑related incidents.
• Disaster recovery capabilities are tested and meet defined recovery objectives.
• Cloud infrastructure is cost‑optimized and operates within approved budget parameters.
• The Azure environment reliably supports firm growth, legal technology platforms, and innovation initiatives.