- Develop and maintain infrastructure standards, governance policies, naming conventions, tagging strategies, and environment management practices.
- Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes supporting application and infrastructure delivery, including environment provisioning, approval gates, rollback strategies, and release management procedures.
- Own Azure networking architecture, including virtual networks, private endpoints, VPN connectivity, DNS, network segmentation, and secure remote access.
- Manage Azure RBAC, managed identities, service principals, privileged access, and least-privilege security models.
- Partner with software engineering teams to implement secure coding practices, application security controls, and security-focused development workflows.
- Configure and manage SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, code quality controls, and vulnerability management processes.
- Design and support perimeter security solutions including Web Application Firewalls (WAF), Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, and related technologies.
- Implement monitoring, logging, observability, alerting, and telemetry solutions using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and related platforms.
- Design and maintain high availability, backup, geo-replication, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions.
- Maintain architecture documentation, operational runbooks, deployment procedures, and technical reference materials.
- Provide analytical and problem-solving expertise to evaluate opportunities, decisions, and communicate them to relevant parties within the organization.
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to gather requirements, align priorities, and deliver solutions.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent experience is required.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in Azure administration, cloud engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, or related disciplines is required.
- Experience designing and supporting Azure environments, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise application hosting platforms is required.
- Azure Administrator, Azure Security Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, Cybersecurity, or related industry certifications are preferred.
- Experience with Azure Front Door, Application Gateway, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Azure Bastion, Azure VPN Gateway, and ExpressRoute is required.
- Experience implementing SAST, DAST, vulnerability management, dependency scanning, and application security programs is required.
- Experience supporting and securing modern application architectures, including React, Node.js, .NET, Power Platform, Azure App Services, Azure Functions, APIs, and related cloud technologies is required.
- Experience managing multi-environment deployment strategies and automated environment provisioning is required.
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms is required.
- Strong understanding of Azure networking concepts, including virtual networks, private endpoints, VPNs, firewalls, routing, and security groups is required.
- Strong understanding of cloud security, identity management, RBAC, secrets management, and security best practices is required.
- Working knowledge of software engineering practices, source control management, and application lifecycle management is required.
- Experience implementing Azure Sentinel, SIEM solutions, security monitoring, and incident response processes is preferred.
- Experience supporting AI, Azure OpenAI, Copilot, or cloud-based AI application environments is preferred.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Bicep, Terraform, ARM Templates, Pulumi, or similar tools is preferred.
Core Competencies
Demonstrates expertise in Azure administration, cloud engineering, and DevOps practices, with a strong focus on security, CI/CD pipeline management, and infrastructure governance. Proficient in implementing and managing Azure networking, application security, and automated deployment strategies.
Highest-signal resume keywords
- Azure Administration
- CI/CD Pipeline Management
- Cloud Security
- Infrastructure Governance
- Application Security
Hard Skills
- Azure Networking
- SAST
- DAST
- Vulnerability Management
- Dependency Scanning
- Infrastructure-as-Code
- Azure Front Door
- Web Application Firewall
- CI/CD with GitHub Actions
- Azure DevOps
Soft Skills
- Analytical Problem-Solving
- Collaboration
Certifications & Qualifications
- Azure Administrator
- Azure Security Engineer
- Azure DevOps Engineer
Industry Keywords
- Cloud Engineering
- Cybersecurity
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Application Lifecycle Management
- Identity Management
Tools & Technologies
- Azure Monitor
- Application Insights
- Log Analytics
- Azure App Services
- Azure Functions