On-Site Senior Cloud Architect - Azure & Entra ID Lead

Jolera; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Company perks & discounts

Company events & recognitions

Career development

Job summary

Jolera is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead Azure and Entra ID implementations for enterprise clients. The role focuses on production Azure operations, identity hardening, and hands‑on customer‑facing engineering. This is an on‑site role with regular presence required in Troy, MI.

Ideal candidates bring 7+ years in enterprise cloud engineering, deep Azure and M365 experience, and strong communication skills to present designs to CIO audiences. Remote work is not available.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in enterprise cloud engineering
• 4+ years focused on Microsoft Azure
• Deep Azure expertise across IaaS, PaaS, Entra ID, conditional access, RBAC, Azure Site Recovery, and cost management
• Solid Microsoft 365 administration background including Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, and Intune fundamentals
• Comfortable owning enterprise‑scale multi‑factor authentication administration
• Strong written and verbal communication, able to run a design review in front of a CIO
• Located in or near Troy, MI, or willing to relocate; on-site 3–5 days/week

Responsibilities

• Own day‑to‑day Microsoft Azure operations across customer tenants, including IaaS and PaaS workloads, RBAC, conditional access, patching, and cost optimization
• Lead Microsoft 365 and Entra ID hardening, designing conditional access policies for production
• Manage enterprise multi‑factor authentication administration across customer estates
• Coach customers’ cloud footprints with recommendations, designs, and reviews before engineering execution
• Triage and resolve identity incidents, partnering with Endpoint and Identity Operations on threat investigations
• Build cost models, capacity forecasts, and FinOps recommendations for customers
• Serve as technical liaison between customers and Jolera’s Cloud Engineering bench
• Provide on‑site technical leadership during change advisory boards, design sessions, and incident response

Skills

Azure

IaaS

PaaS

Entra ID

RBAC

Conditional access

Azure Site Recovery

Cost management

M365 administration

Multi-factor authentication

Tools

ServiceNow

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph

Job description

Jolera is seeking a Senior Cloud Architect to lead Azure and Entra ID implementations for enterprise clients. The role focuses on production Azure operations, identity hardening, and hands‑on customer‑facing engineering. This is an on‑site role with regular presence required in Troy, MI.

Ideal candidates bring 7+ years in enterprise cloud engineering, deep Azure and M365 experience, and strong communication skills to present designs to CIO audiences. Remote work is not available.