Principle Systems Engineer

Harris Computer; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Harris Computer, a leading technology solutions provider, seeks a Principal System Engineer – Azure to design and operate enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure. You will drive architecture decisions, implement secure and scalable platforms, and lead modernization efforts across IaaS and PaaS services.

The role requires deep Azure expertise, strong IaC skills (Terraform/Bicep), and hands-on experience with networking, identity, security, and observability in complex environments.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems engineering, cloud engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of strong hands-on Azure experience.
• Deep expertise in Azure IaaS.
• Strong knowledge of Azure PaaS services.
• Strong Azure networking fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Entra ID and Azure RBAC.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Strong PowerShell and/or Azure CLI skills.
• Experience with Azure monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing highly available and resilient Azure environments.
• Strong understanding of hybrid Azure/on-premises architectures.
• Experience with production-scale Azure environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to independently drive complex technical problems to resolution.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure across IaaS and PaaS services.
• Own technical architecture and engineering decisions for complex Azure environments.
• Design highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient Azure solutions.
• Lead infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, and platform transformation initiatives.
• Establish Azure infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
• Evaluate Azure services and determine appropriate technology choices based on business and technical requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement of platform reliability, scalability, performance, security, and operational efficiency.

Skills

Azure

Azure IaC

Azure IaaS

Azure PaaS

Network design

Monitoring & troubleshooting

Hybrid cloud

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell/Azure CLI

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Azure Monitor

Job description

Principal System Engineer – Azure

Role Overview

We are looking for a Principal System Engineer – Azure to provide deep technical leadership for designing, building, operating, and continuously improving large-scale Azure infrastructure and platform services.

The ideal candidate will have strong expertise across Azure IaaS and PaaS , with a deep understanding of networking, compute, storage, identity, security, observability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and infrastructure automation.

The role requires someone who can operate effectively at both the architecture and engineering level —able to design the solution, challenge existing designs, troubleshoot complex production issues, and personally drive implementation where required.

Required Technical Skills

Must Have

• 12+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems engineering, cloud engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of strong hands-on Azure experience.
• Deep expertise in Azure IaaS.
• Strong knowledge of Azure PaaS services.
• Strong Azure networking fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Entra ID and Azure RBAC.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Strong PowerShell and/or Azure CLI skills.
• Experience with Azure monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing highly available and resilient Azure environments.
• Strong understanding of hybrid Azure/on-premises architectures.
• Experience with production-scale Azure environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to independently drive complex technical problems to resolution.

Key Responsibilities

Azure Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and operate enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure across IaaS and PaaS services.
• Own technical architecture and engineering decisions for complex Azure environments.
• Design highly available, scalable, secure, and resilient Azure solutions.
• Lead infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, and platform transformation initiatives.
• Establish Azure infrastructure standards, reference architectures, and engineering best practices.
• Evaluate Azure services and determine appropriate technology choices based on business and technical requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement of platform reliability, scalability, performance, security, and operational efficiency.

Azure IaaS

Strong hands-on expertise with:

• Azure Virtual Machines and VM Scale Sets
• Availability Zones and Availability Sets
• Managed Disks and Azure Storage
• Azure Virtual Network, Subnets, NSGs and UDRs
• Azure Load Balancer
• Application Gateway / WAF
• Azure Firewall
• Azure VPN Gateway and ExpressRoute
• Private Endpoints and Private DNS
• Azure Bastion
• Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery
• Azure Monitor and Log Analytics

Azure PaaS

Experience designing and operating Azure PaaS services such as:

• Azure App Service
• Azure Functions
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Azure Container Instances / container platforms
• Azure API Management
• Azure Service Bus
• Event Grid
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure SQL / managed database services
• Azure Cache and other managed platform services
• Azure Storage services

The candidate should understand when to use managed PaaS services versus IaaS , including the operational, security, scalability, availability, and cost trade-offs.

Networking

Deep understanding of Azure networking is highly important.

Responsibilities include:

• Designing hub-and-spoke and enterprise-scale network architectures
• VNet peering and Virtual WAN concepts
• Private Link / Private Endpoint architectures
• DNS architecture and troubleshooting
• ExpressRoute and hybrid connectivity
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