Remote Azure Cloud Engineering Lead: Architecture & Migration

Premier Staffing Partners; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Premier Staffing Partners is seeking a hands-on Lead Azure Cloud Engineer to guide the Azure cloud strategy, architecture, and implementation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will lead design, deployment, migration, governance, and optimization while mentoring engineers and aligning with security and cost practices.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in cloud engineering with Azure, strong leadership, and experience integrating deployments with CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Five+ years of cloud engineering experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience as technical lead or senior engineer on cloud initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of Azure management tools, networking, security, and RBAC.
• Proven datacenter-to-Azure or cloud-to-cloud migration experience.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (ARM, Bicep, Terraform) and CI/CD integration.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for Azure cloud infrastructure, engineering, and migration initiatives.
• Lead design, deployment, maintenance, and optimization of Azure solutions in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Establish and promote cloud standards, best practices, documentation, and repeatable processes.
• Mentor cloud engineers and ensure consistent technical execution across the team.
• Own cloud governance, Azure Policy, security practices, and role-based access control.
• Plan and execute cloud-to-cloud and datacenter-to-Azure migrations with risk and dependency management.
• Design, write, review, and maintain Infrastructure as Code using ARM, Bicep, Terraform.
• Collaborate with DevOps to integrate IaC into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Provide architecture guidance on scalability, availability, performance, security, and cost.

Skills

Cloud engineering leadership

Technical leadership

Strong communication

Collaboration across teams

Problem-solving

Tools

ARM templates

Bicep

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Premier Staffing Partners is seeking a hands-on Lead Azure Cloud Engineer to guide the Azure cloud strategy, architecture, and implementation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. You will lead design, deployment, migration, governance, and optimization while mentoring engineers and aligning with security and cost practices.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in cloud engineering with Azure, strong leadership, and experience integrating deployments with CI/CD pipelines.