Senior Azure Cloud Architect: Landing Zones & Terraform

Motion Recruitment; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer in Philadelphia, PA for a full-time, permanent role with a hybrid schedule onsite Tue, Wed, and Thu. This senior position focuses on Azure platform architecture, cloud engineering leadership, and enterprise cloud adoption.

You will design and land Azure environments, own landing zone standards, and guide cloud migration and AVS/AVD infrastructure decisions, working with a small high-visibility cloud team using Terraform, Terragrunt,

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on Azure experience, building environments from the ground up.
• Azure landing zone design and implementation.
• Terraform and Terragrunt infrastructure-as-code experience.
• GitHub, DevOps practices, and CI/CD knowledge.
• Containers in Azure and strong SQL/database expertise.

Responsibilities

• Design and build Azure environments that support teams across the organization.
• Own Azure landing zone architecture and standards.
• Refine cloud processes and drive cloud adoption across IT teams.
• Serve as the Azure subject matter expert and technical bridge between teams.
• Support cloud migration initiatives and guide AVS/AVD infrastructure decisions.

Skills

Azure experience

Landing zone design

Terraform & Terragrunt

GitHub & DevOps CI/CD

Containers & SQL/DB

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

GitHub

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Principal Cloud Engineer in Philadelphia, PA for a full-time, permanent role with a hybrid schedule onsite Tue, Wed, and Thu. This senior position focuses on Azure platform architecture, cloud engineering leadership, and enterprise cloud adoption.

You will design and land Azure environments, own landing zone standards, and guide cloud migration and AVS/AVD infrastructure decisions, working with a small high-visibility cloud team using Terraform, Terragrunt,