Senior Azure Cloud Architect & Platform Engineer

Five Rivers IT Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Five Rivers IT Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Systems Administrator in New York, NY to lead Azure infrastructure design, deployment, and optimization across corporate and hospitality environments.

The role emphasizes governance, security, and scalable architectures aligned with CAF and Well-Architected practices, including Cosmos-level monitoring and cost controls. The candidate will manage Azure services, networking, identity, and DevOps pipelines, ensuring reliable operations and rapid

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in Azure Cloud Engineering or related field.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Azure infrastructure, networking, identity, security, and governance.
• Experience building and maintaining IaC with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates; CI/CD with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, maintain, and improve Cipriani’s Azure cloud infrastructure across environments.
• Manage and optimize Azure services and security controls per CAF and Well-Architected framework.
• Define compute, networking, and storage patterns including VMs, AKS, App Services, and OpenAI/Copilot readiness.
• Lead cloud governance via Entra ID, RBAC, policy, tagging, and cost management.
• Develop and maintain runbooks, diagrams, and documentation; support incident response and post-incident reviews.

Skills

Azure expertise

Cloud governance

Identity & access (Azure AD Entra)

Security & compliance

Incident response

CI/CD practices

Observability & monitoring

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Bash

Python

Datadog

Application Insights

Job description

Five Rivers IT Inc. is seeking a Senior Cloud Systems Administrator in New York, NY to lead Azure infrastructure design, deployment, and optimization across corporate and hospitality environments.

The role emphasizes governance, security, and scalable architectures aligned with CAF and Well-Architected practices, including Cosmos-level monitoring and cost controls. The candidate will manage Azure services, networking, identity, and DevOps pipelines, ensuring reliable operations and rapid