Senior Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer | Hybrid & Growth

ZP Group; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

PTO & Sick Leave

Flexible schedule

Unlimited growth opportunities

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions in Bethesda, MD is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Microsoft Azure infrastructure supporting enterprise IT workloads and modern application platforms.

The role focuses on reliability, IaC, and secure network design, with a hybrid work model and collaboration across IT Operations, Security, and development teams. 7+ years of experience and strong Azure expertise are required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, or systems engineering.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience operating production cloud environments.
• Solid understanding of Azure networking, security, and identity concepts.
• Experience supporting backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code in Azure.
• Experience designing secure, private Azure networking architectures.
• Familiarity with Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, and Azure SQL backup models.
• Experience supporting modern application platforms in Azure.
• Financial services or regulated‑industry experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and support Azure infrastructure including virtual machines, storage, backup, disaster recovery, and core platform services.
• Own reliability, performance, and lifecycle management of production Azure environments.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure incidents across compute, storage, and networking (IaC).
• Build and manage Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM, or equivalent).
• Promote repeatable, version-controlled, and peer-reviewed infrastructure deployments.
• Reduce manual configuration and ensure consistency across environments.
• Design and maintain secure Azure network architectures, including Private Endpoints and Private Link.
• Implement hub-and-spoke and segmented virtual network designs.
• Ensure secure connectivity patterns for PaaS and IaaS workloads.
• Design and operate backup, restore, and disaster recovery solutions, including Azure Site Recovery.
• Lead and participate in backup and recovery testing.
• Ensure infrastructure meets business continuity and resiliency requirements.
• Partner with application development teams to support PaaS services and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design secure app-to-service communication patterns.
• Translate application requirements into scalable Azure infrastructure designs.
• Work closely with IT Operations, Security, and external partners.
• Participate in planned maintenance windows and production changes as needed.
• Provide infrastructure expertise during architecture reviews and incident response.

Skills

Azure

IaC

Cloud engineering

Azure networking

Backup/DR

Production environments

Regulated industry

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure Site Recovery

Azure Backup

Azure SQL

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions in Bethesda, MD is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Microsoft Azure infrastructure supporting enterprise IT workloads and modern application platforms.

The role focuses on reliability, IaC, and secure network design, with a hybrid work model and collaboration across IT Operations, Security, and development teams. 7+ years of experience and strong Azure expertise are required.