Senior Azure Infra Engineer: Cloud Modernization

BlackFern Recruitment; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

BlackFern Recruitment is seeking a Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer to lead cloud projects for clients in co-managed IT environments. You will design, deploy, and support Azure-based infrastructure while serving as an escalation point and technical mentor.

The ideal candidate has strong experience designing and supporting Azure infrastructure and enterprise networks, with a solid understanding of cloud security, identity, and modern infrastructure practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, cybersecurity, or related field.
• 5+ years in infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years owning/operating production Azure environments.
• SME-level Azure networking experience: VNets, peering, UDRs, VPN/ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall or NVAs, NSGs, Private Endpoints, and DNS.
• Solid enterprise networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing, DNS, firewalls, and VPN.
• Working familiarity with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Defender for Endpoint/Servers for infrastructure remediation and collaboration with Cybersecurity teams.
• Working understanding of Zero Trust principles and their application to Azure infrastructure, networking, identity integrations, and workloads.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary technical resource for the Azure environment, including subscriptions, management groups, RBAC, Azure Policy, governance, tagging, and cost management.
• Design, administer, and improve core Azure services including virtual machines, storage, Key Vault, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and logging.
• Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning, testing, and execution.
• Manage hybrid infrastructure connecting on-premises systems with Azure and Microsoft 365, including Windows Server, Active Directory, and cloud identity services.
• Lead cloud modernization initiatives and infrastructure migrations using established cloud architecture and landing-zone best practices.
• Monitor infrastructure performance, availability, capacity, and overall health.
• Design and maintain Azure networking environments, including VNets, peering, routing, hub-and-spoke architectures, and/or virtual WAN solutions.
• Manage hybrid connectivity through VPN and/or dedicated network connections, including dynamic routing.

Skills

Azure infrastructure

Azure networking

Hybrid cloud

Infrastructure as Code

PowerShell / Azure CLI

Zero Trust / cloud security

Vendor collaboration

Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Fabric

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / CS / Cybersecurity or related field

Tools

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Policy

Azure DevOps

Job description

BlackFern Recruitment is seeking a Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer to lead cloud projects for clients in co-managed IT environments. You will design, deploy, and support Azure-based infrastructure while serving as an escalation point and technical mentor.

The ideal candidate has strong experience designing and supporting Azure infrastructure and enterprise networks, with a solid understanding of cloud security, identity, and modern infrastructure practices.