Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer - Hybrid, Growth

Piper Companies; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental and Vision

PTO and Sick Leave

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Microsoft Azure infrastructure supporting enterprise workloads and modern apps. The role is based in Bethesda, MD on a hybrid basis, collaborating with IT Ops, Security, and development teams.

Responsibilities include designing secure networks, implementing IaC, and ensuring disaster recovery and business continuity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of infrastructure, cloud, or systems engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience operating production cloud environments.
• Familiarity with 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.
• 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 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 administration

IaC

Terraform

Azure networking

CI/CD

Security & identity

Hybrid cloud

Azure security

Azure backup

Site recovery

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM

Azure Site Recovery

Azure Backup

Azure SQL

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable Microsoft Azure infrastructure supporting enterprise workloads and modern apps. The role is based in Bethesda, MD on a hybrid basis, collaborating with IT Ops, Security, and development teams.

Responsibilities include designing secure networks, implementing IaC, and ensuring disaster recovery and business continuity.