Senior Azure Platform Engineer & Automation Lead

Make Your Move; United States; On-site; USD 138,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

FSA/HSA

401(k) matching

Tuition reimbursement

Employee referral program

Annual holiday reception

Summer family outing

Job summary

Salem Five is seeking a senior hands-on engineer to lead cloud and infrastructure efforts in the Salem, MA office. You will own Azure platform services, Entra ID, Windows Server, AD, and SQL services while shaping automation, security, and disaster recovery strategies.

The role requires 8+ years in systems and cloud, 5+ years with Azure, and strong scripting/automation capabilities. Collaboration with IT leadership and vendors is essential in a regulated financial services setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field and/or 8+ years related experience and training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in systems, cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering, including 5+ years hands-on with Microsoft Azure.
• Deep knowledge of Azure and Microsoft infrastructure including Entra ID, Active Directory, Windows Server, DNS, Group Policy, certificates, Microsoft 365 integration, networking, storage, compute, Key Vault, and identity concepts.
• Strong PowerShell, scripting, API, and automation experience.
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or Bicep/ARM, source control, and peer-reviewed deployment practices.
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or comparable configuration-management tooling; Chef/Puppet preferred.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or comparable CI/CD automation.
• Strong knowledge of Windows/Linux, virtualization, enterprise storage, containers, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience; Rubrik strongly preferred.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as senior hands-on engineer and escalation point for complex cloud, infrastructure, and production issues.
• Design, implement, and operate Azure platform services including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, and shared services.
• Develop reusable platform standards and automation using Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, scripting, APIs, and CI/CD.
• Provide technical ownership for Entra ID, Active Directory, Windows Server, DNS, Group Policy, certificates/PKI, Microsoft 365 integration, Azure Virtual Desktop, Key Vault, and SQL platform services.
• Lead enterprise backup, recovery, retention, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience engineering and testing.
• Manage lifecycle, availability, capacity, performance, patching, security, and technical currency of cloud and on-premises platforms.
• Evaluate emerging cloud, automation, AI, and platform-engineering capabilities based on security, maturity, cost, value, and supportability.
• Collaborate with IT leadership, business partners, technology teams, and vendors; support budgeting, licensing, capacity planning, vendor management, cloud cost optimization, ITSM, and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Azure experience

PowerShell

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Windows/Linux

Documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Bicep/ARM

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Puppet/Chef/Ansible

Job description

Salem Five is seeking a senior hands-on engineer to lead cloud and infrastructure efforts in the Salem, MA office. You will own Azure platform services, Entra ID, Windows Server, AD, and SQL services while shaping automation, security, and disaster recovery strategies.

The role requires 8+ years in systems and cloud, 5+ years with Azure, and strong scripting/automation capabilities. Collaboration with IT leadership and vendors is essential in a regulated financial services setting.