Principal Azure Engineer (Platform & Delivery)

Candidate must active LinkedIn. What You’ll Do Lead end-to-end Azure initiatives (design build deployment handoff) Serve as the technical lead when no PM is assigned Design scalable, high-availability Azure architectures (networking, storage, identity, compute) Drive cloud migration & modernization efforts Implement governance, RBAC, and security controls (Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy) Optimize CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) Coordinate across infra, security, networking & app teams Mentor engineers and establish best practices

Deep Azure infrastructure experience (VMs, AKS, VNETs, NSGs, Entra ID) Strong IaC experience (Terraform, ARM templates) Azure networking architecture expertise Experience with enterprise cloud migrations Monitoring & observability implementation Ability to lead/influence without formal authority Nice to Have Experience in regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC2, HITRUST, etc.) Azure Cost Management / FinOps exposure ITSM knowledge Qualifications 10+ years IT experience 5+ years in senior/principal Azure engineering roles Proven experience leading enterprise-scale Azure initiatives