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# Principal Azure Engineer (Platform & Delivery)

- **Company:** Shree Narayani Networking Solutions Pvt Ltd
- **Location:** Dallas, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $124,800.0
- **Contract:** Temporary to permanent
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Role-Based Access Control, Information Technology, Terraform
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/usd1db34d3ed629e5407d7fd87b9224abd

## About the Role

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

## Description

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


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