Principal Cloud Engineer
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Job Description
- Own the technical engineering and operational integrity of the Azure platform.
- Define and maintain Azure Landing Zone standards covering Management Groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, RBAC, tagging, resource locks, diagnostics, cost controls, and approved service patterns.
- Lead complex Azure operations and engineering across compute, storage, AKS, App Services, Key Vault, databases, backup, monitoring, and resource lifecycle management.
- Provide technical leadership for Azure networking, including hub-spoke connectivity, VNets, NSGs, UDRs, Private Endpoints, DNS, Azure Firewall, and integration with Palo Alto and Infoblox.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or equivalent platforms, including reusable modules, code reviews, testing, deployment pipelines, drift management, and secure state handling.
- Own platform reliability, observability, capacity, patching, backup, restore, BCP/DR readiness, and continual service improvement.
- Act as the L4 escalation point for major incidents, lead technical RCA and problem management, and ensure preventive actions are implemented.
- Guide and govern vendor resources performing L1/L2/L3 monitoring, fulfillment, troubleshooting, patching, backup, and standard changes.
- Partner with Cyber, IAM, Network, M365, EUC, Product Engineering, Compliance, Finance, and Service Management teams to deliver secure and supportable solutions.
- Lead technical reviews through TRB/architecture governance and ensure new workloads meet security, compliance, cost, operational readiness, and service ownership requirements.
- Drive cloud cost optimization, tagging compliance, consumption visibility, and FinOps recommendations.
- Mentor engineers, establish engineering practices, and communicate platform health, risks, decisions, and roadmap updates to senior stakeholders.