Senior Azure Engineer

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🌲 North Carolina – Remote

🌲 North Carolina – Remote

💵 $140k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

☁️ Cloud Engineer

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First Citizens Bank is a comprehensive financial institution offering a wide range of services to individuals, families, businesses, and nonprofits. Their offerings include personal and commercial banking services, loans, mortgages, investment solutions, and insurance products. Known for their commitment to customer service and financial expertise, the bank serves a variety of sectors including agribusiness, healthcare, and manufacturing, ensuring tailored financial solutions for their clients.

📋 Description

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-scale Azure cloud architectures that are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient • Define and govern Azure landing zones, subscription strategy, resource organization, and enterprise cloud standards • Architect high-availability and disaster recovery solutions aligned with business continuity objectives and recovery requirements • Develop multi-region, hybrid cloud, and cloud-native architectures supporting mission-critical workloads • Serve as the technical escalation point for complex cloud infrastructure and platform challenges • Define and lead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives using Terraform, Bicep, and Azure-native automation tooling • Develop self-service cloud capabilities for application and engineering teams • Drive platform standardization through reusable modules, templates, and automation frameworks • Establish engineering best practices for CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, configuration management, and operational excellence • Champion GitOps and Platform Engineering principles across the organization • Partner with Security teams to establish secure-by-design cloud architectures • Define Azure governance frameworks including policies, management groups, resource controls, tagging standards, and compliance controls • Architect and implement enterprise security capabilities • Conduct architecture reviews and threat modeling exercises • Partner with Infrastructure, Security, Application Development, DevOps, Enterprise Architecture, and Business Technology teams to drive cloud adoption and enable critical business services • Participate in major incident escalation support and provide technical leadership during critical production events • Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across organizations

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 4 years’ experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 8 years’ experience in cloud engineering • 8+ years of relevant experience or MS with 5+ years of relevant experience (preferred) • 10+ years of progressive infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform engineering experience (preferred) • 7+ years of hands-on Azure engineering and architecture experience (preferred) • Proven experience leading enterprise cloud transformation initiatives • Demonstrated success designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms supporting critical business applications • Deep understanding of cloud architecture frameworks, governance, security, and operational excellence • Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership across organizations • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present technical concepts to executive leadership • Expert-level experience with Azure Virtual Networks, Virtual Machines, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Azure App Services, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Functions, Azure API Management, Azure Front Door, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, Azure VMware Solution, and Azure Virtual Desktop • Experience with Terraform, Bicep, Azure-native automation tooling, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, configuration management, GitOps, and Platform Engineering principles • Experience with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Azure Key Vault, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Sentinel, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and Conditional Access • Preferred certifications: Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert; Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert; Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert; Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate; Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA); Terraform Associate Certification • Experience with multiple cloud platforms is a big plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other awards may be included in total compensation • Competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program

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