Senior Azure Engineer

Location: 100% remote within the United States

Salary: $120,000–$170,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and operate large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure.
• Own the end-to-end cloud engineering lifecycle, including architecture, infrastructure-as-code, automation, and production operations.
• Design and operate Azure Kubernetes Service clusters at scale.
• Implement security hardening, identity management, compliance controls, monitoring, alerting, and observability for distributed workloads.
• Optimize cloud costs and operational reliability for production workloads.
• Partner with application development, security, and SRE teams to deliver scalable cloud-native solutions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• At least 5 years of cloud engineering experience, including 3 years focused on Microsoft Azure in production environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure compute, storage, networking, identity, and platform-as-a-service offerings.
• Production experience with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates and CI/CD using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, and Python.
• Deep understanding of cloud security, identity management, compliance frameworks, monitoring, troubleshooting, communication, and documentation.

Nice to have

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification.
• Experience with hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments spanning Azure and on-premises infrastructure.
• Familiarity with Istio or Linkerd service mesh technologies on AKS.
• Exposure to FinOps and cloud cost-management tooling.
• Experience with HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FedRAMP-regulated environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time direct W-2 employment.
• Remote work within the United States.
• Career growth opportunities within an established technology consulting and software development organization.
• New H-1B visa petitions are not sponsored; U.S. citizens, Green Card holders, EAD holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply.