Azure Platform Engineer (Azure)

Location: Reston, Virginia, United States of America / Rockville, Maryland area; hybrid work with occasional on-site collaboration.

Salary: $108,006–$183,610 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a global advisory and technology services provider delivering technology and consulting solutions for complex client challenges.

What you will do

• Administer and evolve enterprise Azure environments across multiple subscriptions and management groups, including Landing Zones, Azure Policy, RBAC, and subscription lifecycle processes.
• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, and reusable governed modules.
• Build automation with Azure Automation, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, PowerShell, and Azure CLI for provisioning, compliance validation, drift detection, and remediation.
• Design secure GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines with environment promotion, approvals, testing, validation, and notifications.
• Implement Azure security, identity, access, networking, hybrid connectivity, and compliance controls using services including Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Key Vault, Entra ID, Azure Firewall, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, and Web Application Firewall.
• Own complex production issues through incident response, root cause analysis, corrective actions, documentation, and operational support.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship is required for federal contracts.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Five or more years of hands-on Azure infrastructure or platform administration experience.
• Experience managing enterprise Azure environments across multiple subscriptions and environments.
• Strong understanding of networking, systems administration, cloud architecture, and identity management.
• Practical Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or comparable tools.
• Experience designing or operating CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Ability to diagnose, resolve, document, and prevent recurrence of production issues.
• Availability for a shared on-call rotation and after-hours or weekend change-window support.

Nice to have

• Microsoft Azure certifications including AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400, or AZ-500.
• Experience with enterprise Azure Landing Zones, Defender XDR, Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, SOX, or similar compliance frameworks.
• Automation experience with PowerShell, Python, or C#.
• Experience supporting hybrid Azure and on-premises environments.
• Experience with Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Kubernetes, or advanced data-platform services.
• Ability to use AI-assisted tools such as Microsoft Copilot or GitHub Copilot with human review and appropriate security, privacy, and compliance controls.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in a flexible hybrid environment.
• Direct ownership of an enterprise-scale Azure platform across governance, security, automation, reliability, and cloud transformation.
• Small, highly skilled team with direct influence over architecture and operational decisions.
• Participation in shared on-call coverage, after-hours support, and weekend maintenance windows when required.
• Opportunities to grow into senior engineering and cloud architecture leadership roles.
• All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States; the position is not eligible for new H-1B visa sponsorship.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted directly by the applicant; third-party or bot-submitted applications may be excluded.
• Use of AI tools to generate or assist with interview responses is not permitted, except where an accommodation has been arranged in advance.