Principal Cloud Engineer (Azure)

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, United States; at least four full days each week in an hirify.global office

Company

hirify.global is a global investment management firm providing investment strategies and vehicles to clients worldwide.

What you will do

• Design and evolve enterprise Azure platform capabilities, landing zones, shared services, and reference architectures.
• Define standards and reusable patterns for secure, resilient, observable, scalable, and cost-effective cloud adoption.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code, platform automation, self-service capabilities, CI/CD, GitOps, and policy-as-code controls.
• Use Generative AI to automate engineering workflows, operations, incident response, knowledge management, and developer support.
• Guide application teams through cloud migration, modernization, cloud-native transformation, and AI adoption.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and lead governance and strategic cloud initiatives.

Requirements

• 10+ years of infrastructure, platform, or cloud engineering experience, including 5+ years of hands-on Azure engineering and architecture in enterprise environments.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms and leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
• Expertise in Microsoft Azure foundational services, Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, Git workflows, and platform automation.
• Experience with Kubernetes, container platforms, cloud-native technologies, cloud security, identity, governance, and observability.
• Proficiency in Python and experience with automation, AI-assisted engineering tools, or Generative AI capabilities.
• Experience with Generative AI platforms, AI agents, prompt engineering, AI-assisted development tools, or enterprise AI architectures.

Nice to have

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Administrator, or related certifications.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments, including AWS.
• Experience building platform engineering or internal developer platform capabilities.
• Experience supporting regulated enterprise environments and infrastructure for AI-enabled applications.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid workplace model requiring at least four full days per week in an hirify.global office.
• Flexible paid time off.
• 401(k) matching of 100% up to the first 6%, with a discretionary supplemental contribution.
• Health and wellbeing benefits, parental leave, and an employee stock purchase plan.
• Inclusive workplace and equal employment opportunity practices.