Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Under the direction of the Senior manager of Infrastructure, the Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer will collaborate with internal IT teams to design, analyze, and maintain key aspects within the firmwide cloud footprint. This role leads efforts to design, architect, advise, and implement workflows and services related to cloud platforms, ensuring systems and architecture comply with security standards, policies, and risk guidance. This position can be hybrid or virtual/remote.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Act as the technical subject matter expert and sounding board for questions and decisions related to Microsoft Azure and other Cloud solutions.
• Bridge the gap between the IT Infrastructure team and IT Applications team as it relates to integrating application development and IT Infrastructure leveraging primarily Microsoft technologies such as Azure DevOps, Power Platform, Graph API, Foundry, as well as new technologies as they are released.
• Ensure that solutions built follow vendor best practices for performance, cost, data protection, and security.
• Assist in the development of technology roadmaps, covering lifecycle planning, capacity planning, obsolescence, availability of support, and vendor roadmaps.
• Perform root cause analysis to quickly recover from service interruptions, and to prevent recurring problems in the environment.
• Create and maintain clear documentation on services and applications.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a senior cloud systems administrator or comparable experience.
• 5+ years of experience managing and designing Azure environments with advanced knowledge of Azure best practices as it relates to deployment, scaling, data protection, and security.
• 5+ years of experience managing Kubernetes clusters with advanced knowledge of container technologies and how they integrate with other components within an Azure tenant.
• 5+ years of experience with application development pipelines and integration with IT Infrastructure.
• 4+ years of Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or Bicep.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Azure and its integration with other Microsoft cloud-based solutions.
• Functional understanding of application development solutions such as Logic and Function apps as they relate to integration with various components of IT Infrastructure.
• Functional understanding of Azure DevOps & CI/CD.
• Experience with Power Platform, Azure DevOps, Foundry, Copilot, Graph API, Logic Apps, Function Apps.
• Experience planning and designing cycle projects (feasibility, planning, outline design, stakeholder management).
• Experience as a 'bridge-builder' who establishes relationships between different functional teams.
• Comfortable presenting to large groups and expert at explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
• Self-starter, take-charge, highly motivated, positive demeanor, and able to juggle multiple assignments simultaneously.
• Experience with the legal vertical preferred.
• BA preferred.

Pay

• Palo Alto, New York, San Francisco: $163,200 – $220,800 per year.
• Austin, Boston, Century City, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, San Diego, Seattle: $147,050 – $198,950 per year.
• Compensation may include a discretionary year-end merit bonus based on performance.