Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Briljent is seeking a highly-experienced Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer to lead the implementation, configuration, governance, and ongoing management of our enterprise Azure environment. This role is ideal for someone passionate about building and maintaining secure, resilient, and scalable cloud platforms — and who is ready to set the standard for cloud excellence across the organization. Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship. Position is on-site in Mechanicsville, VA 23116; candidates must reside within daily commutable distance.

About the Role

We are looking for a senior-level engineer with deep expertise in Azure’s ecosystem, proven enterprise-grade operational experience, and the ability to provide technical leadership across teams and to management.

What You’ll Bring

• Extensive, hands-on experience with Azure services, Terraform IaC, cloud infrastructure design, security best practices, governance, and operational management
• A strong sense of ownership — someone who embraces complex challenges and sees them through from design to delivery
• The ability to guide, mentor, and cross-train other engineers, fostering a strong engineering culture
• Confidence in communicating technical recommendations, risks, and strategies to management and executive leadership

Responsibilities

• Provide expert guidance on the design, implementation, configuration, and governance of Azure resources, networking, and security policies
• Implement, maintain, and monitor mission-critical cloud resources in a large enterprise environment
• Manage and optimize enterprise backup and disaster recovery operations, ensuring reliability and continuity
• Plan, lead, and execute cloud migration initiatives, including moving workloads from on-premises to Azure
• Collaborate with architecture, security, development, and governance teams
• Provide operational support and troubleshooting for production applications and infrastructure
• Utilize security tools such as Tenable to manage vulnerability remediation and improve security posture
• Build meaningful observability solutions using Azure Monitor, Workbooks, Alerts, and related tooling
• Develop and maintain robust disaster recovery (DR) strategies to minimize downtime and protect critical data
• Demonstrate strong networking knowledge, including OSI model concepts, core network protocols, and network-level troubleshooting

Requirements

• Experience implementing, maintaining, monitoring, and providing guidance on resources & infrastructure in Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Terraform (highly preferred) or other IaC methods (ARM, Bicep, etc.)
• Experience planning and executing migrations from on-premises environments to Azure
• Experience working in mission-critical enterprise environments and implementing backup & DR strategies
• Experience implementing networking and security policies in Azure
• Experience using Azure Monitor for alerting, observability, and dashboards
• Experience with vulnerability remediation & working on security initiatives

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or similar
• Networking certifications such as Network+, CCNA, or equivalent

Success Traits at Briljent

• Consultative Mindset: Listen, stay client-focused, and prioritize needs, goals, and concerns. Customize solutions and encourage open communication.
• Flexible: Be open to change and adaptable to new situations, ideas, and approaches.
• Learning Leader: Seek new ideas, hone skills, and share lessons learned to continually bring your best to clients.
• Impeccable Integrity: Maintain high levels of integrity, honesty, and ethics in all interactions and decision-making.

Physical Requirements

These physical demands must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

• Regularly communicate and remain in a stationary position
• Utilize technology tools such as a laptop computer for extended periods of time

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.