Principal Azure Cloud Engineer

- Design, build, and oversee Azure cloud infrastructure and shared platform services that support digital workloads. - Develop and improve Azure landing zones, subscriptions, networking, identity, and governance consistent with enterprise standards. - Create cloud-native solutions utilizing Azure PaaS services, containers, and managed platforms. - Ensure platforms fulfill requirements for scalability, resilience, performance, cost-effectiveness, and reusability. - Employ DevOps and SRE methodologies, including CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness. - Enable systems on Azure through secure, standardized platform capabilities. - Design and develop cloud-based architectures for diverse applications, incorporating API-driven and event-driven patterns. - Provide support for system patterns, including the orchestration of workflows. - Contribute to reference architectures and reusable components. - Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code utilizing Bicep, ARM, Terraform, or similar frameworks. - Create reusable, modular deployment frameworks that balance self-service options with governance requirements. - Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement across different environments. - Enable consistent deployment of AI-ready environments and services. - Incorporate security-by-design principles across identity, networking, encryption, secrets management, and auditability. - Implement secure service-to-service authentication using managed identities and least-privilege access protocols. - Ensure Azure cloud solutions adhere to security, privacy, data governance, and regulatory standards. - Collaborate on architecture reviews, risk assessments, and audits with security and risk teams. - Design platforms that include built-in observability, traceability, and operational controls by default.