What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer position at Masterapp Labs?
Title: Sr. Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Mechanicsville, VA (Hybrid)
Position Type: Contract
Interview Mode: In-person
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
Core Responsibilities & Required Experience:
- 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
- In-depth experience working with other areas of IT such as architecture, security, development, and governance.
- 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
Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Haves):
- Microsoft certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or similar
- Networking certifications such as Network , CCNA, or equivalent
Required/Desired Skills
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Skill
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Required /Desired
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Amount
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Actual Years of Experience
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Experience implementing, maintaining, monitoring, and providing guidance on resources & infrastructure in Microsoft Azure
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Required
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10
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Experience with Terraform (highly-preferred) or at a minimum, other IaC methods (ARM, Bicep, etc.)
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Required
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7
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Experience planning and executing migrations from on-premises envrionments to Azure
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Required
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10
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Experience working in mission-critical enterprise environments and implementing backup & DR strategies
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Required
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10
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Experience implementing networking and security policies in Azure
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Required
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10
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Experience using Azure Monitor for alerting, observability, and dashboards
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Required
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10
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Experience with vulnerability remediation & working on security initiatives
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Required
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10
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Salary : $65 - $75