System Engineer

Systems Engineer - Azure

As an Azure Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the firm’s Microsoft Azure cloud environment. You will play a key role in ensuring high availability, security, and performance of legal applications and infrastructure, enabling the firm’s ongoing growth and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage the firm’s Azure cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security.
• Integrate Azure with on-premises systems and legal applications in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Administer Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), including identity governance, access controls, and security configurations.
• Implement cloud security controls aligned with industry standards and legal compliance.
• Support Azure Virtual Machines, networking, storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Automate infrastructure deployment and management using Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, ARM, or Bicep, along with scripting languages like PowerShell and Azure CLI.
• Monitor performance, optimize costs, and ensure system availability with Azure management tools.
• Support cloud-hosted legal platforms, ensuring high availability of document management, practice management, and financial systems.
• Collaborate with security and IT teams to maintain secure, compliant operations.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and business continuity efforts.
• Assist with vendor coordination, cloud governance, and client security audits.
• Engineer and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) workloads in Azure, including patching, hardening, and performance tuning.

Requirements

Must-Have Qualifications

• 5 years of experience supporting large-scale infrastructure and cloud environments.
• Hands-on experience managing hybrid cloud environments, integrating on-premises systems with Azure.
• Relevant professional certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty) preferred.
• Strong security experience, especially in regulated or professional services environments.
• Familiarity with monitoring, performance optimization, and Azure cost management tools.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Experience with Citrix to Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) migrations or VMware to Azure migrations.
• Knowledge of legal technology cloud services such as document management and e-discovery platforms.
• Experience supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) workloads in Azure.