Job Responsibilities

• Design and maintain cloud architecture, standards, and reference patterns across Azure, Microsoft 365, and hybrid environments

• Develop and mature Azure landing zones, governance controls, workload onboarding standards, and tenant configurations

• Establish reusable patterns for monitoring, identity, backup, networking, resiliency, endpoint management, and support operations

• Support and optimize Microsoft 365 services, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Entra ID, Intune, Defender, and Purview

• Improve cloud and Microsoft 365 operational readiness through monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service management practices

• Define and maintain production readiness standards, including backup, recovery, telemetry, runbooks, and escalation procedures

• Develop and maintain cloud engineering standards, governance processes, and onboarding frameworks

• Reduce configuration drift and improve consistency through automation, policy enforcement, and standardization

• Partner with cybersecurity teams to implement secure configurations, identity protection, endpoint security, and data protection controls

• Build resilient cloud and Microsoft 365 solutions that support security, compliance, and business continuity objectives

• Strengthen cloud cost governance through tagging standards, budget monitoring, reporting, and optimization efforts

• Identify and remediate inefficiencies, unsupported patterns, and opportunities for platform improvement

• Collaborate with infrastructure, networking, endpoint, DevOps, security, and operations teams to deliver cloud initiatives

• Create and maintain technical documentation, standards, onboarding guides, and operational procedures

• Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance, troubleshooting support, and knowledge transfer

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, Microsoft 365 administration, systems engineering, or infrastructure engineering

• Hands-on experience with Azure, Microsoft 365, and hybrid infrastructure environments

• Experience implementing cloud governance, landing zones, monitoring, automation, and operational support frameworks

• Experience with scripting and automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar technologies

• Expertise administering Microsoft 365 technologies including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive, Entra ID, Intune, Defender, and Purview

• Experience designing Azure landing zones, cloud governance frameworks, and enterprise platform standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of identity and access management, conditional access, role-based access controls, and endpoint management

• Experience with cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, DNS, and segmentation

• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, alerting, backup, resiliency, and disaster recovery solutions

• FinOps experience, including cloud cost optimization, reporting, and budget governance

• Industry certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert, Azure Security Engineer Associate, or equivalent

• Experience mentoring engineers and driving cloud platform standardization across large enterprise environments

Certain states require us to disclose the pay range and benefits summary for job openings. For Colorado residents, the compensation range for this position: $113,100 - $154,100. For Washington residents, Illinois residents, New York residents, and Southern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $124,500 - $169,500. For Northern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $130,100 - $177,200. Compensation may vary based on skills, role, and location. Eligible employees at certain levels can participate in a discretionary long-term financial incentive plan, subject to plan participation rules.

Armanino has a robust offering of benefits, including: 

• Medical, dental, vision

• Generous PTO plan and paid sick time

• Flexible work arrangements

• 401K with Profit Sharing

• Wellness program

• Generous parental leave

• 11 paid holidays

For positions based in San Francisco, consistent with the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, an arrest and conviction record will not automatically disqualify a qualified applicant from consideration.  

For Individuals who would be working within the City of Los Angeles, Armanino will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance