Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer

Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer

• West LA location

The Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, security, and ongoing optimization of the firm’s Microsoft Azure environment, supporting mission-critical legal applications and data. This role ensures high availability, performance, and compliance within a secure hybrid cloud infrastructure, working closely with the IT operations team and other functional departments within firm administration to deliver reliable, scalable, and cost-effective cloud services aligned with the firm’s business and client requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the firm’s Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Manage hybrid cloud environments by integrating Azure with on-premises systems and legal applications.
• Administer Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), identity governance, role-based access controls, and secure access configurations.
• Implement and maintain cloud security controls aligned with legal industry standards, client security requirements, and firm data protection policies.
• Deploy and support Azure Virtual Machines, networking, storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Automate infrastructure deployments using preferred Infrastructure-as-Code tools (examples: ARM, Bicep, Terraform) and scripting (examples: PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash).
• Monitor system performance, availability, and cost optimization using Azure monitoring and management tools.
• Support cloud-hosted legal platforms and integrations, ensuring high availability of document management, financial, and practice systems.
• Collaborate with Security, IT Customer Service Desk, and other Functional Department teams to ensure stable and secure operations.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and business continuity initiatives.
• Assist with vendor coordination, cloud governance, and responses to client security audits or questionnaires.
• Engineer and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) workloads in Azure, including patching, hardening, and performance tuning.

• Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field required.
• 7+ years of engineering experience supporting large-scale (400+ users) infrastructure and cloud environments.
• Relevant Professional Certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty, CCA / CCP / CCE / VCP) preferred.
• Strong experience with Azure architecture (compute, networking, identity, governance).
• Experience managing hybrid cloud environments integrating on-premises systems with Azure.
• Knowledge of Citrix to AVD migration and/or VMware to Azure migration preferred.
• Demonstrated experience implementing cloud security best practices in regulated or professional services environments.
• Experience with monitoring, performance optimization, and Azure cost management.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, attention to detail, and ability to work collaboratively across technical and business teams.
• Familiarity with legal technology cloud services, such as document management systems, case management software, and e-discovery tools, is highly desirable.
• Client service driven with a solution driven mindset.
• Understanding of cybersecurity best practices and relevant legal compliance requirements.

Measures of Success

Azure-hosted systems achieve high availability and performance for mission-critical legal applications.

• Cloud security controls remain strong, with successful audit outcomes and no material configuration-related incidents.
• Disaster recovery capabilities are tested and meet defined recovery objectives.
• Cloud infrastructure is cost-optimized and operates within approved budget parameters.
• The Azure environment reliably supports firm growth, legal technology platforms, and innovation initiatives.