Emergent Software

Azure Cloud Architect – DevOps focus

Emergent Software

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Tech Stack

AzureCloud.NETSubversion

About the role

  • Design end-to-end Azure DevOps architectures that support scalable, secure, and cost-effective solutions
  • Define and evolve CI/CD strategies, platform standards, and infrastructure patterns across client environments
  • Architect infrastructure as code solutions that promote reuse, consistency, and safe change management
  • Lead technical discovery with clients to understand business goals, constraints, and risk tolerance
  • Evaluate existing Azure and DevOps implementations and recommend architectural improvements
  • Guide teams on cloud architecture decisions related to networking, identity, security, monitoring, and resiliency
  • Partner with engineering teams to support containerized and orchestrated workloads
  • Establish observability, reliability, and security practices aligned with DevSecOps principles
  • Serve as a technical escalation point for complex and ambiguous platform challenges
  • Mentor engineers and influence best practices across projects and engagements

Requirements

  • Deep experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, or platform architecture roles
  • Deep expertise designing and supporting Azure cloud environments
  • Proven experience defining CI/CD strategies and platform standards
  • Strong background in infrastructure as code and cloud architecture patterns
  • Experience advising clients or stakeholders on architectural decisions
  • Ability to lead technical direction without direct authority
  • Strong communication skills and comfort working in client-facing environments
  • Familiarity with a broad range of Azure services and established cloud patterns (e.g., networking, identity, monitoring, and scalability)
  • Familiarity with IaC principles (idempotency, modular design, reuse, environment parity, and safe change management)
  • Proficiency in Git, SVN, GitOps, and Trunk based workflows.
  • Familiarity with the .NET ecosystem is highly desired
  • Must be fluent in English.
Benefits
  • Medical Insurance: up to 84% of your monthly medical premium (HSA options available)
  • HSA Contribution: up to $200/month
  • Dental & Vision Insurance: up to 50% of your monthly dental and vision premium costs
  • 401(k) plan: company match up to 4% of salary
  • Profit sharing bonus: up to 15% of salary paid quarterly
  • Extra compensation: get paid extra for work over 40 hours/week
  • Employee referral & customer referral bonuses
  • Flex Spending Account (FSA) for Dependent Care & Healthcare Costs
  • Short Term Disability: $500/week for 12 weeks
  • Long Term Disability: up to $6,000/month
  • Group term life and AD&D insurance: $50k
  • PTO, standard holidays, 2 floating holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Staff development program: 100 hours/year plus training costs
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Hard Skills & Tools
Azure DevOpsCI/CD strategiesinfrastructure as codecloud architectureGitSVNGitOpsTrunk based workflows.NET
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationclient-facingmentoring