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Senior Azure Engineer (Remote)

First Citizens Bank406 open roles

Pay
$140,000 – $170,000 a year
Where
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Work mode
Remote
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12.3% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. First Citizens Bank postings stay open a median of 1 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.5%3 days
  3. 12.3%7 days
  4. 19.3%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 57.8%60 days
This job: posted 5 days ago

First Citizens Bank median: 1 days open

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Overview

This is a remote role open for multiple markets across the United States.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Azure Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and evolution of our enterprise cloud platform. This role requires a senior cloud engineer who combines deep technical expertise with strategic thinking to build highly resilient, scalable, secure, and automated Azure solutions.

As a Senior Azure Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical authority for Azure architecture, cloud operations, platform engineering, automation, security, and governance. You will partner closely with Infrastructure, Security, Application Development, DevOps, Enterprise Architecture, and Business Technology teams to drive cloud adoption, establish engineering standards, and enable delivery of critical business services.

This role requires both strategic leadership and hands-on expertise, with responsibility for defining cloud architecture patterns, infrastructure automation strategies, operational excellence practices, and security frameworks across the enterprise.

Members of this team participate in major incident escalation support and provide technical leadership during critical production events.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Duties & Responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture & Engineering

  • Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-scale Azure cloud architectures that are secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient.
  • Define and govern Azure landing zones, subscription strategy, resource organization, and enterprise cloud standards.
  • Architect high-availability and disaster recovery solutions aligned with business continuity objectives and recovery requirements.
  • Develop multi-region, hybrid cloud, and cloud-native architectures supporting mission-critical workloads.
  • Serve as the technical escalation point for complex cloud infrastructure and platform challenges.

Platform Engineering & Automation

  • Define and lead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) initiatives using Terraform, Bicep, and Azure-native automation tooling.
  • Develop self-service cloud capabilities that empower application and engineering teams.
  • Drive platform standardization through reusable modules, templates, and automation frameworks.
  • Establish engineering best practices for CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, configuration management, and operational excellence.
  • Champion GitOps and Platform Engineering principles across the organization.

Security & Governance

  • Partner with Security teams to establish secure-by-design cloud architectures.
  • Define Azure governance frameworks including policies, management groups, resource controls, tagging standards, and compliance controls.
  • Architect and implement enterprise security capabilities utilizing:
  • Conduct architecture reviews and threat modeling exercises to reduce risk and improve cloud security posture. Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) Azure Key Vault Azure Defender / Microsoft Defender for Cloud Azure Sentinel Privileged Identity Management (PIM) Conditional Access

Azure Core Services

Expert-level experience designing and implementing Azure solutions across:

  • Azure Virtual Networks
  • Virtual Machines
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Azure Storage
  • Azure SQL
  • Azure App Services
  • Azure Logic Apps
  • Azure Functions
  • Azure API Management
  • Azure Front Door
  • Azure Application Gateway
  • Azure Load Balancer
  • Azure VMWare Solution
  • Azure Virtual Desktop
  • Azure Kubernetes Service

Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree and 4 years' experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 8 years' experience in cloud engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 8+ years of relevant experience or MS with 5+ years of relevant experience
  • Experience with multiple cloud platforms is a big plus
  • 10+ years of progressive infrastructure, cloud engineering, or platform engineering experience.
  • 7+ years of hands-on Azure engineering and architecture experience.
  • Proven experience leading enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.
  • Demonstrated success designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms supporting critical business applications.
  • Deep understanding of cloud architecture frameworks, governance, security, and operational excellence.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership across organizations.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present technical concepts to executive leadership.

Preferred Certifications

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
  • Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Terraform Associate Certification

Additional Information

This job posting is expected to remain active for 14 days from the initial posting date listed above. If it is necessary to extend this deadline, the posting will remain active as appropriate. Job postings may come down early due to business need or a high volume of applicants.

The base pay for this position is generally between $140,000 and $170,000. Actual starting base pay will be determined based on skills, experience, location, and other non-discriminatory factors permitted by law. For some roles, total compensation may also include variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other awards as outlined in the offer of employment.

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.

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