Azure Infrastructure & Security Engineer

Sr Azure Infrastructure and Security engineer
Pheonix area preferred

Hands on engineer to architect and implement assigned tasks for the KnoxConnect Azure infrastructure and Azure related SOC 2 /Banking audit findings.

40 hours a week

Hybrid 2-3 days a week at clients Phoenix office, remaining days remote. Fully remote is not an option

4 month engagement – option to extend.

Required Skills

• 7+ years infrastructure engineering with 4+ years hands-on in Azure at a senior level; has personally done this kind of remediation before, not just designed it.
• Azure Traffic Manager: has designed and implemented Traffic Manager profiles for multi-region failover in production.
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, and Entra ID (PIM, Conditional Access, service principal hygiene).
• Infrastructure as Code with Bicep or Terraform; comfortable in Azure CLI/PowerShell.
• AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert) or AZ-500 (Azure Security Engineer).
• Knows the Azure portal, Entra ID, Defender, Sentinel, and Azure Monitor / Activity Log well enough to locate and export audit evidence (configs, logs, screenshots, reports) on request.
• Self-directed; takes assigned tasks, tracks them in JIRA to closure, and communicates clearly with a product owner and a software manager.

Nice to Have

• Azure networking depth (VNets and peering, hub-spoke, Private Link, Application Gateway/WAF, NSGs)
• SOC 2 or financial-services vendor assessment experience
• SQL Server on Azure VMs / Azure SQL
• .NET / App Service familiarity
• Cloudflare DNS in front of Azure
• Azure Well-Architected Framework reviews.