Azure Infrastructure Engineer

Corebridge Financial • Houston, TX

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Azure Infrastructure Engineer will design, build, secure, and automate enterprise‑grade Azure platforms. Resource will own core platform engineering across networking, identity, governance, and automation—partnering with architecture, security, and application teams to deliver resilient, scalable, and cost‑efficient cloud services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Information Technology or related field preferred, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years in an Azure platform engineering role designing, implementing, and operating enterprise Azure environments.
• Core Technical Skills: Azure Platform Architecture: subscriptions, management groups, policy, RBAC, cost management, governance (required).
• Azure Networking: VNets, peering, routing, NSGs, Azure Firewall, Load Balancers, Application Gateway/WAF, VPN/ExpressRoute (required).
• Azure Identity & Access Management: Entra ID, Conditional Access, PIM, Managed Identities, Service Principals, Key Vault (required).
• Strong documentation, change management, and stakeholder communication; ability to lead technical implementation and collaborate across security, architecture, and app teams (required).

Nice To Haves

• Automation & Scripting: Terraform/ARM, PowerShell, Azure CLI; CI/CD (plus).
• Current Microsoft Azure certification (e.g., AZ‑104 Administrator; AZ‑305 Solutions Architect; AZ‑700 Network Engineer) (plus).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Azure landing zones aligned to Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), including subscriptions, management groups, policies, RBAC, and cost governance.
• Engineer core services at scale (compute, storage, networking, identity, security, monitoring) with infrastructure-as-code and repeatable patterns.
• Architect and configure vNets, subnets, route tables, private endpoints, network security groups, load balancers, and hybrid connectivity (VPN/ExpressRoute).
• Establish segmentation, ingress/egress controls, and secure connectivity across regions and environments (dev/test/prod).
• Implement and harden Entra ID (Azure AD), Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), RBAC, managed identities, service principals, and Key Vault integrations.
• Define least‑privilege models, approval workflows, and access reviews across platform services.
• Build reusable IaC modules and pipelines using Terraform/ARM, and operational automation with PowerShell and Azure CLI.
• Integrate CI/CD via GitHub/Jenkins for provisioning, configuration drift control, and compliant releases.
• Establish observability with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerts, dashboards; integrate Sentinel/Defender for Cloud for posture management and threat detection.
• Design backup/DR using Azure Backup, ASR; document RTO/RPO; perform failover tests and capacity planning.
• Create runbooks, SRE practices, golden images, and standard operating procedures; drive root‑cause analysis and preventive actions.
• Partner with app teams on networking, identity, and review designs and perform platform readiness checks.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance plans
• Mental health support
• Wellness initiatives
• Retirement benefits options
• 401(k) Plan with a generous dollar-for-dollar Company matching contribution of up to 6% of eligible pay and a Company contribution equal to 3% of eligible pay (subject to annual IRS limits and Plan terms). These Company contributions vest immediately.
• Employee Assistance Program: Confidential counseling services and resources
• Matching charitable donations: Corebridge matches donations to tax-exempt organizations 1:1, up to $5,000.
• Volunteer Time Off: Employees may use up to 16 volunteer hours annually
• Paid Time Off (PTO) days

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree