Azure Solution Architect - Cleared (Top Secret)

True Tandem • Tysons, VA

7d • $180,000 - $225,000

About The Position

TrueTandem is seeking a highly skilled Senior Azure Infrastructure Cloud Engineer to deliver enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and platform services for a member of the Intelligence Community. The role designs, deploys, secures, and sustains cloud platforms for mission and business applications in accordance with approved reference architectures, federal security requirements, organizational policies, and cloud engineering best practices.

The position builds and maintains the core Azure infrastructure foundation across the enterprise, working with architects, engineers, developers, and cybersecurity professionals. The environment uses Azure-native services, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Terraform, Bicep, and Azure DevOps, with an emphasis on automation, policy-driven governance, continuous compliance validation, operational excellence, and efficient platform management.

The successful candidate will support Azure governance frameworks, subscriptions, management groups, virtual networking, storage, Key Vault, monitoring, security controls, identity integration, workload migrations, and operational sustainment. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to federal cloud modernization initiatives using secure, scalable, and resilient cloud solutions.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility; a higher-level clearance is an asset.
• At least 5 years of experience supporting Tier II Azure environments, or at least 3 years supporting Tier III enterprise Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Experience designing, implementing, and sustaining Azure enterprise landing zones and core infrastructure services aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and cloud engineering best practices.
• Deep expertise in Azure governance and platform services, including Management Groups, Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Azure Policy, RBAC, Key Vault, Storage, and networking services.
• Hands-on experience designing and supporting Azure networking, including Virtual WAN, VNets, NSGs, private connectivity, routing, and hybrid-cloud architectures.
• Experience administering and supporting Azure Virtual Desktop environments, including host pools, image management, FSLogix profiles, session hosts, and enterprise user support.
• Understanding of Azure security, monitoring, and operational practices, including Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, alerts, diagnostics, and security controls.
• Proficiency in PowerShell scripting and automation for cloud operations, configuration management, and administrative tasks.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code methodologies and tools such as Terraform to deploy and manage Azure resources repeatably and audibly.
• Knowledge of federal cybersecurity and compliance frameworks, including Zero Trust Architecture, NIST standards, TIC 3.0, and government cloud security requirements.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure, networking, identity, performance, and security issues across enterprise Azure environments.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to create technical documentation, operational procedures, and architecture artifacts for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams of cloud engineers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, developers, and mission stakeholders.
• U.S. citizenship is required for positions requiring a government clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Microsoft Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500), Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700), or Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).
• Experience supporting Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, or other classified federal cloud environments.
• Knowledge of Bicep, ARM templates, or additional Infrastructure as Code frameworks.
• Experience supporting cloud migration, modernization, and application transformation initiatives.
• Experience with Power Platform integration in Azure environments.
• Familiarity with AOAI embedded features and Copilot capabilities.
• Knowledge of workload/application migrations and hybrid cloud strategies.
• Understanding of Microsoft licensing models and subscription management.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Terraform Infrastructure as Code solutions for secure, scalable, repeatable Azure deployments.
• Build, enhance, and support automated CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for infrastructure provisioning, application delivery, and operational deployments.
• Architect, deploy, and sustain Azure infrastructure in alignment with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, Well-Architected Framework, and organizational standards.
• Implement and administer Azure Management Groups, Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Policies, and Role-Based Access Control to promote security, compliance, and operational consistency.
• Configure and manage Azure Key Vault for secrets, certificates, encryption keys, and application credentials.
• Design, deploy, and support Azure storage solutions and data protection, backup, recovery, retention, and lifecycle management strategies.
• Architect and maintain enterprise networking solutions, including Virtual WAN, VNets, NSGs, private connectivity, DNS, and hybrid cloud integrations.
• Implement enterprise monitoring and observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, alerts, dashboards, and automated response capabilities.
• Support migration, modernization, and optimization of applications and workloads into Azure.
• Integrate security controls and compliance requirements throughout the infrastructure lifecycle in accordance with Zero Trust principles, TIC 3.0, NIST frameworks, and federal security baselines.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, identity, performance, and security issues across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, cybersecurity teams, and stakeholders to design and improve secure, resilient, mission-focused cloud solutions.
• Develop and maintain reusable infrastructure modules, engineering standards, reference architectures, and operational procedures.
• Participate in platform sustainment, capacity planning, incident response, problem management, and continuous service improvement.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, implementation guides, architecture diagrams, and audit artifacts.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Dental plans
• Vision plans
• Life insurance
• Disability insurance
• Company-paid holidays
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Retirement plan with investment options

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed