Principal Microsoft Cloud Platform Engineer

Envista Dentistry•Brea, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is based on‑site and requires four days per week in the Brea office to support collaboration and business needs. The Principal Microsoft Cloud Platform Engineer serves as the senior technical authority and platform owner for Envista's Microsoft cloud ecosystem. This role owns architecture, engineering, automation, governance, operational excellence, and continuous improvement for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, identity, collaboration, and cloud governance. This is a senior individual contributor who leads through technical expertise, architecture, mentoring, and engineering excellence. The role also serves as the service owner for Microsoft cloud platforms and is accountable for platform strategy, lifecycle management, governance, service health, roadmap execution, and technical oversight of Managed Service Provider (MSP) delivery. The position partners with business, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and vendor teams to ensure Microsoft cloud services deliver secure, reliable, and scalable business outcomes while supporting Envista's platform engineering transformation strategy. Success in this role is demonstrated through stable platform operations, stronger service ownership and governance accountability; improved reliability, user experience, security posture, and operational efficiency; and delivery of roadmap objectives that advance Envista's platform engineering and infrastructure transformation strategy.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
10+ years enterprise Microsoft infrastructure experience
7+ years Microsoft 365 and Azure engineering
Experience in enterprise environments supporting 5,000+ users
Deep expertise with Entra ID, Exchange Online, Azure architecture, governance, disaster recovery, PowerShell, and Infrastructure as Code
Experience partnering with Managed Service Providers
Demonstrated experience establishing platform governance, architecture standards, and technology roadmaps
Experience operating within a platform engineering, cloud center of excellence, or service ownership model
Microsoft Cloud Azure, Microsoft 365, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Entra ID, Defender, Purview, Sentinel, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, and Azure Virtual Desktop
Automation PowerShell, Terraform, Bicep, ARM, Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, and REST APIs
Infrastructure Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, PKI, Networking, Disaster Recovery, and Cloud Governance

Nice To Haves

Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft 365 Administrator Expert, Azure Administrator, Identity & Access Administrator, or Security certifications
Experience with FastTrack, tenant migrations, M&A, enterprise governance, and platform engineering

Responsibilities

Own the Microsoft cloud platform strategy, architecture, engineering, and lifecycle
Serve as the technical authority for Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, Defender, Purview, and related services
Define engineering standards, governance, architecture patterns, and platform roadmaps
Drive automation, standardization, and continuous improvement
Establish platform engineering standards, reusable patterns, and architectural guardrails that promote consistency and operational excellence
Establish clear service ownership and governance accountability across Microsoft cloud services, improving governance, security, and operational maturity
Lead engineering for Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Defender, Purview, and Microsoft 365 administration
Ensure platform reliability, lifecycle management, security, and service improvement
Lead engineering for Entra ID, Conditional Access, Identity Governance, PIM, federation, and authentication
Partner with Cybersecurity to strengthen enterprise identity
Own Azure Landing Zones, governance, networking, RBAC, Azure Policy, Monitor, Backup, Site Recovery, Azure Virtual Desktop, and platform security
Define and maintain Azure platform architecture standards, cloud governance controls, operational guardrails, and deployment patterns
Partner with application, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams to enable cloud adoption while maintaining compliance and operational readiness
Drive Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, ARM, PowerShell, Azure Automation, Azure DevOps, GitHub, and CI/CD
Increase automation and Infrastructure as Code adoption to reduce manual effort and strengthen engineering maturity
Develop reusable automation frameworks that improve speed, consistency, reliability, and scalability across Microsoft cloud services
Maintain reliability, disaster recovery readiness, monitoring, lifecycle management, documentation, and technical debt reduction
Maintain stable Microsoft platform operations and continuously improve platform reliability, user experience, security posture, and operational efficiency
Reduce dependency on external vendors and individual knowledge holders through documentation, automation, knowledge transfer, and engineering maturity initiatives
Serve as primary technical partner for Microsoft and MSP
Strengthen Microsoft and MSP partnerships to support effective service delivery and platform outcomes
Provide technical governance and engineering oversight for MSP-delivered Microsoft cloud services, ensuring alignment with approved architecture standards, operational processes, automation objectives, and platform roadmaps
Deliver roadmap objectives that support Envista's platform engineering and infrastructure transformation strategy
Mentor engineers, conduct architecture reviews, and improve engineering standards