Senior Cloud Engineer

World Wildlife Fund

14d

About The Position

Every day, WWF's conservation teams across the globe rely on robust, secure cloud infrastructure to protect wildlife, engage communities, and drive climate action. As our Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll be the foundational force ensuring our technology systems enable this global impact by managing mission-critical infrastructure that directly supports conservation programs. In this position, you'll directly enable WWF-US and our network of Country Offices across South America, Central America, Africa, and Asia to operate seamlessly. Your work ensures that critical systems stay online so our teams can focus on what matters most: protecting nature at scale.

Requirements

• Ability to Multitask: Demonstrates strong technical and operational agility, effectively navigating complex business and cloud environments to deliver tailored, high-quality support across WWF’s Azure and multi-cloud platforms.
• Solution-Oriented and Strategic Collaboration: Clear, influential communicator who leads projects end-to-end, ensuring alignment, transparency, and active engagement with stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams.
• Growth Mindset: Demonstrates a strong growth mindset, continually expanding expertise in evolving cloud, automation, and security technologies and applying new knowledge to strengthen WWF’s technical capabilities.
• Big Picture Thinking: Strategic acumen complemented by robust technical proficiency.
• Collaborative: Proven ability to work effectively as part of a team.
• Project Management: Strong organizational, documentation, and project management capabilities, including development of comprehensive project plans.
• Degree in IT or related field AND minimum of 8 years of work experience (including at least 6 years of experience in IT).
• Verbal and written fluency in English and Spanish.
• Experience managing large-scale enterprise IT systems.
• Extensive hands-on experience managing highly available and resilient Azure production systems.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Azure services, cloud architecture, cloud networking, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, and Windows and Linux servers.
• Proficient in managing Windows domains and Active Directory.
• Expertise in using PowerShell and Graph API for Azure management, workflow automation, and deployment orchestration.
• Familiarity with provisioning and managing access for technologies such as Fabric, Power BI, and Azure Foundry.
• Experience integrating Microsoft Copilot for M365, Copilot Studio, and Copilot Agents into enterprise Azure/M365 environments, including configuration and governance of data access controls.
• Significant expertise in building, deploying, and managing virtual machines in Azure from inception.
• History of applying structured thinking to diagnose complex cloud or hybrid system issues and develop scalable, sustainable solutions.
• Well-honed methodologies for diagnosing and troubleshooting technical issues.
• Broad enterprise scale expertise across infrastructure, Azure cloud architecture, identity and access management with Entra ID, and emerging AI‑driven‑automation technologies—enabling the evaluation and recommendation of modernization opportunities, security improvements, and strategic technology replacements.
• Skills in configuring Microsoft Entra tenants and domains, including DNS and VNET setup.
• Committed to building and strengthening a culture of inclusion within and across teams.
• Identifies and aligns with WWF’s core values: COURAGE, INTEGRITY, RESPECT, COLLABORATION.

Responsibilities

• Own Our Azure Infrastructure: Architect WWF's Azure environment, spinning up subscriptions, provisioning resources, and building/deploying VMs (Windows, SQL, Red Hat, firewalls) from the ground up in both production and staging.
• Lock Down Security & Identity: Configure Microsoft Entra tenants, manage SSO through Azure Enterprise Apps, and maintain clean and secure RBAC and user groups. Proactively patch systems and use PowerShell + Graph API to automate tasks.
• Be Our Safety Net: Design backup strategies and disaster recovery playbooks.
• Keep Everything Connected: Troubleshoot networking across VNETs, sites, and tenants, including firewalls, load balancers, and DNS (Azure + Cloudflare).
• Be the Go-To Expert: Handle complex Azure, Entra ID, or M365 issues, lead projects end-to-end, and keep stakeholders informed.
• Show Up When It Counts: Occasional after-hours or weekend work for critical outages or planned maintenance.

What This Job Offers

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