Sr. Principal Integration Engineer - Cloud Solutions

Fresenius Medical Care • Waltham, MA

2d • Remote

About The Position

The Principal Azure Cloud Solutions Engineer serves as a senior technical authority designing, implementing, and improving secure, scalable, and resilient Microsoft Azure solutions. The role combines solution architecture and hands-on engineering to support cloud adoption, application modernization, infrastructure automation, and operational excellence. As a principal individual contributor, the engineer leads complex technical initiatives, establishes engineering standards, mentors other engineers, and works with business and technology leaders to turn organizational priorities into practical cloud solutions.

The position covers Azure solution design and engineering, infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD automation, security and governance, reliability and operations, and cost management. The engineer establishes reusable patterns and technical roadmaps, guides cloud service selection and modernization, supports secure hybrid connectivity, and leads troubleshooting and root-cause analysis. The role also communicates technical options, risks, costs, and recommendations to stakeholders and evaluates emerging Azure capabilities through focused proof-of-concept work.

This is a remote position. A bachelor's degree is required; an advanced degree is preferred. The annual pay range is $137,000–$229,000, depending on location and qualifications. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) with company match, paid time off, parental leave, and potential performance-based bonuses. Fresenius Medical Care is an equal opportunity employer.

Requirements

• Extensive infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering experience, typically including 10 or more years in technology and 5 or more years designing and implementing Azure solutions.
• Demonstrated success leading complex enterprise cloud initiatives from design through production operations.
• Deep technical expertise across Azure infrastructure and platform services, including compute, storage, networking, identity, security, and governance.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, managed identities, and privileged access controls.
• Advanced knowledge of Azure networking and hybrid connectivity, including virtual networks, routing, DNS, firewalls, load balancing, and private service connectivity.
• Proficiency with Terraform infrastructure as code and scripting with PowerShell, Python, or Azure CLI.
• Experience with Git-based workflows and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Experience implementing monitoring, backup, disaster recovery, and incident response capabilities.
• Ability to assess technical tradeoffs and balance business needs with security, reliability, operational complexity, and cost.
• Ability to independently investigate and resolve complex technical issues spanning multiple Azure services, infrastructure components, and application dependencies.
• Strong written communication, technical documentation, stakeholder engagement, and mentoring skills.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. The education section specifies a bachelor's degree is required.
• Microsoft Certified: Associate-level certification or higher.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree.
• Hands-on experience with Azure platform services, including App Service, Azure Functions, API Management, and messaging or event-driven integration services.
• Experience designing, implementing, or supporting Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), containerized workloads, and cloud-native application architectures.
• Experience supporting enterprise data, analytics, Microsoft Foundry, or other AI platforms, including their infrastructure, networking, identity, and security.
• Practical experience applying the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Well-Architected Framework to enterprise cloud operations.
• Experience engineering cloud solutions in regulated environments, including implementing technical controls for security, compliance, and audit requirements.
• Familiarity with site reliability engineering (SRE), platform engineering, and FinOps practices.
• Experience designing and supporting shared cloud platform services across complex enterprise environments, including hybrid infrastructure, multiple subscriptions, and organizational boundaries.
• Microsoft Certified: Expert or Specialty certification.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective Azure solutions aligned with business objectives and enterprise architecture standards.
• Design, implement, and improve Azure landing zones, management group and subscription structures, resource organization, and PaaS/IaaS resources.
• Engineer Azure solutions across compute, storage, networking, identity, containers, and platform services, ensuring integration, reliability, and operational supportability.
• Evaluate architectural alternatives and tradeoffs; establish reusable engineering patterns; and document designs, technical decisions, dependencies, and operational requirements.
• Partner with application development, infrastructure, and security teams on cloud service selection, application architecture, and modernization strategies.
• Develop and maintain reusable Terraform infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment, validation, and controlled promotion across environments.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, updates, monitoring, and routine operational tasks; establish source control, code review, testing, and documentation practices.
• Create standardized deployment patterns that help teams deliver solutions consistently and efficiently.
• Integrate security into solution designs, including identity, privileged access, network segmentation, encryption, secrets management, and logging.
• Implement governance through Azure Policy, role-based access control, resource standards, and automated compliance checks; partner with cybersecurity and risk teams on vulnerabilities, remediation, and audits.
• Design secure connectivity between Azure, on-premises infrastructure, and external services, including private connectivity and network isolation; apply least-privilege and Zero Trust principles.
• Define observability standards for metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and actionable alerts.
• Lead troubleshooting for complex cloud incidents and drive root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Improve service reliability, capacity, performance, and operational readiness; identify cost optimization opportunities through right-sizing, lifecycle management, consumption analysis, and purchasing models.
• Develop operational runbooks and ensure solutions can be supported after implementation.
• Lead solution reviews for complex or high-impact initiatives; establish technical roadmaps, reference architectures, and reusable engineering patterns.
• Mentor engineers and strengthen technical capabilities across teams.
• Communicate technical options, risks, costs, and recommendations to technical and business stakeholders; collaborate with application development, networking, security, data, operations, vendors, and other teams.
• Evaluate emerging Azure capabilities through proof-of-concept work and recommend adoption based on demonstrated value.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Potential performance-based bonuses, depending on company and individual performance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal