Sr. Engineer - Azure

AHEAD builds platforms for digital business. By weaving together advances in cloud infrastructure, automation and analytics, and software delivery, we help enterprises deliver on the promise of digital transformation.   At AHEAD, we prioritize creating a culture of belonging, where all perspectives and voices are represented, valued, respected, and heard. We create spaces to empower everyone to speak up, make change, and drive the culture at AHEAD.    We are an equal opportunity employer, and do not discriminate based on an individual's race, national origin, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, marital status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law, whether actual or perceived.    We embrace all candidates that will contribute to the diversification and enrichment of ideas and perspectives at AHEAD. 

We are seeking an Azure Engineer to deliver planned engineering services across clients’ existing Azure environments. This role reviews and tunes configurations, assesses the supportability of planned deployments, and helps clients prepare for Azure product changes and future improvements. 

You will work with the Client Success Manager and client stakeholders to prioritize work, estimate effort, document findings, and perform approved changes. You will also serve as a support engineer for cases within your designated product specialty, providing technical analysis and troubleshooting in coordination with the support team. The support team coordinates incident ownership and client communications; incident work is tracked separately from proactive engineering hours. 

Responsibilities

• Review configurations across client Azure subscriptions and recommend practical improvements. 

• Perform supportability reviews ahead of planned Azure migrations and deployments. 

• Identify dependencies and operational gaps in proposed Azure changes. 

• Advise clients on relevant Azure capabilities and product changes that could improve existing environments, including cost and operational implications. 

• Build and maintain working knowledge of each client’s technology, processes, stakeholders, and operational priorities. 

• Assess current deployments and contribute design input for enhancements. 

• Perform approved configuration tuning within the agreed proactive engineering scope. 

• Document findings, prioritized recommendations, implementation steps, and completed changes. 

• Schedule work with the Client Success Manager, estimate and track hours, and communicate progress in client reviews. 

• Identify migrations, new landing zones, major implementations, and other requests requiring separately scoped project work. 

Required qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of Azure administration, including subscriptions, identity and access, networking, compute, storage, monitoring, security, and governance. 

• Experience assessing production Azure environments and turning findings into practical, prioritized recommendations. 

• Ability to independently evaluate supportability and perform changes through client change-control processes. 

• Experience with PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Azure administration tools. 

• Strong documentation, effort-estimation, and client communication skills. 

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104). 

Preferred qualifications

• 5–7 years of relevant hands-on Azure engineering experience, including enterprise client experience. 

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305). 

• Experience with Bicep or Terraform, Azure Policy, Azure Monitor, and Microsoft Entra ID. 

• Experience delivering planned engineering work across multiple clients. 

Why AHEAD:   Through our daily work and internal groups like Moving Women AHEAD and RISE AHEAD, we value and benefit from diversity of people, ideas, experience, and everything in between.   We fuel growth by stacking our office with top-notch technologies in a multi-million-dollar lab, by encouraging cross department training and development, sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning.   India Employment Benefits include:  Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership