Azure Solution Architect - Cleared (Top Secret)

TrueTandem is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Azure Infrastructure Cloud Engineer to support the delivery of enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and platform services for a member of the Intelligence Community (IC). This role is ideal for a seasoned cloud professional with expertise in Azure infrastructure, automation, security, governance, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) who thrives in mission-driven environments.

The successful candidate will join a team responsible for designing, deploying, securing, and sustaining cloud platforms that support critical mission and business applications. Solutions are engineered in accordance with approved reference architectures, federal security requirements, organizational policies, and cloud engineering best practices.

The environment leverages Azure-native services, Microsoft 365, Power Platform, Terraform, Bicep, and Azure DevOps to deliver secure, scalable, and repeatable cloud capabilities. The team emphasizes automation, policy-driven governance, continuous compliance validation, operational excellence, and efficient platform management to accelerate cloud adoption while maintaining security and regulatory requirements.

As a Senior Azure Infrastructure Cloud Engineer, you will help build and maintain the core Azure infrastructure foundation that enables mission and business workloads across the enterprise. Working within a cross-functional team of architects, engineers, developers, and cybersecurity professionals, you will design, implement, and support Azure governance frameworks, subscriptions, management groups, virtual networking, storage services, Key Vault, monitoring solutions, security controls, identity integration, workload migrations, and operational sustainment activities.

The ideal candidate possesses hands-on experience supporting complex federal cloud environments and demonstrates the ability to troubleshoot and resolve challenging infrastructure issues while balancing security, performance, reliability, and scalability requirements. Success in this role requires a strong commitment to automation, continuous improvement, and delivering secure, resilient cloud solutions that support evolving mission needs.

This position offers the opportunity to contribute to some of the most critical cloud modernization initiatives within the federal government while working with leading technologies and a highly collaborative engineering team.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to deliver secure, scalable, and repeatable Azure infrastructure deployments.
• Build, enhance, and support automated CI/CD pipelines within Azure DevOps to streamline infrastructure provisioning, application delivery, and operational deployments.
• Architect, deploy, and sustain Azure infrastructure services in alignment with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), Well-Architected Framework, and organizational standards.
• Implement and administer Azure governance capabilities, including Management Groups, Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Policies, and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), to enforce security, compliance, and operational consistency.
• Configure and manage Azure Key Vault to safeguard secrets, certificates, encryption keys, and application credentials.
• Design, deploy, and support Azure storage solutions while implementing data protection, backup, recovery, retention, and lifecycle management strategies.
• Architect and maintain enterprise networking solutions, including Virtual WAN, Virtual Networks (VNets), Network Security Groups (NSGs), private connectivity, DNS, and hybrid cloud integrations.
• Implement enterprise monitoring and observability solutions using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, alerts, dashboards, and automated response capabilities.
• Support the migration, modernization, and optimization of applications and workloads into Azure cloud environments.
• Integrate security controls and compliance requirements throughout the infrastructure lifecycle in accordance with Zero Trust principles, TIC 3.0 guidance, NIST frameworks, and federal security baselines.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, identity, performance, and security issues across cloud environments to ensure platform reliability and operational excellence.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, cybersecurity teams, and stakeholders to design, implement…