Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Company: Simple Staffing
Location: United States (Remote)
Salary: $163,200 - $220,800 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-05-01
About this role
\* Simple Staffing is hiring for this position on behalf of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati \*
The Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, under the direction of the Senior manager of Infrastructure will collaborate with our internal IT teams to design, analyze, and maintain several key aspects within our firmwide cloud footprint. The Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer should be a well-rounded professional who can work well across teams and have excellent time management skills to balance various workloads and responsibilities. This person will lead efforts to design, architect, advise and implement various workflows and services related to cloud platforms. This person will work to ensure our systems and architecture complies with our security standards, policies, and risk guidance.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Act as the technical subject matter expert and sounding board for questions and decisions related to Microsoft Azure and other Cloud solutions.
- Bridge the gap between the IT Infrastructure team and IT Applications team as it relates to integrating application development and IT Infrastructure leveraging primarily Microsoft technologies such as Azure DevOps, Power Platform, Graph API, Foundry, as well as new technologies as they are released.
- Ensure that solutions that are built follow vendor best practices for performance, cost, data protection, and security.
- Assist in the development of technology roadmaps, covering lifecycle planning, capacity planning, obsolescence, availability of support, and vendor roadmaps.
- Perform root cause analysis to quickly recover from service interruptions, and to prevent recurring problems in the environment.
- Create and maintain clear documentation on services and applications.
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience as a senior cloud systems administrator or comparable experience.
- 5+ years of experience managing and designing Azure environments. Advanc...