Azure Cloud Engineer — Enterprise and Hybrid Infrastructure Teams, US Employers

Banks, health systems, insurers, manufacturers, universities and government contractors across the United States hire Azure cloud engineers to build and run infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. Azure is strongest where an organisation is already committed to Microsoft, which means these roles sit in older, more regulated and more hybrid estates than the average cloud posting.

What the work involves

Designing and provisioning Azure environments, running migrations out of on-premise data centres, managing identity in Entra ID, and connecting the cloud estate back to networks and systems that are not going anywhere. Infrastructure as code where the organisation has got that far, and a great deal of governance and compliance work where it has not.

Requirements

• Real operational experience — systems you have run under load, not only built
• Core Azure: virtual machines, storage, networking, and Entra ID in depth
• Hybrid identity and networking — site-to-site VPN, ExpressRoute, DNS, firewalls
• Infrastructure as code, Terraform or Bicep, treated as software rather than as scripts
• Governance, compliance and cost management, which enterprises weight heavily
• PowerShell, and enough Python or Bash to automate anything done twice

How the pay is structured

• There is no federal figure for this title, and the published averages disagree sharply — $169,202 from one source, $145,221 from another, for the same job title
• The measured anchors are network and computer systems administrators at a $99,130 median, computer network architects at $134,050, and software developers at $135,980
• Check what share of the role is Microsoft 365 tenant administration. That work is real and needed, and it is counted and paid as administration rather than engineering

Before you apply

Read the job description for the split. A title of "Cloud Engineer (Azure / M365 / Infrastructure)" is describing at least two jobs. Ask in the first interview what proportion of the week is tenant administration, licensing and user support versus infrastructure design — the answer sets the band and the next role you can reach from it.

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