Senior Cloud Engineer - Azure Infrastructure

About the role

WWF's conservation teams rely on secure cloud infrastructure to protect wildlife and advance climate action. As Senior Cloud Engineer, you will manage mission-critical infrastructure that keeps WWF-US and its country offices in South America, Central America, Africa and Asia running. The position is open to candidates based in Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Suriname or Guyana, paid in local currency; no visa sponsorship.

Key responsibilities

• Architect and build the Azure environment: create subscriptions, provision resources and deploy VMs (Windows, SQL, Red Hat, firewalls) in production and staging
• Configure Microsoft Entra tenants, manage SSO via Azure Enterprise Apps and keep RBAC and user groups secure; use PowerShell and Graph API to automate tasks
• Design backup strategies and disaster recovery playbooks
• Troubleshoot networking across VNETs, sites and tenants, including firewalls, load balancers and DNS (Azure and Cloudflare)
• Lead projects end-to-end and act as the go-to expert for Azure, Entra ID and M365 issues
• Occasional after-hours or weekend work for outages or planned maintenance

Required profile

• Degree in IT or related field and at least 8 years of work experience, including at least 6 in IT
• Fluent verbal and written English and Spanish
• History of managing large-scale enterprise IT systems and highly available Azure production systems
• Strong project management, communication and teamwork skills

Required skills

• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, cloud networking, Windows and Linux servers
• Windows domains and Active Directory
• PowerShell and Graph API for automation and deployment orchestration
• Fabric, Power BI, Azure Foundry and Microsoft Copilot for M365 integration