Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer

Summary

We strive to be enterprising, respectful, inclusive, insightful, and tenacious in every aspect of our business, including our interactions with clients, colleagues, and the communities where we have a presence. We rely on these core values to serve clients in key practice areas and industries – the pillars of Brown Rudnick: crisis management, which includes restructuring, investigations, and special situations; global litigation; life sciences; technology; and brand and reputation management.

The Microsoft Azure Cloud Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, security, and ongoing optimization of Brown Rudnick’s Microsoft Azure environment, supporting mission-critical legal applications and data. This role ensures high availability, performance, and compliance within a secure hybrid cloud infrastructure, working closely with the IT operations team and other functional departments within firm administration to deliver reliable, scalable, and cost-effective cloud services aligned with the firm’s business and client requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the firm’s Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure, ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Manage hybrid cloud environments by integrating Azure with on-premises systems and legal applications.
• Administer Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), identity governance, role-based access controls, and secure access configurations.
• Implement and maintain cloud security controls aligned with legal industry standards, client security requirements, and firm data protection policies.
• Deploy and support Azure Virtual Machines, networking, storage, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Automate infrastructure deployments using preferred Infrastructure-as-Code tools (examples: ARM, Bicep, Terraform) and scripting (examples: PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash).
• Monitor system performance, availability, and cost optimization using Azure monitoring and management tools.
• Support cloud-hosted legal platforms and integrations, ensuring high availability of document management, financial, and practice systems.
• Collaborate with Security, IT Customer Service Desk, and other Functional Department teams to ensure stable and secure operations.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning, testing, and business continuity initiatives.
• Assist with vendor coordination, cloud governance, and responses to client security audits or questionnaires.
• Engineer and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) workloads in Azure, including patching, hardening, and performance tuning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field required.
• 7+ years of engineering experience supporting large-scale (400+ users) infrastructure and cloud environments.
• Relevant Professional Certifications (Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty, CCA / CCP / CCE / VCP) preferred.
• Strong experience with Azure architecture (compute, networking, identity, governance).
• Experience managing hybrid cloud environments integrating on-premises systems with Azure.
• Knowledge of Citrix to AVD migration and/or VMware to Azure migration preferred.
• Demonstrated experience implementing cloud security best practices in regulated or professional services environments.
• Experience with monitoring, performance optimization, and Azure cost management.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, attention to detail, and ability to work collaboratively across technical and business teams.
• Familiarity with legal technology cloud services, such as document management systems, case management software, and e-discovery tools, is highly desirable.
• Client service driven with a solution driven mindset.
• Understanding of cybersecurity best practices and relevant legal compliance requirements.

Measures of Success

• Azure-hosted systems achieve high availability and performance for mission-critical legal applications.
• Cloud security controls remain strong, with successful audit outcomes and no material configuration-related incidents.
• Disaster recovery capabilities are tested and meet defined recovery objectives.
• Cloud infrastructure is cost-optimized and operates within approved budget parameters.
• The Azure environment reliably supports firm growth, legal technology platforms, and innovation initiatives.

Who We Are

Brown Rudnick is a leading international law firm that provides exceptional, client-driven service in global litigation, crisis management (restructuring, investigations and special situations), brand and reputation management, life sciences and technology. We advise on high-profile cross-border matters while providing the kind of personal attention to clients that is typically found at boutiques. Our enterprising and tenacious lawyers serve our clients around the globe from offices in key financial centers in the U.S. and the U.K., and have been recognized by, among others, Chambers & Partners, Legal 500, Benchmark Litigation and Law360 for excellence in their fields.

Salary range based on experience level and location is estimated to be in the range of $140,000-160,000.

This position is required onsite in our Century City or Redwood Shores office five days a week, Monday through Friday.

Brown Rudnick LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer , committed to recruiting, developing, and advancing talented professionals from all backgrounds across the spectrum of diversity. All employees and applicants are evaluated on the basis of their qualifications, consistent with applicable state and federal laws, without regard to race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, religious beliefs, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, age, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, or another protected characteristic, all as defined by applicable laws.