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 salary and benefits are paid in local currency.

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 a 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
• Eligible to work in Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Suriname or Guyana; no visa sponsorship

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
• VM provisioning and troubleshooting of complex cloud or hybrid systems