Role: Principal Azure Capacity Manager
Duration: 12 months
Location: New York, NY (4 days onsite required weekly from day one)
Legal Authorization: US Citizen or Green Card Holder
Interview: Video
Requirements: Public cloud, Capacity management, Government, FedRAMP
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Required Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
- 10–12+ years in infrastructure capacity/performance engineering across compute, storage, network, and platform services; financial services experience is a plus.
- Demonstrated experience operating in regulated environments; familiarity with FedRAMP High concepts and evidence requirements.
- Strong data analysis skills; capable of translating telemetry and forecasts into clear decisions and stakeholder communications.
- Process orientation with disciplined change/config management; ability to manage upstream/downstream dependencies across IT operations and finance.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional engineering teams and aligning delivery across multiple platforms and tools.
- Familiarity with Azure services and concepts (e.g., Entra ID, managed identities, Azure SQL/MI, storage, networking, policies, RBAC) from a PM perspective.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive-facing presentation skills.
- Ability to translate complex technical requirements into clear plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
Technical Skills
- Azure capacity ecosystem: Monitor/Log Analytics/Metrics, Advisor, Cost Management, Reservations/Savings Plans, quotas/limits management.
- Compute/container scaling: AKS, VMSS, App Service; HPA/VPA, autoscaling policies; performance testing (k6/JMeter); observability (Prometheus/Grafana).
- Storage and database performance: tiering, IOPS/throughput planning, caching, indexing, and connection management.
- Networking and security capacity: Azure Firewall, NSGs, private endpoints, Bastion; throughput/latency planning and allow-listing discipline.
- Cryptography services: Key Vault, managed HSM; FIPS-validated modules; key lifecycle capacity considerations.
- IaC and config management: Terraform/Bicep/ARM; Ansible/Chef; integration with gated CI/CD.
- Governance: Azure Policy/Blueprints/Initiatives for configuration baselines and region restrictions; SSP and evidence artifact production.
Preferred Qualifications
- Building capacity models for multi-region architectures with strict U.S.-only constraints.
- DR planning and execution with validated failover capacity and documented evidence.
- POA&M management and continuous monitoring submissions in a FedRAMP context.
- Collaboration with SREs on SLI/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability patterns.