Azure Infrastructure Specialist – Resilience (English Required)
Avanade Inc.
We are hiring a Azure Infrastructure Specialist | Resilience to lead technical engagements focused on improving reliability, continuity, and recoverability in Microsoft Azure environments. This role involves infrastructure assessment, continuity planning, and incident response design, delivering actionable recommendations aligned with operational resiliency best practices.
What you will do:
* Assess the resiliency posture of customer environments from both technical and operational perspectives
* Evaluate disaster recovery (DR) plans, business continuity (BC) strategies, and Major Incident Response Plans (MIRPs)
* Conduct in-depth technical analysis of cloud infrastructure, application dependencies, observability configurations, and failover capabilities
* Review and enhance MIRPs, including escalation protocols, incident communication plans, recovery sequencing, and impact containment strategies
* Identify risks, vulnerabilities, and single points of failure across workloads and operational processes
* Recommend improvements aligned with the Azure Well-Architected Framework, SRE principles, and ITIL practices
* Engage customer teams to understand RTO/RPO targets, recovery workflows, and coordination models for major incidents
* Deliver professional, customer-facing documentation summarizing technical findings and process maturity recommendations
Skills and experiences:
* Deep experience with high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) design in Microsoft Azure
* Solid understanding of Azure architecture, including infrastructure, Availability Zones, backup/recovery, and monitoring services
* Familiarity with cloud-native resiliency patterns and site reliability engineering (SRE) methods
* Proven ability to assess and design effective Major Incident Response Plans (MIRPs) aligned with operational SLAs and business risk tolerances
* Experience in business continuity planning, incident response coordination, and process maturity assessments
* Excellent communication and documentation skills for technical and executive stakeholders
* Background in technical consulting or assessment-based delivery engagements
* Experience contributing to or leading the development of enterprise-wide MIRP and DR testing programs
* Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, or SOC 2 Type II in the context of operational resilience
* Prior experience supporting regulated industries (e.g., finance, healthcare, government) with stringent uptime, data protection, or continuity mandates
* Hands-on experience with Azure BCDR tools such as Azure Site Recovery, Backup Vaults, Azure Automation, or Service Health Alerts
* Working knowledge of multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments and related resiliency implications
* Familiarity with chaos engineering or resilience testing tools and practices
* Experience integrating DevOps pipelines with resiliency validation steps (e.g., backup validation, DR simulation, alerting thresholds)
* Exposure to incident simulation platforms, runbook automation, or response coordination tooling (e.g., Microsoft Sentinel, ServiceNow)
About You:
Characteristics that demonstrate success for this role:
Exceptional communication
Conflict resolution, and decision-making skills in fast-paced,
Multicultural environments.
Enjoy your career:
Some of the best things about working at Avanade:
Opportunity to work for Microsoft Alliance Global Partner of the Year (14 consecutive years), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for paid training and certifications)Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally
Dedicated career counselor to encourage your growth
Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you
Learn more about some of our benefits:
* Meal or food vouchers;
* Multi-benefit Card up to Senior Consultant;
* Medical and dental insurance;
* Certifications and training;
* Life Insurance;
* Private Pension;
* Avababy: pregnancy monitoring and kit for new Avanade fathers and mothers;
* Participation in the company's results;
* Wellhub;
* Daycare Assistance;
* Career Advisor - Career mentoring;
* Birthday Off policy on your birthday and children up to 12 years old;
* Wellness Sessions;
* For managerial function or higher - Corporate vehicle, parking and fuel assistance.
A Great Place To Work
By bringing your skills and capabilities to Avanade, you'll get specific experiences, unlimited learning and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we have become even more innovative and creative, helping us to better serve our customers and communities. You'll join a community of smart, supportive employees to uplift, mentor, and mentor you, and rely on their expertise. You'll have a company built for cutting-edge, business-critical technology solutions committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It's all here, so take a closer look!
Our team is made up of people with different backgrounds and backgrounds. We believe that this diversity strengthens our company.
Create a future for our people who focus on:
• Expand your thinking • Experiment intensely • Learn and pivot
Inspire greatness in our people by:
• Empowering every voice • Encouraging boldness • Celebrating progress Accelerate the impact of our people by: • Surprising the customer • Prioritizing what matters • Acting as one
Learn More:
To learn more about Avanade, check out these links:
[1] Avanade.com
[2] Avanade Brasil (@avanadebrasil) - Instagram
[3] Avanade Brasil - LinkedIn
References
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1. https://www.avanade.com/pt-br
2. https://www.instagram.com/avanadebrasil/
3. https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/avanade-brasil/posts/?feedView=all
We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Avanade believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunities, and we do not discriminate against our employees, applicants, or job seekers because of their race, color, gender, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, or any other protect group status as defined by law.
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