Digital Practice Group | Environmental Services | Stantec
About the Role
As a Senior Azure Infrastructure Specialist within Stantec's Digital Practice, you will serve as a key technical specialist for the design, delivery, and ongoing stewardship of Azure cloud infrastructure underpinning environmental services platforms, enterprise systems and digital transformation initiatives. You will be equally at home whiteboarding cloud architecture with stakeholders and rolling up your sleeves to implement, configure, troubleshoot and support environments. You won't hand off to someone else to build what you've designed, you will own it end to end.
This is a hybrid architecture-and-delivery role, you are expected to lead design decisions and execute them hands-on, working alongside data engineers, application developers, technical specialists and business teams to drive consistent, secure, and scalable cloud outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Design
- Help lead the design and documentation of Azure cloud infrastructure solutions including within landing zones, networking, compute, storage, and identity patterns aligned to Stantec's enterprise governance framework
- Help define and maintain Azure architecture standards, reference architectures, and technical roadmaps for the Environmental Services Digital Practice
- Evaluate and recommend Azure services (IaaS, PaaS, serverless, etc) to support evolving data, integration, and application workloads
- Collaborate with security, networking, and data teams to ensure solutions are compliant with Stantec's cloud governance policies, including RBAC, policy-as-code (Azure Policy), and network segmentation, etc
Implementation & Engineering
- Implement and manage Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), including CI/CD pipeline integration via Azure DevOps
- Provision, configure, test, and manage core platform services including:
- Networking: Azure Virtual Networks, NSGs, Private Endpoints, Azure Firewall, Application Gateways, Private Endpoints
- Compute & Hosting: Virtual Machines (Windows/Linux), Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), High-Performance Computing (HPC), App Services
- Data & Storage: Azure SQL Database, ADLS Gen2, Storage Accounts, Databricks
- Integration & Automation: Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure Data Factory
- Security & Identity: Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, Conditional Access, Managed Identities, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Key Vaults
- Observability & DevOps: Azure Monitor, Azure DevOps
- Manage infrastructure cost, performance, and capacity — including rightsizing, reserved instances, and cost allocation tagging strategies.
Operations & Support
- Provide Tier 3 support and troubleshooting for Azure platform issues, including networking, identity, and compute failures
- Monitor infrastructure health, performance, and cost efficiency on an ongoing basis
- Maintain comprehensive infrastructure documentation and operational procedures
- Help lead incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure-related events
- Work closely with DCoE infrastructure specialists to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities promptly and refine solutions
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Stay current with Azure best practices, security standards, emerging services, and automation trends
- Recommend and implement improvements to enhance infrastructure capabilities, scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency
- Mentor and support other technical team members within the Digital Practice team
- Contribute to knowledge sharing and process documentation across the team
Qualifications
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Data Science, or related field
- 10+ years of IT infrastructure experience, with 5+ years of deep, hands-on Azure cloud expertise
- Strong expertise in Azure networking, security, identity, and compute with proven experience deploying production-grade environments
- Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code tools, Terraform (preferred), Bicep, or ARM
- Scripting proficiency in PowerShell and/or Python or similar for automation
- Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines for infrastructure and solution deployment
- Familiarity with enterprise data platform services such as Databricks, ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL, ADF
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) highly regarded
- Experience working in regulated or governance-heavy environments preferred (e.g., engineering, environmental consulting)
What You'll Bring
- A builder's mindset - you don't just design, you deliver
- A collaborative approach that is comfortable working across data, application, and business teams in both large and small projects within a digital environment
- Ability to translate business and technical requirements into robust, scalable infrastructure solutions.
- Strong communication skills to engage with both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders
- A commitment to continuous improvement, documentation, and knowledge sharing
Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible. The Stantec community unites approximately 32,000 employees working in over 450 locations across 6 continents.
