Senior Cloud Engineer - R4318
About This Role
Every day, WWF's conservation teams across the globe rely on robust, secure cloud infrastructure to protect wildlife, engage communities, and drive climate action. As our Senior Cloud Engineer, you'll be the foundational force ensuring our technology systems enable this global impact by managing mission-critical infrastructure that directly supports conservation programs.
In this position, you'll directly enable WWF-US and our network of Country Offices across South America, Central America, Africa, and Asia to operate seamlessly. Your work ensures that critical systems stay online so our teams can focus on what matters most: protecting nature at scale.
What You'll Do:
Own Our Azure Infrastructure
You'll be the architect behind WWF's Azure environment, spinning up subscriptions, provisioning resources, and building/deploying VMs (Windows, SQL, Red Hat, firewalls) from the ground up in both production and staging.
Lock Down Security & Identity
Configure Microsoft Entra tenants, manage SSO through Azure Enterprise Apps, and keep our RBAC and user groups clean and secure. You'll patch systems proactively and use PowerShell + Graph API to automate the boring stuff so the important stuff runs smoother.
Be Our Safety Net
Design backup strategies and disaster recovery playbooks that actually work when it matters. You're the reason we sleep at night knowing our systems can bounce back from anything.
Keep Everything Connected
Troubleshoot networking across VNETs, sites, and tenants. Firewalls, load balancers, DNS (Azure + Cloudflare), you speak the language fluently and fix problems before they become fires.
Be the Go-To Expert
When Azure, Entra ID, or M365 issues get complicated, you're who the team calls. You'll lead projects end-to-end and keep stakeholders, technical and non-technical alike, in the loop every step of the way.
Show Up When It Counts
Occasional after-hours or weekend work for critical outages or planned maintenance, because uptime matters, and so does the team that protects it.
Key Competencies
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Ability to Multitask. Demonstrates strong technical and operational agility, effectively navigating complex business and cloud environments to deliver tailored, high-quality support across WWF’s Azure and multi-cloud platforms.
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Solution-Oriented and Strategic Collaboration. Clear, influential communicator who leads projects end-to-end, ensuring alignment, transparency, and active engagement with stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams.
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Growth Mindset. Demonstrates a strong growth mindset, continually expanding expertise in evolving cloud, automation, and security technologies and applying new knowledge to strengthen WWF’s technical capabilities.
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Big Picture Thinking. Strategic acumen complemented by robust technical proficiency
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Collaborative. Proven ability to work effectively as part of a team
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Project Management. Strong organizational, documentation, and project management capabilities, including development of comprehensive project plans
Skills and Abilities
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Degree in IT or related field AND minimum of 8 years of work experience (including at least 6 years of experience in IT)
- MUST HAVE Verbal and written fluency in English and Spanish
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Experience managing large-scale enterprise IT systems
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Extensive hands-on experience managing highly available and resilient Azure production systems.
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In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Azure services, cloud architecture, cloud networking, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, and Windows and Linux servers
- Proficient in managing Windows domains and Active Directory
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Expertise in using PowerShell and Graph API for Azure management, workflow automation, and deployment orchestration
- Familiarity with provisioning and managing access for technologies such as Fabric, Power BI, and Azure Foundry
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Experience integrating Microsoft Copilot for M365, Copilot Studio, and Copilot Agents into enterprise Azure/