Job Description

Sapiens is looking for a Lead Azure Infrastructure Engineer to own the technical direction and hands-on improvement of our corporate Microsoft Azure estate. If you’re a senior cloud and identity expert who wants to shape architecture and personally build complex solutions with a globally successful company, this role could be the right fit.

Location: Bangalore, India

Working Model: Our flexible work arrangement combines both remote and in-office work, optimizing flexibility and productivity.

Role Profile: Lead technical specialist, with architecture authority and hands-on engineering

What you’ll do:

• Assess the architecture and configuration of corporate Azure tenants, management groups, subscriptions, connectivity, policies, access and operational controls, and drive remediation of material gaps.
• Define and maintain the target architecture for corporate Azure services, including landing zones, subscription strategy, networking, identity integration, security baselines and governance.
• Set practical standards for Azure Policy, RBAC, naming and tagging, infrastructure as code and deployment patterns.
• Lead the assessment of on-premises Active Directory, Entra ID, synchronisation, authentication and legacy application dependencies.
• Design and help deliver the move toward cloud-managed identity, with clear coexistence, cutover, validation and rollback plans.
• Own technical patterns for Conditional Access, MFA, privileged access, access reviews, break-glass controls and least privilege, working with the CISO and security teams.
• Implement and troubleshoot complex Azure and identity configurations, and review scripts, IaC changes and production changes delivered by others.
• Provide independent design challenge and assurance to HSO on the Azure, Entra and integration components supporting the Dynamics 365 programme.
• Guide the Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer and Azure Cloud Engineer, review high-risk changes, and build repeatable runbooks and standards.
• Ensure monitoring, backup and recovery, security logging, disaster recovery and supportability are built into designs and accepted at handover.

What you’ll bring:

• 10+ years of infrastructure engineering or architecture experience, including significant production ownership of enterprise Microsoft Azure environments.
• Expert Azure architecture experience with landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, RBAC, Azure Policy, networking, private connectivity and governance.
• Deep practical expertise in Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory, including hybrid identity, directory synchronisation and identity lifecycle controls.
• Ability to design, execute and troubleshoot complex migrations and deployments, with working proficiency in PowerShell and Terraform or Bicep.
• Strong understanding of Azure security architecture, Conditional Access, privileged access, logging, Defender for Cloud and enterprise controls.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert. Hands-on evidence remains essential regardless of certification.
• A track record of influencing suppliers and stakeholders, making defensible technical decisions and communicating risk clearly.

Desirable:

• Microsoft Entra or identity certification (e.g., SC-300) and exposure to hybrid AD modernisation programmes.
• Experience assuring Dynamics 365 programmes and systems-integrator-delivered cloud environments.
• Experience with cost governance, disaster recovery design, platform observability and regulated-enterprise controls.

About Sapiens

Sapiens is a global leader in the insurance industry, delivering its award-winning, cloud-based SaaS insurance platform to over 600 customers in more than 30 countries. Sapiens’ platform offers pre-integrated, low-code capabilities to accelerate customers’ digital transformation. With more than 40 years of industry expertise, Sapiens has a highly professional team of over 5,000 employees globally.

For more information, visit www.sapiens.com.

Sapiens is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment that embraces individuals from diverse backgrounds.

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