Senior Azure Workload Automation Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 30, 2026.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Azure Workload Automation Engineer to lead the modernization of enterprise batch processing, workload scheduling, file generation, and third-party integrations. The role will focus on designing, developing, migrating, and operating Azure-native workload automation solutions that modernize or replace legacy on-premises scheduling platforms.
The ideal candidate will combine strong expertise in Azure workload orchestration, batch processing, .NET/C#, enterprise integrations, DevOps, monitoring, and cloud security to build scalable, resilient, and highly automated solutions for critical business processes.
Key Responsibilities :
- Assess, analyze, and migrate legacy batch jobs, enterprise scheduler workloads, and file-processing processes to Microsoft Azure.
- Design and implement reusable cloud-native workload automation and scheduling frameworks.
- Modernize legacy file-based integrations and consolidate scheduling platforms where appropriate.
- Design and manage complex job dependencies, sequencing, scheduling, orchestration, and event-driven workflows.
- Develop workload automation solutions using Azure Batch, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure Data Factory, Azure Automation Runbooks, Azure Container Apps, and AKS.
- Support daily, weekly, monthly, year-end, and event-driven business processing workloads.
- Design and develop automated file-generation processes for CSV, fixed-width, XML, JSON, EDI, and other custom formats.
- Implement secure file and data transfers using SFTP, FTPS, APIs, and Azure Storage.
- Implement data validation, encryption, compression, and processing controls for enterprise file exchanges.
- Develop and maintain automation services and reusable components using C#, .NET 8+, PowerShell, and Python.
- Implement robust logging, exception handling, retries, error recovery, and resiliency mechanisms.
- Design monitoring and observability solutions using Azure Monitor and related Azure-native services.
- Build operational dashboards, alerts, SLA monitoring, failure detection, escalation workflows, and automated remediation.
- Establish workload execution tracking, audit trails, operational reporting, and governance controls.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and recoverability of workload automation platforms.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application and infrastructure deployment using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Bicep and/or Terraform.
- Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud platform engineering best practices.
- Implement secure Azure solutions using Managed Identities, Azure Key Vault, RBAC, Private Endpoints, and secure file-transfer mechanisms.
- Ensure solutions adhere to enterprise security, governance, compliance, audit, and regulatory requirements.
- Apply relevant principles from the Azure Well-Architected Framework, particularly security, reliability, operational excellence, and performance.
Required Skills & Experience :
- 8 - 10 years of experience in software engineering, workload automation, batch processing, cloud engineering, or related areas.
- Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing workload automation and enterprise batch-processing solutions.
- Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure and Azure-native orchestration services.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Batch, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Automation.
- Experience with Azure Container Apps and/or AKS is desirable.
- Strong programming experience with C# and .NET 8+.
- Good experience with PowerShell and preferably Python.
- Strong understanding of scheduling, job dependencies, workflow orchestration, event-driven architectures, and batch processing.
- Experience implementing enterprise integrations using SFTP, FTPS, REST APIs, Azure Storage, and third-party systems.
- Experience generating and processing structured and fixed-format files including CSV, XML, JSON, EDI, and fixed-width formats.
- Strong understanding of application resiliency, retry mechanisms, fault handling, logging, and exception management.
- Experience with Azure Monitor, dashboards, alerting, and operational observability.
- Strong experience with Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions and CI/CD implementation.
- Hands-on experience with Bicep and/or Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Good understanding of Managed Identity, Key Vault, RBAC, Private Endpoints, encryption, and secure data transfer.
- Experience modernizing or migrating legacy/on-premises workload automation platforms to Azure.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Skills
Azure, Batch Processing, C#, .Net, Logic App, CI/CD Pipeline, IAC Terraform, Azure Kubernetes Service, CI/CD Implementation