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Principal Azure Capacity Manager

Job in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 15289, USA
Listing for: Eliassen Group
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-03-03
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 85 - 95 USD Hourly USD 85.00 95.00 HOUR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Description:
Hybrid 4 in New York, NY

Our client is a global investments company providing informed investment management and investment services across numerous markets. The organization serves institutions, corporations, and individual investors and acts as a single point of contact for clients to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute, or restructure investments.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $85.00 to $95.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:
  • Own the end-to-end capacity management operating model for Azure services, including planning, modeling, forecasting, monitoring, tuning, and governance.
  • Ensure sufficient capacity and engineered buffer to meet SLOs, RTO/RPO, and regulatory or contractual requirements with U.S.

    -only region restrictions and continuous monitoring.
  • Partner with SREs to operationalize capacity practices via IaC, gated change control, performance baselines, autoscaling policies, and resilience patterns.
  • Contribute to documentation and evidence such as SSP updates, control narratives, POA&M items, and continuous monitoring artifacts.
  • Build and maintain service-level capacity models across App Services, databases, storage, messaging, networking, and cryptography services.
  • Establish buffer standards by service criticality and validate against demand curves, failover scenarios, and maintenance events.
  • Implement autoscaling strategies with guardrails on quotas and throttling and tune triggers based on SLI/SLOs.
  • Run baseline and trend analysis on utilization, throughput, and performance and convert findings into tuning, reservations or savings plans, and architecture changes.
  • Forecast demand from product roadmaps and business growth and translate into capacity plans and procurement reservations with lead-time and runway targets.
  • Participate in CABs as the capacity and security representative and enforce gated approvals tied to documented impact analyses.
  • Keep cryptographic mechanisms under configuration management with versioned inventories and approved FIPS-validated modules.
  • Document capacity-related changes with CIA assessments and update SSP and system documentation when control implementations change.
  • Integrate vulnerability and flaw remediation tracking with capacity risk considerations and maintain POA&M entries with continuous monitoring evidence.
  • Ensure external services supporting capacity conform to required requirements with oversight and continuous monitoring.
  • Enforce U.S. or U.S. Territories-only processing, storage, logging, backups, DR, and support operations for High impact systems and validate region selection in plans.
  • Balance performance, resilience, and cost using reservations or savings plans, rightsizing, storage tiering, and scheduled scaling with transparent reporting.
  • Integrate capacity signals into incident, change, and problem processes to drive proactive adjustments.
  • Perform criticality analysis to prioritize capacity and align hardening, monitoring, backup or DR, and buffer policies to tiers.
  • Validate DR capacity for failover scenarios and ensure reserved buffer and quotas for disasters without impacting steady state performance.
  • Define and publish capacity KPIs and provide dashboards and executive-ready reports for continuous monitoring, audits, and governance.
Experience Requirements:
  • 10-12+ years in infrastructure capacity and performance engineering across compute, storage, network, and platform services.
  • Experience operating in regulated environments with familiarity of FedRAMP High concepts and evidence requirements.
  • Strong data analysis skills with ability to translate telemetry and forecasts into decisions and stakeholder communications.
  • Process orientation with disciplined change and configuration management across IT operations and finance dependencies.
  • Experience coordinating cross-functional engineering teams and aligning delivery across multiple platforms and tools.
  • Familiarity with Azure services and concepts such as Entra , managed identities, Azure SQL or MI, storage, networking, policies, and RBAC from a PM perspective.
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and executive-facing presentation skills.
  • Ability to translate complex technical requirements into clear plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
  • Azure capacity ecosystem including Monitor, Log Analytics, Metrics, Advisor, Cost Management, Reservations or Savings Plans, and quotas or limits management.
  • Compute and container scaling with AKS, VMSS, and App Service; HPA or VPA; performance testing with k6 or JMeter; observability with Prometheus or Grafana.
  • Storage and database performance including tiering, IOPS or throughput planning, caching, indexing, and connection management.
  • Networking and security capacity with Azure Firewall, NSGs, private endpoints, and Bastion including throughput or…
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