Location: Tegucigalpa, Honduras
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 Senior Cloud Engineer, you will manage mission-critical infrastructure that directly supports conservation programs, enabling WWF-US and its Country Offices across South America, Central America, Africa and Asia to operate seamlessly.
Responsibilities:
- Own the Azure infrastructure: create subscriptions, provision resources, and build/deploy VMs (Windows, SQL, Red Hat, firewalls) in production and staging.
- Security and identity: configure Microsoft Entra tenants, manage SSO through Azure Enterprise Apps, maintain RBAC and user groups, patch systems proactively, and automate tasks with PowerShell and Graph API.
- Backup and disaster recovery: design backup strategies and DR playbooks.
- Networking: troubleshoot VNETs, sites and tenants, firewalls, load balancers, and DNS (Azure and Cloudflare).
- Be the go-to expert for Azure, Entra ID and M365 issues; lead projects end-to-end and keep technical and non-technical stakeholders informed.
- Occasional after-hours or weekend work for critical outages or planned maintenance.
Requirements:
- Degree in IT or a related field and at least 8 years of work experience (including at least 6 years in IT).
- Verbal and written fluency in English and Spanish (must have).
- Experience managing large-scale enterprise IT systems and highly available Azure production systems.
- In-depth knowledge of Azure services, cloud architecture and networking, Entra ID, Microsoft 365, and Windows and Linux servers.
- Proficiency managing Windows domains and Active Directory.
- Expertise in PowerShell and Graph API for Azure management, automation and deployment.
- Familiarity with provisioning access for Fabric, Power BI and Azure Foundry; experience integrating Microsoft Copilot for M365, Copilot Studio and Copilot Agents, including data access governance.
- Strong troubleshooting methodology, project management and communication skills.
- Commitment to inclusion and alignment with WWF's values: courage, integrity, respect and collaboration.
Salary and benefits are paid in local currency.
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply via the SmartRecruiters link. Resumes and cover letters must be submitted in English. Candidates must be currently based and authorized to work in one of the following countries: Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Suriname, or Guyana. Position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WorldWildlifeFundInc1/744000152693510