Principal Azure Capacity Manager

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

• 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.

• 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 ID, 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 latency planning and allow-listing discipline.
• Cryptography services such as Key Vault and managed HSM with FIPS-validated modules and key lifecycle capacity considerations.
• IaC and configuration management with Terraform, Bicep, ARM, and Ansible or Chef integrated with gated CI or CD.
• Governance with Azure Policy, Blueprints, and Initiatives for configuration baselines and region restrictions and SSP and evidence artifact production.
• Financial services experience (preferred).
• Building capacity models for multi-region architectures with strict U.S.-only constraints (preferred).
• DR planning and execution with validated failover capacity and documented evidence (preferred).
• POA&M management and continuous monitoring submissions in a FedRAMP context (preferred).
• Collaboration with SREs on SLI or SLOs, error budgets, and reliability patterns (preferred).

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline.
• Azure-related certifications (preferred).

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a leading strategic consulting company for human-powered solutions. For over 30 years, Eliassen has helped thousands of companies reach further and achieve more with their technology solutions, financial, risk & compliance, and advisory solutions, and clinical solutions. With offices from coast to coast and throughout Europe, Eliassen provides a local community presence, balanced with international reach. Eliassen Group strives to positively impact the lives of their employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which they operate.

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