Principal Azure Capacity Manager
Pittsburgh, PA
Category: Engineer
Industry: Financial Services
Reference ID: JN -022026-105645
Date Posted: 02/24/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/fKcIw4
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 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).
Education Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related discipline.
- Azure-related certifications (preferred).
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact InfoSec@eliassen.com.
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