Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer Architect Jobs in Chanhassen, MN

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Infrastructure Project Manager

St. Paul, MN
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Temporary / Contract
60 - 65 USD / Hourly
We are looking for an Infrastructure Project Manager to lead complex infrastructure and cloud migration initiatives for a long-term contract engagement. This role will guide planning, coordination, governance, and delivery across technology, business, and vendor teams while helping ensure a smooth transition of file storage and hosted applications to cloud-based environments. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement and requires a proactive leader who can keep stakeholders aligned, manage execution risks, and support critical migration activities with minimal disruption to operations. Responsibilities:• Direct end-to-end project delivery by managing scope, timeline, budget, resource planning, quality expectations, dependencies, and final outcomes throughout the engagement.• Build and maintain comprehensive project roadmaps, milestone schedules, governance routines, issue tracking, and leadership updates to support informed decision-making.• Collaborate closely with executive sponsors, business partners, technical teams, and external vendors to establish shared priorities, clarify objectives, and confirm measures of success.• Lead resolution of project risks, action items, open issues, and key decisions by evaluating impacts and recommending effective next steps.• Prepare concise status reporting and presentations tailored to executive, operational, and technical audiences.• Oversee migration planning activities including discovery, inventory review, readiness assessment, sequencing, testing coordination, cutover preparation, validation, and transition support.• Coordinate the movement of home drives, shared file repositories, and hosted applications to approved cloud platforms while accounting for integrations, dependencies, and business readiness.• Manage stakeholder communication, training support, adoption planning, vendor coordination, and cross-functional working sessions to promote successful implementation and operational handoff. Interested candidates should contact Sally Lander at 612.249.0254 or sally.lander@roberthalf.(com).
2026-11-02T00:00:00Z

Platform Engineer

Wayzata, MN
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Temporary / Contract
55 - 65 USD / Hourly
We are looking for an experienced Azure platform engineering specialist to support enterprise-scale cloud capabilities. This long-term contract position focuses on shaping, enhancing, and sustaining Azure platform services that enable business-critical applications and technology initiatives. The role calls for a hands-on engineer who can work independently, partner with cross-functional teams, and deliver reliable, secure, and scalable Azure solutions across a broad technical landscape. Responsibilities: • Architect, implement, and support Azure platform services that meet enterprise application and infrastructure needs. • Build and enhance Azure environments spanning network connectivity, gateway services, security controls, and container-based platforms. • Develop and maintain Azure management capabilities to improve governance, consistency, and operational efficiency. • Establish and support CI/CD workflows, DevOps practices, and repository standards to streamline platform delivery. • Configure and optimize Azure monitoring solutions to strengthen availability, performance visibility, and incident response. • Contribute to Azure AI and data platform initiatives, including support for modern AI-driven and data-centric services. • Evaluate existing Azure implementations and introduce improvements that raise performance, stability, and functionality. • Translate technical and business objectives into practical Azure platform designs and implementation plans. • Partner with application, infrastructure, and security teams to resolve complex platform issues and support ongoing product delivery.
2026-10-26T00:00:00Z

Server and Storage Engineer

Minneapolis, MN
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Permanent / Full Time
170000 - 190000 USD / Yearly
We are looking for an experienced Server and Storage Engineer to support and enhance enterprise infrastructure operations for our Minneapolis client. This position focuses on maintaining reliable server, storage, virtualization, and backup environments while strengthening performance visibility across critical systems. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and the ability to help modernize infrastructure with cloud-aligned technologies. Responsibilities:• Manage and optimize enterprise server and storage platforms to ensure high availability, resilience, and consistent performance across the environment.• Administer NetApp storage solutions and VMware infrastructure, including configuration, capacity planning, maintenance, and operational support.• Oversee backup and recovery processes for business-critical systems, validating data protection strategies and recovery readiness.• Use monitoring and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Datadog, or New Relic to identify issues, analyze trends, and improve system health.• Support core Microsoft infrastructure, including Windows Server, Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Exchange services.• Maintain and improve virtualized environments and related infrastructure components to meet security, performance, and scalability requirements.• Collaborate with cross-functional technology teams on infrastructure improvements, cloud-related initiatives, and long-term platform strategy.• Troubleshoot complex server, storage, and connectivity issues, driving timely resolution and minimizing operational disruption.
2026-11-01T00:00:00Z

Systems Engineer

Minneapolis, MN
remote
Permanent / Full Time
70000 - 91000 USD / Yearly
We are looking for a Systems Engineer to support the reliability, performance, and day-to-day administration of cloud infrastructure in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This role works closely with technical teams and business partners to maintain core Azure and cloud-based services, resolve operational issues, and keep systems secure, current, and well-documented. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with cloud platforms, strong attention to process, and a proactive approach to improving service delivery. Responsibilities: • Build, configure, and support cloud infrastructure and platform services across Azure and related environments. • Monitor system availability and overall platform health, performing regular checks to identify and address issues before they affect operations. • Plan and execute operating system and application updates during approved maintenance periods, including validation and post-deployment review. • Manage cloud storage artifacts such as snapshots and unused volumes by tracking lifecycle status and removing obsolete resources. • Coordinate certificate issuance and renewal activities for externally accessible websites and services. • Fulfill infrastructure change requests such as server resizing and capacity adjustments to align resources with operational needs. • Handle incidents and service requests through the ticketing queue, delivering timely resolution for user and system concerns. • Review server records and supporting system data on a scheduled basis to ensure accuracy, completeness, and audit readiness. • Partner with stakeholders to gather requirements for new capabilities, support service implementation, and contribute recommendations for process and technology improvements. • Create and maintain technical documentation, including procedures, standards, and support materials for cloud operations.
2026-11-04T00:00:00Z

Cyber Security Engineer

St. Louis Park, MN
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Permanent / Full Time
100000 - 130000 USD / Yearly
We are looking for a Cyber Security Engineer to strengthen and advance the organization’s security posture. This role will focus on protecting infrastructure, applications, and data by building practical safeguards, identifying risks, and supporting secure day-to-day operations. The ideal candidate brings hands-on cybersecurity experience, strong technical judgment, and the ability to work closely with teams across the business to promote resilient and compliant systems. Responsibilities:• Develop and manage security controls that protect enterprise networks, systems, cloud environments, and business-critical applications.• Monitor security events, investigate suspicious activity, and coordinate timely response efforts to reduce operational risk.• Review technical environments against security requirements and help maintain secure, reliable system operations over time.• Identify weaknesses across infrastructure and applications, recommend corrective actions, and drive remediation of vulnerabilities or exposures.• Evaluate external vendors for adherence to organizational security expectations and document risk findings when needed.• Partner with infrastructure, application, and business teams to embed security practices into projects and operational processes.• Track emerging cybersecurity threats, tools, and best practices, and propose meaningful improvements to the overall security program.• Support compliance efforts by aligning security practices with applicable privacy, regulatory, and industry requirements.• Provide technical guidance and practical recommendations to stakeholders on security standards, controls, and everyday best practices.
2026-10-28T00:00:00Z

Staff Software Engineer, AI

Minneapolis, MN
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Permanent / Full Time
175000 - 250000 USD / Yearly
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer, AI to help build the core platform that powers enterprise-grade intelligent agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this role, you will tackle complex technical challenges across distributed systems, applied artificial intelligence, security, and platform engineering while creating reliable capabilities for demanding business use cases. You will work closely with product, engineering, machine learning, and security teams to guide architectural decisions and deliver scalable agent-driven solutions. Responsibilities: • Drive the technical direction of the agent platform, shaping how agents plan tasks, make decisions, manage execution flow, and produce structured outcomes in production environments. • Develop multi-layered memory capabilities that support short-term context, historical interactions, knowledge retrieval, and persistent workflow state while enforcing retention and access policies. • Build secure execution frameworks for agent operations using isolated containerized environments with strong controls for resources, network access, credentials, and tenant separation. • Create dependable orchestration patterns that enable asynchronous processing, delegated work, checkpointing, restartability, retry logic, and recovery from operational failures. • Implement extensible integrations with internal and external tools, ensuring strong authentication, authorization boundaries, and protections against unsafe or manipulated actions. • Establish evaluation frameworks and observability practices to assess quality, reliability, latency, correctness, and cost, then use findings to improve agent performance over time. • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate high-impact business workflows into scalable AI agent capabilities that support complex enterprise needs.
2026-11-02T00:00:00Z

Staff Software Engineer, Applied AI Systems

Minneapolis, MN
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Permanent / Full Time
180000 - 250000 USD / Yearly
We’re hiring a hands-on Staff Software Engineer to lead development in a critical area of AI-enabled product infrastructure. In this role, you will build and evolve the systems that determine what AI-powered experiences can access, use, and reference in real time. This work is central to ensuring outputs are accurate, timely, secure, and grounded in the right information. You will focus on designing and improving retrieval and context systems that support intelligent applications operating in complex, high-trust environments. That includes helping systems identify the right content, manage changing information, and enforce strict access boundaries. You’ll work primarily in Python and collaborate closely with cross-functional partners in product, data, and engineering.This is a highly hands-on role for someone who wants to directly influence the architecture, quality, and safety of AI-driven capabilities. What You’ll Do<ul><li>Lead the design and improvement of retrieval systems that support AI-powered workflows in production environments</li><li>Ensure application outputs are grounded in the right source material, with the appropriate balance of quality, performance, and cost</li><li>Build systems that can process and reason over large volumes of unstructured and structured content</li><li>Develop search and context tools that surface trustworthy source excerpts, references, and relevant content locations</li><li>Maintain alignment between what AI systems can access and what end users are authorized to view</li><li>Help define when AI-generated outputs can be delivered directly and when additional validation or product controls are required</li><li>Influence technical direction across teams and mentor engineers working in adjacent problem spaces</li></ul>
2026-11-03T00:00:00Z

Staff Software Engineer

Minneapolis, MN
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Permanent / Full Time
180000 - 250000 USD / Yearly
We’re seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead technical strategy and execution across a product domain or platform area spanning multiple teams. In this role, you will own outcomes end-to-end by defining success metrics, shaping the roadmap, and driving measurable improvements over time. You will set the architectural direction for scalable APIs, backend services, data platforms, and event-driven systems that operate across team boundaries. You’ll also lead the most complex work related to performance, scalability, and reliability.As a senior technical leader, you will raise the engineering bar across the organization by establishing standards, creating reusable platforms and patterns, improving documentation practices, simplifying systems, and reducing technical debt.You’ll be responsible for making and communicating high-impact technical decisions across architecture, security, performance, cost, and scalability. This includes identifying risks early and designing safeguards before they become incidents.This role requires close partnership with Product, Design, Machine Learning, Client Success, and engineering leadership to shape strategy, turn ambiguous business goals into clear multi-quarter technical plans, and align teams on execution.You will also help define how the organization adopts AI-assisted and agentic development practices by establishing guardrails for verification, security, and human accountability in production decisions, while measuring the real impact these tools create.In addition, you will mentor senior engineers, influence technical direction across the organization, lead architecture reviews, and remain hands-on with the highest-impact technical work.
2026-11-03T00:00:00Z

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