Staff Azure Cloud Engineer, Automation

Come for the Challenge. Stay for the Experience.

At Holthouse, we believe every challenge presents an opportunity to positively impact our clients and people. Talented and ambitious individuals who seek limitless professional opportunities thrive at Holthouse. Our team is known for its technical skill and ability to help clients address complex business issues all while investing in and supporting our people to provide a rewarding employee experience.

What We Do and Who We Serve

Holthouse is a tax, audit, advisory, and business management firm and one of the largest accounting firms in the country. Ranked in the top 30 nationally and the largest based in Los Angeles, Holthouse brings the scale and depth of a national firm together with a high-touch, shareholder-led client experience.

Since 1991, we have served high-net-worth individuals and families, middle-market companies, private equity firms and their portfolio companies across complex financial, tax and business matters. Our teams combine deep technical expertise, specialized knowledge and sharp judgment with direct access, responsiveness and collaboration - giving clients the right expertise and a clear path forward when it matters most.

The firm’s national and global reach is extended by its affiliation with Moore North America, Inc. (MNA) and Moore Global Network Limited, an independent and global accountancy and business advisory network of CPA and financial services firms located throughout the United States and around the globe. Visit hcvt.com to learn more.

We Live Our Core Values

Our values guide us in our day-to-day interactions with our clients and each other—Integrity at our Core; Building Success Together; Passion for Excellence; and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. We are focused and committed to the needs of our clients and our team.

Discover How Far You Can Go.

Opportunities abound at Holthouse. Our firm has experienced steady growth since its founding in 1991 and continues to expand its client service offerings, creating new opportunities for professionals to grow their careers. We make significant investments in training and provide interesting, diverse, and intellectually stimulating work for our teams—the kind of work that helps you develop and refine your skills to advance in the profession.

Hybrid Work

Holthouse currently offers a hybrid work model that allows eligible employees to work both remotely and in the office, based on business needs and team coordination. When working remotely, employees are expected to meet the same performance standards, adhere to the same policies, and maintain the same level of communication, collaboration, and responsiveness as working in the office. Please note that this arrangement is not guaranteed and subject to change at any time. We will strive to provide reasonable notice of any changes to your work location or schedule whenever possible.

About the Role

We are creating a new Azure cloud platform to serve as the foundation for a multi-year cloud modernization program. We need a Lead Azure Cloud Engineer who can walk in, take design ownership, and start building in week one. This is a hands-on, individual-contributor role: you will write the code yourself, stand up the pipelines yourself, and set the technical bar the rest of the teams build against.

You are the senior-most and dedicated cloud engineering voice on this program. You need to be well-rounded: as comfortable troubleshooting a firewall rule or a network route as you are writing a Terraform module or designing the pipeline that deploys it. You will need to work with the firm's existing IT, security, and network teams to land on shared standards, and then you're the one who codifies them into automation.

Tools and Stack You'll Work In

Azure (landing zone, networking, Entra ID) - Terraform + Terraform Cloud - Azure Verified Modules - GitHub Actions - Microsoft Defender for Cloud - Azure Policy - Azure Monitor / Log Analytics - GitHub Copilot / Anthropic Claude (AI-assisted delivery). Our policy-as-code and shift-left scanning has not been finalized; helping evaluate and select this tooling is part of the role.

An internal developer platform pattern for self-service application delivery (e.g. HashiCorp HCP Waypoint, which integrates with HCP Terraform).