Lead end-to-end operations and administration of Azure cloud infrastructure in a high-availability environment. Manage, mentor, and develop a team of L1/L2/L3 engineers, including task allocation, performance management, and career development. Act as the primary escalation point for critical (P1/P2) incidents, driving root cause analysis and long-term remediation. Ensure effective team response to incidents, service requests, and alerts within defined SLAs. Architect, implement, and optimize Azure solutions for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. Establish and enforce operational standards, governance policies, and best practices across the team. Drive automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Azure DevOps. Oversee monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks to ensure proactive issue detection. Lead patch management, vulnerability remediation, and system hardening for Windows and Linux environments. Manage change, release, ...