Azure Platform Engineer
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Experience Required
6+ years
Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.
Job Summary:
We are seeking a skilled Azure Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure. In this role you will own the end-to-end cloud engineering lifecycle, including architecture, infrastructure-as-code, automation, security hardening, cost optimization, observability, and ongoing operational excellence for production workloads. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise across Azure services with strong DevOps engineering practices, and will partner closely with application development, security, and SRE teams to deliver cloud-native solutions that meet demanding business requirements for scalability, reliability, and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Five or more years of cloud engineering experience, with at least three years focused on Microsoft Azure in production environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure core services, including compute, storage, networking, identity, and platform-as-a-service offerings.
- Production-level experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Bicep, or ARM templates.
- Solid experience designing and operating Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters at scale.
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for CI/CD across infrastructure and applications.
- Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Bash, and Python, with the ability to write maintainable automation code.
- Deep understanding of cloud security principles, identity management, and compliance frameworks.
- Experience implementing monitoring, alerting, and observability strategies across distributed workloads.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure DevOps Engineer Expert certification.
- Experience operating hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments spanning Azure and on-premises infrastructure.
- Familiarity with service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd on AKS.
- Exposure to FinOps practices and cloud cost-management tooling.
- Experience with regulated environments such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, or FedRAMP.
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