The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing cloud platform services. These services must be secure, scalable, and automated. The primary focus is on Microsoft Azure, but the environment spans multiple clouds, including AWS and GCP. You will lead complex technical programs, advances reusable architecture patterns, and strengthen automation and governance practices across assigned platform domains. The Senior Engineer also mentors mid-level engineers and partners with cross-functional teams. This ensures that cloud platforms are reliable, compliant, and aligned with enterprise standards and operational goals. You will report to a Manager.
What you'll be doing
- Design, implement, and improve cloud platform services with a primary focus on Azure, supporting multi-cloud integrations with AWS and GCP where required.
- Lead complex platform programs across compute, networking, identity, and storage domains, ensuring reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Develop infrastructure-as-code solutions using Azure Resource Manager (ARM/Bicep), Terraform, and related frameworks across multiple environments.
- Standardize and improve cloud platform configurations, automation workflows, and deployment pipelines to align with enterprise standards.
- You will improve observability, proactive monitoring, self-healing capabilities, and incident reduction across platform services.
- You will lead advanced troubleshooting and incident response efforts, conducting structured root cause analysis and implementing long-term remediation.
- Implement cloud policies, governance controls, and security configurations within Azure and extending equivalent governance and security controls to AWS and GCP.
- Support and guide cloud migration and modernization efforts, including workload onboarding, tenant integration, and hybrid connectivity patterns across Azure, AWS and GCP.
- Collaborate with application, security, networking, and business teams to support cloud adoption, resolve complex issues, and improve platform usability.
- Mentor Level 2 engineers through technical coaching, design reviews, and operational guidance.
Summary of Primary Responsibilities
- Design reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and automation frameworks aligned with enterprise architecture standards.
- Implement and support Azure-native services and configurations, including:
- Virtual Networks (VNets), peering, gateways, and ExpressRoute
- Hub-and-spoke architectures and private endpoint configurations
- Azure DNS (private zones, resolvers, custom configurations)
- Azure Entra (identity, role assignments, multi-tenant configurations, application registrations)
- Azure Policy (definition, assignment, and enforcement)
- Ensure availability, performance, and reliability of cloud platform services, including compute, storage, networking, and backup capabilities.
- Develop automation scripts using PowerShell, Bash, Python, and Azure CLI/SDK tooling.
- Improve deployment processes and platform manageability using Azure DevOps and related CI/CD tooling.
- Support integration with enterprise systems, including RESTful services, identity providers, and third-party vendor solutions.
- Contribute to cost awareness and operational efficiency by supporting resource optimization and understanding Azure billing constructs (subscriptions, billing scopes, enterprise agreements).
- Maintain technical documentation, reference implementations, and operational runbooks.
- 5–9 years of experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, or platform engineering within enterprise environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure as a primary platform, including deployment, configuration, and operations across enterprise-scale environments.
- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code using ARM/Bicep, Terraform, or equivalent frameworks, including multi-environment deployments.
- 5+ years experience with Azure networking architectures, including VNets, routing, DNS, hybrid connectivity, and distributed system design.
- 3+ years of experience with Azure identity and access management, including Entra ID, role-based access control, multi-tenant configurations, and policy enforcement.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash, Python, and cloud provider CLI/SDK tools.
- Experience with Azure DevOps or similar CI/CD platforms supporting automated cloud deployments.
- Working knowledge of Linux/Unix and Windows operating systems in cloud environments.
- Understanding of core networking protocols (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP) and their application in distributed cloud systems.
- 3+ years of experience supporting cloud migration initiatives and integrating on-premises or multi-tenant environments into Azure.
- Knowledge of enterprise cybersecurity practices, risk management processes, and incident response methodologies.
- You will operate independently, lead complex technical efforts, and influence partners.
- We strongly prefer Azure certifications (e.g., AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400); we value AWS/GCP certifications given the multi-cloud scope of this role.
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