Azure Platform Engineer for APS

Job summary

The Azure Platform Engineer role focuses on building and evolving platform capabilities for internal DevOps teams, ensuring secure and compliant cloud services. Key responsibilities include designing self-service Azure capabilities, developing reusable automation and templates, and embedding security and compliance controls into platform products.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure platform services and cloud-native patterns.
• Experience with managed Azure services, platform automation and reusable service patterns.
• Understanding of Azure networking, private connectivity, identity, RBAC, Managed Identities and security controls.
• Experience with Azure Policy, governance, compliance and secure-by-default platform design.
• Knowledge of Azure Landing Zones and enterprise-scale cloud platform principles is preferred.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep and/or ARM.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps and/or GitHub.
• Good scripting or programming skills, for example PowerShell, Python, C# or Go.
• Experience building APIs, automation workflows, templates or platform integration patterns is a plus.
• Experience operating business critical cloud platform services.
• Understanding of monitoring, observability, troubleshooting and operational excellence.
• Awareness of service lifecycle management, support models, documentation and runbooks.
• Understanding of cloud cost optimization and efficient consumption of Azure services is a plus.
• Product oriented mindset: able to balance consumer needs, risk, standardization and scalability.
• Comfortable engaging with internal DevOps teams, stakeholders, security teams and other platform teams.
• Able to explain technical topics clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Growth mindset, service orientation and a strong sense of ownership.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building self-service Azure capabilities for internal DevOps teams.
• Developing reusable platform products, automation, templates, APIs and integration patterns.
• Improving developer experience by making Azure services easier, safer and faster to consume.
• Embedding security, compliance, policy, identity, networking and governance controls into platform capabilities.
• Operating platform services with a focus on reliability, observability, supportability and continuous improvement.
• Engaging with consuming DevOps teams to understand adoption barriers, gather feedback and improve APS products.
• Collaborating with other Azure platform teams across FSCP to deliver consistent, enterprise-scale cloud capabilities.
• Contributing to modernization of platform engineering practices, including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and automation.

Skills

Relocation