Cloud Platform Engineer

Job summary

Designs and improves standardized cloud and hybrid platform capabilities, primarily in Microsoft Azure, making infrastructure services more secure, repeatable, supportable, and efficient. Builds infrastructure-as-code and automation workflows using Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Git, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines, while developing governed self-service patterns, improving FinOps visibility, and measuring service delivery outcomes across technical teams.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of progressive experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or a related enterprise IT discipline.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, hybrid infrastructure integration, and cloud compute, networking, storage, identity, and access management.
• Experience designing and maintaining infrastructure as code, automated provisioning, reusable engineering patterns, and CI/CD workflows.
• Proficiency with Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Git, APIs, and enterprise automation tooling.
• Experience collaborating across cloud, infrastructure, network, development, DevOps, cybersecurity, architecture, and operations teams.
• Understanding of platform security guardrails, change governance, observability, resiliency, backup, and production readiness.
• Ability to define and use workflow measures, service-level indicators, and operational data to identify bottlenecks and drive improvement.
• Working knowledge of FinOps, including cost visibility, resource allocation, utilization, right-sizing, and cloud consumption optimization.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills, with the ability to influence technical outcomes without direct management authority.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and maintain reusable cloud and hybrid platform services, primarily in Microsoft Azure.
• Define standardized platform patterns, technical prerequisites, dependencies, approvals, documentation, and support requirements with service-owning teams.
• Apply infrastructure as code, version control, and configuration standards to cloud resources.
• Embed identity and access controls, network connectivity, monitoring, backup, resiliency, and operational readiness into platform patterns.
• Simplify service delivery workflows and automate infrastructure provisioning and change delivery using Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Git, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop governed self-service capabilities with appropriate approvals, security guardrails, ownership, and cost controls.
• Measure service delivery performance, identify bottlenecks, and use operational data and feedback to drive improvements.
• Improve cloud cost visibility, tagging, allocation, utilization, right-sizing, and consumption accountability through FinOps practices.
• Promote continuous improvement through documentation, technical guidance, reusable patterns, and knowledge sharing.

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