Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Job summary

This senior platform engineering role provides hands-on ownership of Azure and hybrid cloud infrastructure, serving as an escalation point for complex platform and production issues. The engineer designs and operates Azure services, automates deployments with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD, and leads backup, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience efforts. The role also manages platform reliability, security, capacity, and cost while supporting IT service management and regulatory compliance.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and at least 8 years of related experience and training, or an equivalent combination.
• At least 8 years of progressively responsible systems, cloud, infrastructure, or platform engineering experience, including 5+ years of hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.
• Deep knowledge of Azure and Microsoft infrastructure, including identity, Windows Server, DNS, Group Policy, certificates, Microsoft 365 integration, networking, storage, compute, and Key Vault.
• Strong PowerShell, scripting, API, and automation experience.
• Hands-on Terraform and/or Bicep/ARM experience, including source control and peer-reviewed deployment practices.
• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or comparable configuration-management tools; Chef or Puppet preferred.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or comparable CI/CD automation.
• Knowledge of Windows and Linux, virtualization, enterprise storage, containers, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, and cyber resilience.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills; able to balance reliability, security, cost, technical debt, and business needs.
• Rubrik administration, VMware vSphere, Azure Virtual Desktop, SQL PaaS, containers, Kubernetes, application delivery, APIs, hybrid networking, or regulated-industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior hands-on engineer and escalation point for complex cloud, infrastructure, and production issues.
• Design, implement, and operate Azure compute, storage, networking, identity, security, and shared services.
• Develop reusable platform standards and automation using Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, scripting, APIs, and CI/CD.
• Own Entra ID, Active Directory, Windows Server, DNS, Group Policy, PKI, Microsoft 365 integration, Azure Virtual Desktop, Key Vault, and SQL platform services.
• Lead backup, recovery, retention, disaster recovery, and cyber-resilience engineering and testing.
• Manage platform lifecycle, availability, capacity, performance, patching, security, and technical currency across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Evaluate cloud, automation, AI, and platform-engineering capabilities for security, maturity, cost, value, and supportability.
• Collaborate with IT leadership, business partners, technology teams, and vendors on budgeting, licensing, capacity planning, vendor management, cloud cost optimization, ITSM, and compliance.

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Relocation