Technical Lead, Platform Engineering

Job summary

The Technical Lead, Platform Engineering is responsible for leading the assessment, migration, and ongoing architecture of the Azure cloud-native environment, including platform governance, observability, identity, and security across multiple Azure subscriptions.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Azure certifications such as AZ-400, AZ-104, or AZ-305
• Working knowledge of the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework and landing zone design principles
• 5+ years' experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering roles
• 2+ years' experience in a lead or senior technical capacity
• Proven experience migrating live production workloads
• Experience operating multiple Azure subscriptions/landing zones

Responsibilities

• Audit current production applications, resource groups, and subscription placement
• Design and execute migration plans into the new subscription/resource-group structure
• Partner with product and engineering teams during the ideation phase
• Establish reusable IaC modules, reference architectures, and naming/tagging standards
• Define and enforce subscription strategy and management group structure
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption across all environments
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Functions, App Service, and Static Web Apps deployments
• Manage cost visibility and optimization across all subscriptions
• Own observability strategy end-to-end
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for platform-level issues
• Establish and maintain runbooks for migration, deployment, and recovery scenarios
• Own identity and access strategy via Microsoft Entra ID
• Implement network and security boundaries
• Enforce least-privilege access across all subscriptions
• Act as the senior technical voice on DevOps/infrastructure decisions
• Communicate migration plans, tradeoffs, and platform roadmap clearly
• Empower the team by delegating responsibility and monitoring progress
• Champion new ideas for emerging AI workloads on Azure AI Foundry

Skills

Relocation