Cloud Platform Senior Engineer

What success looks like in this role:

• Manage and operate Azure-based infrastructure (IaaS / PaaS) ensuring high availability and reliability

  Monitor and maintain SLA/SLO compliance for cloud services

  Perform incident, problem, and change management aligned to ITIL practices

  Troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues across hybrid environments (on-prem + Azure)

  Ensure stabiliy, financial and security compliance across cloud workloads

  Optimize operational performance, including:

  • Capacity management
  • Resource utilization
  • Cost control (FinOps alignment)

  Design and implement cloud solutions in Azure (Landing Zones, networking, identity, compute)

  Support delivery of cloud migration and modernization initiatives

  Collaborate with architects and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions

  Participate in solution validation, readiness, and go-live support

  Ensure all solutions follow enterprise standards, governance, and security frameworks

  Develop and maintain IaC templates using Bicep for Azure deployments

  • Standardize and automate:
  • Infrastructure provisioning
  • Configuration management

  Environment consistency (Dev / Test / Prod)

  Promote modular, reusable, and governed IaC practices

  Integrate IaC into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps)

  Reduce manual provisioning and enforce repeatability and compliance

  Design and implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps

  Automate build, release, and infrastructure deployment processes

  Enable GitOps / DevOps practices across cloud platform teams

  Streamline operational tasks through scripting and automation (PowerShell / CLI)

  Drive adoption of:

  • Automated testing
  • Version-controlled infrastructure
  • Continuous delivery

  Implement and mature SRE principles across operations:

  • SLO / SLA definition and tracking
  • Error budgets
  • Reliability engineering practices

  Drive automation-first approach to reduce manual intervention

  Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and continuous improvement initiatives

  Reduce incident volume and MTTR through engineering-driven solutions

  Collaborate in blameless postmortems and reliability reviews

You will be successful in this role if you have:

Strong experience in Azure cloud operations and engineering, including management of IaaS/PaaS services in enterprise environments

Proven background in hybrid infrastructure environments (on-prem + Azure) with solid understanding of networking, identity, and security

Hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep (or ARM/Terraform), with focus on standardization, automation, and governance

Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, including automation of infrastructure and application deployments

Solid knowledge of cloud observability and monitoring practices, using tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and/or Grafana

Experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including SLO/SLA management, incident reduction, and automation-driven operations

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across cloud and platform services, with ability to manage complex production environments

Familiarity with ITIL-based operational processes (Incident, Problem, Change), ensuring alignment between operations and engineering

Experience driving cloud optimization initiatives, including performance, scalability, and cost (FinOps awareness)

Ability to contribute to innovation and modernization initiatives such as IaC adoption, observability maturity, and AIOps

Strong collaboration and communication skills, with ability to work across engineering, operations, and customer stakeholders

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