Azure DevOps/Platform Engineer

Azure DevOps / Platform Engineer

Location: US



Experience: 7+ Years



Cloud Ecosystem: Microsoft Azure

Job Summary

We are seeking a hands-on Azure DevOps / Platform Engineer to build and operate the cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, and platform capabilities supporting enterprise Data, AI/ML, and Forward Deployed Engineering workloads.

The ideal candidate will have deep Azure experience with strong expertise in Kubernetes/AKS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, containerization, observability, security, and production operations.

This role will work closely with Data Engineers, AI/ML Engineers, Forward Deployed Engineers, and Architects to rapidly take solutions from development into secure, scalable production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, automate, and operate Microsoft Azure infrastructure.

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and related technologies.

• Deploy and operate containerized workloads using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

• Automate cloud infrastructure using Terraform, Bicep, or equivalent Infrastructure-as-Code technologies.

• Build reusable platform capabilities and deployment frameworks for engineering teams.

• Support deployment of Data Engineering, Databricks, AI/ML, APIs, and application workloads.

• Automate environment provisioning across development, test, staging, and production environments.

• Implement secrets and certificate management using Azure Key Vault.

• Implement Azure identity, RBAC, networking, security, and access-control patterns.

• Establish logging, monitoring, alerting, and observability.

• Build deployment patterns for APIs, microservices, data applications, and AI workloads.

• Implement automated security and quality controls within CI/CD pipelines.

• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, networking, Kubernetes, deployment, and application issues.

• Improve platform availability, scalability, resiliency, security, and performance.

• Optimize Azure infrastructure and cloud costs.

• Partner directly with engineering teams to remove deployment and infrastructure bottlenecks.

• Support rapid prototyping while ensuring successful solutions can transition into enterprise production environments.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, or related experience.

• Strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.

• Azure DevOps.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

• Kubernetes.

• Docker/containerization.

• Terraform and/or Bicep.

• CI/CD pipeline development.

• Infrastructure as Code.

• Azure Key Vault.

• Azure networking.

• Azure identity and RBAC.

• Git.

• Python, PowerShell, Bash, or equivalent scripting.

• Monitoring, logging, and observability.

• Strong production troubleshooting skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Azure Monitor and Application Insights.

• Azure Databricks platform/infrastructure experience.

• Azure OpenAI / Azure AI infrastructure exposure.

• Helm.

• GitHub Actions.

• Argo CD/GitOps.

• DevSecOps and automated security scanning.

• Microsoft Fabric infrastructure exposure.

• Healthcare enterprise experience.