Azure Cloud and AI App Innovation Customer Engineer

About the role

This role centers on helping small, medium and enterprise customers build, deploy, and scale applications using Azure App Services, API Management, microservices, and container platforms like AKS and Azure Container Apps (ACA). You’ll also guide development teams in integrating AI-driven productivity tools like GitHub Copilot while shaping secure and efficient CI/CD workflows in GitHub and Azure DevOps environments.

Responsibilities

• Help teams adopt DevOps best practices with GitHub and Azure DevOps, optimizing pipelines for scalability, security, and automation.
• Enable containerization strategies using Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure Container Apps (ACA) for elastic, resilient services.
• Integrate GitHub Copilot to accelerate development cycles, improve code quality, and drive AI-assisted developer workflows.
• Assist with API strategy and management, leveraging Azure API Management (APIM) for secure and scalable exposure of services.
• Provide architectural guidance and hands-on support during cloud-native transformations and app re-platforming efforts.
• Owning technical governance across engagements, ensuring alignment with Microsoft best practices and enterprise scalability needs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to remove technical blockers and deliver on high-impact modernization initiatives.

Requirements

• 10- 15+ years in software engineering or cloud architecture roles, with a focus on Azure Platform, Azure Application Services, Architecture & Dev Practices, DevOps & CI/CD and Security & Governance.
• Proven experience modernizing monolithic apps into Microservices and/or container-based architectures.
• Hands-on knowledge of Terraform and/or Bicep.
• Strong customer engagement skills, including the ability to present to both technical and business stakeholders.
• Experience delivering cloud-native solutions across the entire app lifecycle—from architecture and DevOps to scaling and support.

Qualifications

• Must have experience with Terraform and/or Bicep.

Skills

• Azure Application Services: App Services, APIM, Logic Apps, Azure Functions (preferred).
• Architecture & Dev Practices: Microservices, 12-Factor App principles, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), RESTful API design.
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), ACA (Azure Container Apps), Helm.
• DevOps & CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, YAML pipelines.
• AI-Enhanced Dev: GitHub Copilot integration, secure AI-assisted development, and coding at scale.
• Security & Governance: Azure RBAC, workload identity, managed identities, secrets management.
• Infrastructure as Code (IAC): Terraform and/or Bicep.

Benefits

• Flexible work schedule.
• Competitive salary commensurate with experience.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Health and wellness benefits.

Pay

• Commensurate with experience.

Schedule

• TBD.