Cloud Platform Architect – Azure, Terraform & PostgreSQL

Skills

• Infrastructure & Automation
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Terraform (primary and non-negotiable)
• CII/CD pipeline automation
• Bitbucket, Jenkins, XLR, AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions
• Azure Architecture
• Strong Azure architecture experience
• compute, storage, networking, and platform services
• Enterprise-scale Azure landing zones
• management groups, subscriptions, and governance models
• Compute platforms
• Azure VMs, App Services, Azure Functions, AKS (architecture-level understanding)
• Identity & Security
• Identity & access management using Entra ID (Azure AD), RBAC, PIM, and managed identities
• Security architecture
• Zero Trust principles, Azure Defender, and secure baseline controls
• Secrets & encryption
• Azure Key Vault, certificate and key lifecycle management
• Policy & compliance
• Azure Policy, initiatives, and governance enforcement at scale
• Networking
• Azure networking (hands-on)
• hub-spoke VNETs, subnets, NSGs, UDRs, and routing
• Private connectivity
• Private Endpoints, Azure DNS (public/private), name resolution patterns
• Observability & Resilience
• Observability & operations
• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerting and diagnostics
• High availability & DR design
• availability zones, regional failover, and backup strategies

Qualifications

• Experience with one or more cloud database platforms
• PostgreSQL — managed cloud PostgreSQL (Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server)
• Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, or equivalent cloud-native database services
• Database security, encryption at rest/transit, and backup/restore strategies
• Performance tuning and query optimization on cloud database platforms
• Strong communication skills
• Able to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Collaborative mindset with experience working across engineering, security, and compliance teams
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, client-facing delivery environments
• Hands-on coder: does not just design, but actively builds and validates solutions

Additional Information

• Inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.
• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
• Generous paid leave and holidays.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

Pay Range

$140,000 - $190,000

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.