Lead Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve our cloud platform to provide standardized, self-service capabilities that support the modernization of our application portfolio.
• Lead the design, implementation, and operation of Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes (AKS) environments, ensuring scalable, high-performance runtime environments.
• Architect and automate the deployment of data-intensive platforms, including Azure Databricks and Snowflake, ensuring seamless integration with our application stack.
• Work directly with development teams to debug deployment and runtime issues, improve application reliability, and drive platform stability through continuous improvements.
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and root cause analysis to maintain high platform availability and performance.
• Implement secure design patterns using Managed Identities and Azure Key Vault to ensure secret management and service-to-service authentication.
• Build and maintain API-driven integrations to automate provisioning and lifecycle management for application, AI, and data workloads.
• Define and enforce automated standards using IaC (Terraform/Bicep) and CI/CD policy-as-code to ensure security and compliance at the point of deployment.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps to standardize application deployment, environment promotion, and release automation.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting using Application Insights and Log Analytics to ensure platform health and support troubleshooting across distributed systems.

Requirements

• 8–12+ years in cloud engineering with a focus on application platforms, PaaS services, and container orchestration.
• Deep experience with AKS / Azure Container Apps, API Management, Service Bus / Event Grid, and Databricks / Snowflake integrations.
• Hands-on experience logging, monitoring, and diagnosing distributed systems to ensure platform health.
• Strong coding ability in Python, Go, or .NET capable of building custom tools, automation, and platform integrations.
• Solid experience with Docker and Kubernetes operations, including deployments, scaling, and deep-level troubleshooting.
• Proficient in implementing Managed Identity, Key Vault, and modern application authentication patterns.
• Expert-level skill in Terraform or Bicep, including the development of reusable, version-controlled modules.
• Proven experience building and maintaining pipelines, with a focus on integrating automated testing and security controls.

Pay

$191,700.00 to $212,600.00 annually plus bonus