Platform Engineer

Location: Columbus, OH (Hybrid) - Locals only. Duration: 6 Months+. Interview Mode: Phone then Video. Technologies: Azure, Kubernetes, Linux, Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor), Terraform, AKS, Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on Azure, including virtual networks, storage accounts, and identity management using Azure Resource Manager (ARM) or Bicep.
• Develop and manage containerized applications and services on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), including cluster provisioning, scaling, security hardening (e.g., RBAC, network policies), and monitoring integration.
• Write and maintain Terraform modules to provision and version-control infrastructure as code (IaC), ensuring state management best practices and integration with CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate system administration tasks and configuration management using Ansible, including OS hardening, patching, and service deployment across Linux environments.
• Implement end-to-end observability solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights to monitor system health, performance, and alerting thresholds.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to define service-level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and incident response procedures within an Agile (Scrum) framework, delivering features in 2-week sprints.
• Contribute to platform security posture by enforcing least-privilege access, secrets management (e.g., Azure Key Vault), and compliance with internal and regulatory standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure issues across compute, network, storage, and orchestration layers in hybrid and cloud-native environments.

Skills

• Ansible
• Linux
• Automation
• Terraform