Senior Azure DevOps / Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Woburn, Massachusetts – Boston area
Employment type: Contract (6+ months, potential for extension or conversion)
Work arrangement: Onsite/Hybrid
Work hours: 8am to 5pm

About The Role

We are seeking a Senior Azure DevOps / Cloud Platform Engineer to help build, secure, automate, and support an enterprise Azure environment supporting AI and data initiatives. This is a hands-on platform engineering role. The ideal candidate has strong experience with Azure, Terraform, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, networking, identity, and cloud security and can work closely with data, application, cybersecurity, and architecture teams. The team already has an engineer focused heavily on Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Foundry. This hire will complement that resource by bringing additional depth across Azure platform engineering, DevOps, security, governance, and infrastructure automation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Azure infrastructure supporting enterprise AI and data workloads
• Develop and maintain Terraform infrastructure modules
• Build and manage Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Support Microsoft Fabric, Azure AI Foundry, and related platform environments
• Implement Azure security, identity, networking, and governance controls
• Manage deployments across Dev, Test, and Production environments
• Monitor platform performance, availability, cost, and resource utilization
• Troubleshoot complex Azure infrastructure and deployment issues
• Implement cloud governance using tools such as Azure Policy and Microsoft Purview
• Partner with cybersecurity, data, application, networking, and architecture teams
• Develop technical documentation, standards, and operational procedures

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering
• 3+ years of hands-on Azure production experience
• Strong Terraform / Infrastructure as Code experience
• Strong Azure DevOps and CI/CD experience, including YAML pipelines
• Strong understanding of Azure Networking, including:
  • VNets
  • Subnets
  • NSGs
  • Private Endpoints
  • DNS
  • Routing
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID / Azure RBAC
• Experience with Azure Key Vault
• Experience with Azure Monitor / Log Analytics
• Experience building and supporting secure Azure environments across Dev/Test/Production
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Preferred Experience

• Microsoft Purview
• Microsoft Fabric / OneLake
• Azure AI Foundry
• Azure OpenAI
• Azure AI Search
• Azure Policy / cloud governance
• AKS
• API Management
• Bicep
• PowerShell or Python
• Containerization
• AI/data platform infrastructure
• Financial services or other highly regulated enterprise environments

Pay

$70 - 90 per hour