Sr Azure Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Azure Infrastructure Automation Engineer to help us mature and extend how infrastructure is delivered across our organization. You will grow our standardized, opinionated Terraform module library and expose it through an AI-enabled developer experience—so that engineers can describe what they need and have compliant, production-ready infrastructure generated for them automatically, with our standards and guardrails baked in.

Key Responsibilities

• Refine, harden, and extend our existing IaC framework using Terraform and Terragrunt, improving consistency, maintainability, and quality across environments.
• Expand and standardize our existing Terraform module library, authoring additional modules to broaden Azure coverage, with secure defaults, consistent naming/tagging, and embedded policy guardrails.
• Establish and enforce IaC quality standards using TFLint and policy-as-code, including linting, validation, automated testing, and pre-merge checks.
• Build the AI-assisted self-service platform: stand up and maintain an IaC MCP server and author the agent skills/context that encode our standards, so developers can use Claude Code or GitHub Copilot to query approved modules and generate compliant infrastructure for their projects.
• Automate change management by integrating IaC deployment pipelines with ServiceNow (change requests, approvals, CMDB updates) to keep delivery fast while staying audit-ready.
• Design and implement self-service workflows, scaffolding, and golden paths through Port.io and other developer-portal/automation tooling.
• Write and maintain supporting automation in PowerShell, Python, and Bash.
• Manage identity, access, and authentication patterns through Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), including RBAC and least-privilege design for the platform.
• Partner with development teams to remove provisioning bottlenecks, gather feedback on the self-service experience, and continuously improve it.
• Help grow and mentor the platform team as it scales, championing platform-engineering and self-service principles across the organization.
• Ensure infrastructure and automation are secure, reliable, and compliant with organizational policies and best practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• Mastery-level Terraform and Terragrunt for Infrastructure-as-Code, including authoring reusable modules and managing infrastructure at scale.
• Hands-on experience with TFLint and IaC quality tooling—linting, validation, automated testing, and enforcing standards across a codebase.
• Deep Azure expertise across IaaS and PaaS services and the surrounding ecosystem.
• Proven track record designing standardized, reusable module libraries and opinionated IaC patterns that other teams build on.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in PowerShell, Python, and Bash.
• Solid experience with CI/CD and GitOps workflows for infrastructure delivery.
• Working knowledge of identity, access, and authentication using Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and RBAC.
• A genuine platform-engineering mindset—you care about developer experience and building safe, easy self-service for others.
• Ability to design secure, scalable, and resilient automation solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or integrating MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, or otherwise exposing tools and data to AI coding assistants.
• Familiarity with Claude Code and/or GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted development workflows, including configuring agent skills, context, or guardrails.
• Hands-on experience with Port.io or another Internal Developer Portal (e.g., Backstage).
• Experience automating change management with ServiceNow or similar ITSM platforms.
• Policy-as-code experience (e.g., OPA/Conftest, Sentinel, Azure Policy) and IaC security scanning (Checkov, tfsec/Trivy).
• Infrastructure testing experience (e.g., Terratest, native Terraform tests).
• Familiarity with Kubernetes / AKS and container orchestration.
• Experience with configuration management and orchestration tooling (e.g., Ansible).
• Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and incident-response practices.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across multiple teams.