Azure Platform Engineer

Job Summary Azure Platform Engineer

Mandatory Experience

• 7+ years Azure Platform Engineering experience
• 3+ years supporting production AKS environments
• Experience working in enterprise hub-spoke Azure Landing Zones
• Strong networking, API management, identity, and cloud security expertise

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BCG Platform Technology Stack

Edge & API Layer

• Azure Front Door
• Azure Application Gateway (WAF)
• Azure API Management (APIM)
• API routing and path-based routing
• SSL/TLS certificate management
• DNS configuration and troubleshooting
• API publishing and backend integrations

Required Knowledge

• Front Door → Application Gateway → APIM → AKS architecture
• Public ingress with private backend services
• Path-based routing configuration
• Health probes and backend pools
• APIM networking and private connectivity

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Mandatory Skills

• AKS Cluster Administration
• AKS Networking
• Ingress Controllers
• Internal Load Balancers
• Private AKS Clusters
• Node Pools
• Autoscaling
• Kubernetes Security
• Secrets Management
• Container Networking

Must Understand

• Internal LoadBalancer services
• Private endpoint exposure
• Backend API publishing through APIM
• Health endpoints
• Kubernetes troubleshooting

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Azure Networking

Mandatory Skills

• VNet Design
• Hub-Spoke Architecture
• VNet Peering
• Route Tables (UDR)
• NSG
• Azure Firewall
• Private DNS Zones
• Private Endpoints
• Service Endpoints

Expected Experience

• Working with enterprise hub VNets
• Connectivity through centralized firewall environments
• Shared services networking
• Routing validation and troubleshooting

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Azure Data Services

Databricks Platform

• Databricks Workspace Administration
• Unity Catalog
• Cluster Policies
• Secret Scopes
• Access Control Management
• Databricks Networking
• Delta Lake
• Databricks Monitoring

Azure Data Services

• Azure Data Factory (ADF)
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Event Hub
• Cosmos DB
• ADLS Gen2
• Azure Database for PostgreSQL

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DevOps & CI/CD

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Enterprise
• GitHub Actions
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Release Management
• Branching Strategies
• CI/CD Automation

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Governance & Operations

• Cost Management & Optimization
• Tagging Strategy
• Backup & Disaster Recovery
• High Availability Architecture
• Cloud Governance Framework
• Incident & Problem Management
• Production Support

Preferred Certifications

• AZ-104 Azure Administrator
• AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect
• AZ-400 Azure DevOps Engineer
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)