Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Azure Developer (DevOps + SysOps)

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deploy infrastructure as code (Bicep/Terraform) — networking, APIM, Function hosting, SQL, Key Vault, monitoring
• Build Ansible playbooks/roles for configuration management, agent rollout, OS baselines and patching
• Build multi-stage CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions) with approval gates and tested rollback
• Automate secret rotation, scaling, provisioning/teardown, and routine operations
• Own day-2 operations: monitoring, incident response, patching, backups, capacity and cost review
• Design and prove platform resilience: zone redundancy, retry/throttling, backup/restore drills, defined RTO/RPO
• Own Azure API Management, Azure Functions hosting, Azure SQL, Key Vault, App Insights/Log Analytics, Defender for Cloud, and private networking

Requirements Must-Have Experience

• 8+ years in infrastructure/DevOps/cloud platform engineering, 4+ years hands-on Azure in production
• Strong IaC practice (Bicep and/or Terraform) at module level
• Production Ansible experience (playbooks, roles, secrets integration)
• End-to-end CI/CD pipeline ownership (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)
• Strong Azure networking (VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, NAT Gateway, Front Door/App Gateway with WAF)
• Hands-on, as-code provisioning of APIM, Azure Functions, Azure SQL, Key Vault
• Managed Identity, RBAC, Key Vault lifecycle — no static credentials
• Observability: Application Insights, Log Analytics, KQL, actionable alerting
• Resilience/DR design and execution (backup, PITR, failover drills)
• Day-2 operations ownership against SLAs/SLOs
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell, or Bash
• Ability to work independently to production without close Azure supervision

Highly Desirable

• PCI DSS environment experience; tokenization-based scope reduction
• Microsoft Defender for Cloud (secure score, compliance dashboards)
• Payment gateway (CyberSource, PayPal) and tax engine (Ceretax, Avalara) integrations
• Order management/e-commerce fulfilment integrations; SendGrid or similar
• Legacy PHP/WooCommerce to cloud-native migration background
• Azure certification: AZ-204, AZ-305, or AZ-500