Staff Engineer, Cloud Engineering

Cloud Platform Engineering & Operations (30%) 

• Design, build, and optimize Azure platform components including App Services, Azure Functions, Key Vaults, and API Management. 

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Bicep for scalable and secure resource provisioning. 

• Implement observability patterns across infrastructure and workloads using tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights. 

• Collaborate with architecture, security, and operations teams to ensure platforms meet SLAs, DR/RTO requirements, and compliance expectations. 

Power Platform Enablement (30%) 

• Develop and maintain automation for Power Platform lifecycle management, including ALM pipelines and environment provisioning. 

• Implement data loss prevention (DLP) policies, app usage reporting, and licensing optimization for Power Platform components. 

• Collaborate with Governance and Security teams to establish safe, compliant citizen development frameworks. 

• Provide technical guidance to Power Platform users and support solution acceleration across the organization. 

AKS Platform & DevOps Practices (20%) 

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps to deploy containerized workloads into AKS. 

• Implement secure AKS architectures, including ingress, autoscaling, monitoring, and security controls. 

• Enable GitOps patterns and promote modern deployment practices in collaboration with product engineering teams. 

• Contribute to DevSecOps initiatives and embed security, performance, and resiliency into deployment pipelines. 

Platform Process & Maturity Improvements (20%) 

• Lead initiatives to improve cloud platform operational processes, including incident management, platform health, and self-service enablement. 

• Define platform engineering standards and reusable blueprints to reduce manual effort and increase team efficiency. 

• Contribute to FinOps and cost optimization practices through resource tagging, usage reporting, and automation. 

• Promote knowledge sharing and engineering excellence across teams through documentation, workshops, and reusable patterns.