Cloud Platform Engineer III

Safety National•Saint Louis, MO

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Cloud Platform Engineer III, you will play a pivotal role in enabling development and operations teams through robust, scalable, and secure platform capabilities. You will help build the foundation that empowers teams to deliver software efficiently, reliably, and securely. In this role, you will design, implement, and maintain self-service platform capabilities that streamline application delivery, observability, and operational workflows across the organization. You will develop infrastructure and tooling that supports scalable CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and deployment automation using technologies such as Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates. You will also standardize and automate platform operations, including provisioning, configuration management, secrets management, and runtime orchestration. You will engineer comprehensive observability solutions across logging, metrics, and traces using tools such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog, while implementing reliability patterns and SRE-inspired practices to improve service performance, availability, and scalability. Security will be integrated into your work as you embed secure-by-default practices into platform tooling and pipelines, support DevSecOps principles, and help ensure platform components and services adhere to security baselines and compliance standards. Collaboration is essential to your success. You will work closely with application developers, cloud engineers, data teams, cybersecurity, and product teams to support the smooth integration of platform services across the software development lifecycle. You will mentor team members, foster continuous learning and shared ownership, participate in incident response and root cause analysis, and contribute to blameless post-mortems that improve platform resilience. You will also serve as an escalation point for platform monitoring, tools, and general cloud infrastructure and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed.

Requirements

Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
Minimum 6 years of experience in Information Systems or a related technical field
Experience with Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates
Experience with observability technologies such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog
Experience with DevSecOps principles and secure-by-default platform engineering
Demonstrated expertise in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, including identity, networking, and compute services
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, and Ansible
Strong background in CI/CD systems, containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes on Azure, and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings
Proficiency in observability tooling and practices across cloud-native and hybrid environments
Solid understanding of cloud security practices and experience integrating security into infrastructure and application delivery pipelines
Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts for varied audiences
Demonstrated leadership and mentoring capabilities in a cross-functional team environment
Ability to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed

Nice To Haves

Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Professional certifications relevant to cloud, DevOps, or security
Experience implementing SRE-inspired reliability practices
Experience participating in incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems
Experience mentoring technical team members and fostering a culture of continuous learning and shared ownership

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain self-service platform capabilities that streamline application delivery, observability, and operational workflows.
Develop infrastructure and tooling that supports scalable CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and deployment automation using technologies such as Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates.
Standardize and automate platform operations, including provisioning, configuration management, secrets management, and runtime orchestration.
Engineer comprehensive observability solutions across logging, metrics, and traces using tools such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog.
Implement reliability patterns and SRE-inspired practices to improve service performance, availability, and scalability.
Embed secure-by-default practices into platform tooling and pipelines, support DevSecOps principles, and help ensure platform components and services adhere to security baselines and compliance standards.
Work closely with application developers, cloud engineers, data teams, cybersecurity, and product teams to support the smooth integration of platform services across the software development lifecycle.
Mentor team members, foster continuous learning and shared ownership.
Participate in incident response and root cause analysis, and contribute to blameless post-mortems that improve platform resilience.
Serve as an escalation point for platform monitoring, tools, and general cloud infrastructure.
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed.
Protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and technology assets against unauthorized disclosure, destruction and/or alteration, in accordance with Safety National policies, standards, and procedures.