Lead Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
About The Position
The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer leads the modernization of our cloud environment by driving the implementation of advanced Azure PaaS and application platform capabilities that enable the delivery of scalable, secure, and modern cloud-native applications. The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for building scalable, enterprise-ready environments that empower our AI, Data, and Application teams to deploy workloads independently, replacing manual processes with automated, self-service APIs and CI/CD blueprints. By abstracting the underlying complexities of Azure PaaS and Kubernetes, this position will enable a streamlined, high-performance experience for our engineering teams. The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer will build and operate these platforms, ensuring our application teams can deploy, run, and scale services reliably and securely.
Requirements
- 8–12+ years in cloud engineering with a focus on application platforms, PaaS services, and container orchestration.
- Deep experience with AKS / Azure Container Apps, API Management, Service Bus / Event Grid, and Databricks / Snowflake integrations.
- Hands-on experience logging, monitoring, and diagnosing distributed systems to ensure platform health.
- Strong coding ability in Python, Go, or .NET capable of building custom tools, automation, and platform integrations.
- Solid experience with Docker and Kubernetes operations, including deployments, scaling, and deep-level troubleshooting.
- Proficient in implementing Managed Identity, Key Vault, and modern application authentication patterns.
- Expert-level skill in Terraform or Bicep, including the development of reusable, version-controlled modules.
- Proven experience building and maintaining pipelines, with a focus on integrating automated testing and security controls.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve our cloud platform to provide standardized, self-service capabilities that support the modernization of our application portfolio.
- Lead the design, implementation, and operation of Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes (AKS) environments, ensuring scalable, high-performance runtime environments.
- Architect and automate the deployment of data-intensive platforms, including Azure Databricks and Snowflake, ensuring seamless integration with our application stack.
- Work directly with development teams to debug deployment and runtime issues, improve application reliability, and drive platform stability through continuous improvements.
- Participate in on-call rotations, incident response, and root cause analysis to maintain high platform availability and performance.
- Implement secure design patterns using Managed Identities and Azure Key Vault to ensure secret management and service-to-service authentication.
- Build and maintain API-driven integrations to automate provisioning and lifecycle management for application, AI, and data workloads.
- Define and enforce automated standards using IaC (Terraform/Bicep) and policy-as-code to ensure security and compliance at the point of deployment.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps to standardize application deployment, environment promotion, and release automation.
- Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting using Application Insights and Log Analytics to ensure platform health and support troubleshooting across distributed systems.
Benefits
- Access to competitively priced, high-quality health care options through Aetna, MetLife and EyeMed
- employer-paid Short Term and Long Term disability, basic life and AD&D insurance
- employee-paid life, Legal Resources, and Aflac supplemental options
- 401(K), with up to $5K employer match
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 3 weeks of paid parental leave
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for dependent care
- 12 weeks of paid maternity leave through our Short-Term Disability Plan
- free and low-cost mental health resources and support services through our Employee Assistance Program
- tuition and certification reimbursement
- 15 days of vacation (increases with tenure)
- 6 days of paid sick leave
- no-cost coverage for identity theft or travel mishaps
- great discounts on buying a Stanley Martin home
- discounts with our partners in mortgage and title services
- cell phone service discounts through Verizon
- advanced pay option through Dayforce Wallet
- Giving Back Program; with up to $250 match, 8 hours leave and more
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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