We are seeking a forward-thinking Azure Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a Platform Engineer, you will be a key player in designing, implementing, and maintaining cutting-edge Azure-based solutions. The successful candidate will work within the IT Operations realm to support, develop and secure our cloud infrastructure, services, and solutions.
Role:
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to design, deploy, and maintain Azure-based solutions.
- Utilize Bicep and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code to automate the provisioning and management of Azure resources.
- Manage YAML configurations for various deployment processes.
- Deploy and manage monitoring metrics and logging capabilities across systems and applications.
- Championing innovation through containerization and Kubernetes.
- Collaborate with the security team to implement and enforce security best practices across Azure environments.
- Apply industry standards and best practices to ensure system and application security.
- Design, implement, and optimize Azure networking solutions, ensuring high performance, availability, and security.
- Take ownership and be a central point of contact for any reported issues, ensuring regular and professional communication.
Skills required:
- Proven experience as an Azure Platform Engineer or similar role ie DevOps Engineer.
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, ARM or Terraform.
- Experience with Azure DevOps as a CICD tool, able to maintain pipeline repos spanning across multiple projects.
- Proficient in managing YAML configurations for deployment processes.
- In-depth knowledge of Azure networking, including VNet, Subnet, ExpressRoute, and VPN configurations.
- High understanding of cloud infrastructure designs, patterns, and best practices.
- Experience with Microsoft 365, Azure PaaS and IaaS, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), test-driven development, and automated CI/CD.
- Proficiency in PowerShell scripting for automation and configuration management.
- Solid understanding of Azure Active Directory, including identity and access management.
- Experience with containerization tools such as Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes.
- Experience with cloud-focused logging and monitoring tools (preferably using Azure Monitor with Application Insights and Log Analytics).