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.
Key Responsibilities:
- 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 communication is both regular and professional.
- Promote and foster a collaborative culture, Platform Engineering team is engrained into all facets of the Cloud Landscape
- Contribute to the maintenance and grooming of the backlog for the Platform engineering delivery workstream.
- Design and build cloud infrastructure for high availability, disaster recovery and business continuity while ensuring reliability, elasticity, and security.
- Deliver agile and innovative cloud solutions that take advantage of technological advances to allow for cost reduction, standardization, and commoditization.
- Support the delivery of new applications and upgrades through cloud enablement, orchestration, and automation.
- Contribute to the development and improvement of processes and technology standards across the cloud infrastructure and security domains.
- Collaborate with relevant teams to deliver on-going cloud infrastructure enhancements.
- Keep abreast of the latest advances in cloud platforms and services.
- On-board new cloud technologies/services and challenge existing designs or implementations
Technical Skills
- 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).
- Awareness of security control techniques, such as access controls, defence in depth, security-shift-left etc., and how they can be applied in cloud-based systems as well as traditional IT environments.
- Technical proficiency with scripting and automation (using PowerShell and/or Python).
- Experience with Microsoft Intune for endpoint management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Knowledge of ITIL framework, certification an advantage.
