Azure Platform Engineer
About The Position
We are seeking an Azure Platform Engineer to lead the design and ongoing ownership of the Azure foundation supporting a multi-year municipal modernization program. This role owns the Azure landing zone, environment structure, CI/CD standards, and infrastructure-as-code strategy. All cloud resources must be provisioned and managed via IaC to ensure repeatability, audit ability, and compliance across the program. This is a hands-on engineering role with platform ownership responsibilities. Application Engineers will rebuild business logic; this role ensures the cloud foundation they deploy into is secure, standardized, auditable, and production-ready.
Requirements
- A Bachelors' degree in a related field and 4+ years' experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure
- Proven experience designing and owning Azure landing zones in enterprise environments
- Strong hands-on Azure experience in regulated or audit-sensitive environments
- Deep experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline design
- Demonstrated ownership of enterprise-scale Infrastructure-as-Code programs (Terraform or Bicep), including governance and enforcement of IaC-only deployment standards
- Experience embedding compliance and security controls into cloud platforms
- Working knowledge of FedRAMP Moderate or comparable compliance frameworks
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting municipal or public sector programs
- Experience leading on-premises (on-prem) to Azure migrations
- Azure certifications (Administrator, DevOps Engineer, Architect)
Responsibilities
- Design and implement (or enhance) Azure landing zone architecture
- Establish and manage dev, test, and production environments with strict separation
- Define secure networking, identity, and role-based access boundaries
- Configure VNETs, NSGs, private endpoints, and hybrid connectivity (VPN / ExpressRoute)
- Establish standardized patterns for App Services, Azure SQL, storage, and shared services
- Define platform standards to be used consistently across consolidated applications
- Design and maintain standardized CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps
- Develop reusable pipeline templates and release patterns
- Implement approval gates, rollback strategies, and deployment controls aligned to audit requirements
- Ensure consistent deployment practices across application teams
- Ensure all infrastructure deployments are executed through CI/CD pipelines using IaC templates (no manual provisioning)
- Establish IaC as the only approved deployment mechanism for cloud resources
- Enforce code review, version control, and change traceability for all infrastructure changes
- Prevent manual configuration drift across environment
- Embed FedRAMP Moderate–aligned controls into platform design
- Implement centralized logging, monitoring, and retention policies
- Configure Azure Policy and Defender for Cloud guardrails
- Implement secrets and certificate management using Azure Key Vault
- Establish audit traceability for infrastructure and deployment changes
- Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning and testing
- Support production deployments and release windows
- Troubleshoot infrastructure and pipeline issues
- Define and maintain platform standards and operational runbooks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
