Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Eliassen Group is recruiting for an unnamed client seeking a Sr Platform Engineer I. The role contributes to the design and implementation of cloud platform capabilities, infrastructure automation, security, observability, and developer self-service to improve reliable software delivery.
Responsibilities
- Implement and contribute to the design of platform environments across cloud compute, storage, networking, and runtime layers leveraging Azure IaaS and PaaS
- Deploy and operate containerized platform-native runtime services
- Implement infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code
- Develop, maintain, and enhance reusable platform components and automation frameworks based on platform patterns and standards
- Implement security controls and policy enforcement per platform standards
- Implement identity, access, and secrets management patterns
- Enable compliance and governance through automated guardrails
- Implement monitoring and logging solutions and support observability
- Implement and support redundant, fault tolerant, and automated recovery mechanisms using zonal and multi-region patterns
- Monitor platform performance and contribute to cost optimization
- Enable consistent application deployment patterns and workflows
- Support, build, and enhance developer tooling and CI/CD platform capabilities
- Implement and maintain self-service templates and contribute to golden paths
- Contribute to abstraction layers and APIs for infrastructure and platform services
- Troubleshoot platform and infrastructure issues and perform root cause analysis
- Collaborate with team members and share knowledge
- Implement and support messaging, eventing, and API capabilities
- Enable event-driven and asynchronous communication patterns across systems
- Utilize and contribute to reusable integration patterns for application and platform services
- Perform other duties as assigned and comply with all policies and standards
Skills
- 3 or more years in cloud platform engineering, software engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps with hands-on work across IaaS, PaaS, AI, and containers
- Experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated platform provisioning with proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language
- Experience contributing to DevOps or DevSecOps practices with cross-team collaboration
- Ability to troubleshoot complex systems and improve platform reliability
- Working knowledge of identity and access management and securing cloud platform resources
- Experience implementing or supporting observability including logging, monitoring, and performance diagnostics
- Strong background creating secure cloud architectures for Internet-facing applications
- Strong leadership, interpersonal, influencing, collaboration, and negotiation skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience
- High School Diploma required if substituting equivalent experience
- Exposure to cloud migration and modernization from on-premises
- Exposure to AI/ML platform services
- Experience with microservices architectures and asynchronous integration using queuing and messaging platforms
- Exposure to platform security and compliance controls, developer self-service, and cost optimization practices
- Experience with Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS offerings
- Microsoft Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator, Developer, Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Azure AI Engineer Associate, or AI Fundamentals within 1.5 years
Benefits
- Remote work
- Company-provided technology equipment
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