Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) is seeking a Sr Platform Engineer I to join its Platform Engineering and DevOps organization. The role implements and contributes to secure, scalable public cloud capabilities, infrastructure automation, developer self-service, cloud reliability, and software delivery improvements using Microsoft Azure and modern platform engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- Implement and contribute to the design of platform environments across cloud compute, storage, networking, and runtime layers that leverage IaaS and PaaS products on the Azure public cloud
- Deploy and operate containerized platform-native runtime services
- Implement infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Develop, maintain, and enhance reusable platform components and automation frameworks based on established platform patterns and standards
- Implement security controls and policy enforcement defined by platform standards
- Implement identity, access, and secrets management patterns
- Enable compliance and governance through automated guardrails
- Implement monitoring and logging solutions
- Implement and support redundant, fault tolerant, and automated recovery mechanisms that leverage zonal and multi-region cloud tenancy patterns
- Monitor platform performance and contribute to cost optimization efforts
- 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 the evolution of golden paths
- Contribute to abstraction layers and APIs for infrastructure and platform services
- Troubleshoot platform and infrastructure issues
- 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
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Complies with all policies and standards
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience required. If equivalent experience, High School Diploma required
- 3 years experience in cloud platform engineering, software engineering, systems engineering or DevOps roles; with hands-on experience implementing and supporting scalable, distributed systems across IaaS, PaaS, AI, and container-based environments required
- Experience designing and implementing infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated platform provisioning, with proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language required
- Experience working within and contributing to DevOps/DevSecOps practices, including collaboration across development, security, and operations teams required
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex systems, improve platform reliability, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives required
- Working knowledge of identity and access management concepts and securing platform resources in cloud environments required
- Experience implementing or supporting platform observability, including logging, monitoring, and performance diagnostics required
- Strong background in creating secure cloud architectures and implementation for Internet-facing applications
- Strong leadership, interpersonal, influencing, collaboration and negotiation skills required
- Demonstrated ability to interact in a positive, respectful manner and establish and maintain cooperative working relationships
- Ability to display excellent customer service to meet the needs and expectations of both internal and external customers
- Excellent listening and interpersonal communication skills to identify critical core competencies based on success factors and organizational environment
- Ability to effectively organize, prioritize, multi-task and manage time
- Demonstrated accuracy and productivity in a changing environment with constant interruptions
- Demonstrated ability to analyze information, problems, issues, situations, and procedures to develop effective solutions
- Ability to exercise strict confidentiality in all matters
- Primarily sedentary, able to sit for long periods of time
- Ability to see, speak, and hear other personnel and/or objects. Ability to communicate both in verbal and written form. Ability to travel within and around the facility or Work from Home (WFH) environment. Capable of using a telephone, computer keyboard, and mouse. Ability to lift up to 10 lbs
- Work-from-home (WFH) environment
- Exposure to supporting application or infrastructure modernization efforts, including migration from on-premises to cloud environments preferred
- Exposure to AI/ML platform services preferred
- Experience supporting or enabling micro services-based architectures and modern application deployment patterns, including asynchronous system to system integration using queuing and messaging platforms preferred
- Exposure to platform security and compliance controls preferred
- Exposure to developer platform or self-service enablement preferred
- Exposure to cost optimization or resource efficiency practices preferred
- Experience with Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS offering preferred
- Microsoft Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator, Developer, or Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer within 1-1/2 Yrs preferred
- Microsoft Azure certifications, Azure AI Engineer Associate, AI Fundamentals within 1-1/2 Yrs preferred
Benefits
- Remote work-from-home position with remote training
- Company-provided technology equipment
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