Overview
The Senior Platform Engineer will play a pivotal role in a newly formed Cloud Platform Engineering team dedicated to building a greenfield Azure platform for a regulated banking venture. Working as a senior individual contributor, the engineer will tackle complex platform engineering challenges within a large Azure environment while ensuring high standards of security, scalability, and compliance. This position emphasizes ownership and leadership through technical expertise rather than people management, fostering a collaborative and high-quality engineering environment.
Responsibilities
- Own and deliver high-risk and complex platform projects.
- Build and enhance Azure landing zones and internal platform services.
- Deliver infrastructure-as-code solutions, CI/CD, and self-service tooling.
- Challenge design assumptions through practical coding implementations.
- Collaborate with engineers to unblock project delivery and enhance engineering standards.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers in best practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of infrastructure engineering experience in Azure environments.
- Expertise in Terraform at scale, including modules and patterns.
- Strong knowledge of Azure networking, security, and governance.
- Experience working in regulated environments, such as financial services or healthcare.
- Proficiency with CI/CD and automation tools like Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure, identity, and security issues.
- Experience with TDD and automated testing for infrastructure changes.