Azure Cloud Platform Engineer

Salary: $145,600 - 166,400 per year Requirements: Bachelors degree. 5–7 years of hands-on experience supporting Azure infrastructure and services in production. Expertise in several Azure services, such as AKS, App Services, Functions, APIM, Azure SQL/MI, Cosmos DB, Storage, Event Hub/Service Bus, Redis, networking, Private Link, Application Gateway/WAF, or Front Door. Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform (preferred) and/or Bicep, plus Git-based workflows using GitHub or Azure DevOps. SRE experience with SLI/SLO design, error budgets, incident management, root cause analysis, capacity planning, and performance engineering. Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps Pipelines, including artifact/versioning strategies and release governance. Azure observability experience with Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and alerting or automation tools. Solid networking fundamentals, including DNS, TLS, routing, firewalls, and load balancing; identity management with AAD/Entra ID; and secrets management with Key Vault. Proficiency in PowerShell and/or Python, with Linux fundamentals. Strong understanding of Azure security practices, including RBAC, PIM, Azure Policy, and Managed Identities. Responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain Azure landing zones and platform services, including networking, security, and application gateway components. Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and/or Bicep and apply GitOps workflows, including branching, pull requests, and policy checks. Develop reusable modules, pipelines, and deployment patterns for application teams, promoting automation-first practices. Define and track SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability plans for critical services. Implement and improve observability using logs, metrics, traces, and Azure monitoring tools. Plan capacity, test resiliency and disaster recovery, and tune performance across services. Build secure CI/CD pipelines with automated tests, scans, and approvals, and standardize deployment approaches for containerized and PaaS workloads. Apply governance and security controls using Azure Policy, RBAC, PIM, and equivalent tools; manage secrets and certificates and integrate security testing into pipelines. Support vulnerability remediation and patching service-level agreements. Lead incident response on a rotational shift and on-call basis, including triage, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews. Optimize cloud costs through FinOps practices, tagging standards, budgets, and spending alerts. Maintain runbooks, knowledge base articles, and automation for routine operations. Mentor technical colleagues, review designs and pull requests, and contribute to architecture decisions. Partner with application teams to onboard workloads, define nonfunctional requirements, and encourage platform adoption. Technologies: Azure CI/CD Cloud Cosmos DB DevOps Git GitHub GitOps Incident Management Support Linux Load Balancing PaaS PowerShell Python RBAC Redis SQL Security Terraform WAF ASP.NET Firewall Grafana Prometheus More: Were hiring an Azure Engineer with ITOps expertise to help keep critical systems secure, stable, and available. Youll work closely with product, security, and operations teams, with rotational shifts supporting 24/7 coverage. This is a remote contract role with a typical work schedule of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and an advertised pay range of $70–$80 per hour. At Randstad Digital, we welcome applicants of all abilities and provide reasonable accommodations during the application and interview process. Eligible benefits include medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance, short-term disability, and a 401(k) plan. Compensation and benefits eligibility may depend on factors including education, experience, location, duties, and certifications. last updated 40 week of 2026