Azure Platform Engineer
The Azure Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, managing, and optimizing Microsoft Azure platform services to provide a secure, scalable, and resilient cloud foundation for the organisation. The role ensures platform reliability, security, governance, and operational excellence through automation, Infrastructure as Code, and standardized cloud services. Acting as a key liaison between operations, architects, security teams, and application owners, the engineer translates business and technical requirements into enterprise-grade Azure platform capabilities. All Azure resources, configurations, and platform services must be deployed and managed exclusively through Terraform and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring consistency, compliance, and repeatability across all environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, operate, and continuously improve the Microsoft Azure platform, ensuring a secure, scalable, and resilient cloud foundation for application and product teams.
- Deploy, manage, and maintain Azure infrastructure and platform services using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), ensuring all resources are fully automated, version-controlled, and reproducible.
- Develop and maintain Azure Landing Zones, governance frameworks, platform standards, and reusable cloud services aligned with enterprise architecture principles.
- Monitor platform health, performance, availability, security, and cost efficiency while performing troubleshooting, patching, capacity management, and lifecycle management activities.
- Collaborate with cloud architects, security teams, DevOps teams, and application owners to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable cloud services.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, GitOps practices, automation frameworks, and platform engineering capabilities to improve operational efficiency and consistency.
- Manage and optimize Azure networking, connectivity, private access patterns, DNS, and hybrid integration services between Azure and enterprise environments.
- Ensure compliance with security, governance, backup, disaster recovery, regulatory, and operational standards across the Azure platform.
- Manage Azure identity, authentication, authorization, RBAC, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Managed Identities, and identity governance controls.
- Operate and maintain core Azure platform services including networking, storage, compute, container platforms, monitoring, security services, and platform management tooling.
- Drive continuous improvement through automation, standardization, documentation, self-service capabilities, and platform engineering best practices.
- Support incidents, problems, changes, service requests, and root cause investigations while maintaining agreed service levels and operational excellence.
- Provide technical guidance and enablement to engineering teams consuming Azure platform services.
- Enforce the principle that all Azure deployments, configurations, and modifications are performed exclusively through Terraform and approved CI/CD deployment pipelines, with no manual changes permitted in production environments.
- Promote cloud security best practices, Zero Trust principles, and operational resilience across the Azure estate.
