Microsoft Azure Engineer – Fabric Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in South Africa.

📋 Description

• Design and establish the foundational elements of the Microsoft Fabric platform, including capacities, workspaces, OneLake, environmental structures, and platform configuration.

• Create and oversee DEV, TEST, and PROD environments along with their deployment strategies.

• Implement Infrastructure as Code utilizing Terraform and other automation tools.

• Construct and sustain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub.

• Enforce security, identity, and access controls through Microsoft Entra ID and RBAC.

• Integrate Microsoft Fabric with Azure services and other cloud platforms.

• Develop reusable automation and deployment patterns to guarantee consistency and scalability.

• Assist with monitoring, logging, operational readiness, and governance of the platform.

• Collaborate with Data Engineering teams to facilitate workloads and eliminate platform obstacles.

• Create technical documentation, standards, and operational runbooks.

• Offer technical leadership and advice on Fabric platform architecture and engineering methodologies.

• Focus on establishing, automating, securing, and operating the Microsoft Fabric platform instead of constructing data pipelines, analytics models, or reporting solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in Azure Cloud Engineering.

• A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

• Practical experience with Microsoft Fabric and its essential platform components.

• Proven experience in implementing Fabric capacities, workspaces, and OneLake.

• Strong expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps and/or GitHub CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience in implementing Microsoft Entra ID, RBAC, and cloud security measures.

• Knowledge of designing and managing Fabric environments across DEV, TEST, and PROD.

• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, governance, and operational best practices.

• Proficient in automating cloud platforms using PowerShell and/or Python.

• Experience in enterprise cloud environments.

• Good grasp of data platform concepts and how data workloads utilize cloud infrastructure.

• Azure certifications are considered a plus.

• Certifications in Terraform, DevOps, or cloud platforms are advantageous.

• Experience in establishing a Microsoft Fabric platform from the ground up.

• Familiarity with Fabric REST APIs and platform automation.

• Experience in integrating Fabric with Azure services.

• Understanding of data ingestion workloads and notebook-based solutions within Fabric.

• Experience in regulated or governed cloud environments.

• Exposure to FinOps and cloud cost optimization practices.

• Experience in collaborating across Cloud Engineering, Data Engineering, Security, and Architecture teams.

🏝️ Benefits

• No explicit benefits or compensation extras stated.