Principal Cloud Engineer – Azure

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

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and manage Azure cloud infrastructure and shared platform services that support digital workloads.

• Implement and uphold Azure landing zones, subscriptions, networking, identity, and governance.

• Develop Azure PaaS, containers, and managed services as reusable platform capabilities.

• Ensure platforms fulfill requirements for scalability, resilience, performance, cost-effectiveness, and reusability.

• Utilize DevOps and SRE methodologies, including CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness.

• Establish and operationalize essential platform services and tools for engineering teams.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to provide standardized Azure platform capabilities, deployment patterns, and paved-road solutions.

• Design and maintain Infrastructure as Code using GitHub Actions, Terraform, or CDKTF frameworks.

• Create reusable, modular deployment patterns that balance self-service with governance.

• Automate environment provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement.

• Develop foundational automation and tools for consistent and secure Azure deployments.

• Implement security-by-design principles across identity, networking, encryption, secrets management, and auditability.

• Ensure Azure solutions adhere to security, privacy, data governance, and regulatory standards.

• Assist with architecture reviews, risk assessments, and audits alongside security and risk teams.

• Design platforms with default observability, traceability, and operational controls.

• Work within agile, cross-functional teams alongside cloud engineering, data engineering, and security and risk partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Hands-on experience in engineering solutions on Microsoft Azure in large-scale or regulated settings.

• Strong knowledge of Azure platforming, networking, identity, access management, and governance.

• Experience in designing for scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Proven capability to troubleshoot and manage production Azure environments.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code utilizing GitHub Actions, ARM, Terraform, or similar tools.

• Experience in building and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery.

• Experience in creating reusable deployment frameworks, foundational automation, or internal platform tools.

• Familiarity with IAM models, role definitions, and least-privilege access practices.

• Experience with Azure API Management or comparable API gateway solutions.

• Understanding of secure service exposure, rate limiting, and API lifecycle management.

• Experience in implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational dashboards.

• Familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, and resilience patterns.

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline (Computer Science, Engineering).

• Over 10 years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering leadership, or infrastructure roles.

• Proven experience in delivering and managing Azure environments.

• Experience in designing, implementing, and delivering large-scale Azure platforms.

• Experience in building foundational cloud platform capabilities, engineering enablement tools, or shared services for internal development teams.

• Experience leading large projects and collaborating with technology teams and leaders.

• Leadership skills and experience in developing horizontal capabilities across the enterprise.

🏝️ Benefits

• Performance-based incentives.

• Discretionary bonuses.

• Health insurance.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Accident insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Retirement savings plans.

• Comprehensive training and coaching.

• Manager support.

• Networking opportunities.

• Tools and resources to achieve new milestones.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.