Principal Cloud Engineer – Azure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +4 more states.

📋 Description

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

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

• Create Azure PaaS, containers, and managed services as reusable capabilities for the platform.

• Ensure that platforms fulfill scalability, resilience, performance, cost-effectiveness, and reusability criteria.

• Employ 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, data engineering, security, and risk teams within agile cross-functional pods.

• Provide standardized Azure platform capabilities, deployment patterns, and paved-road solutions.

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

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

• Automate the provisioning, configuration, and policy enforcement of environments.

• Create tools for consistent and secure provisioning of Azure environments and deployment of solutions.

• 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.

• Design platforms with built-in observability, traceability, and operational controls.

• Lead significant projects and develop horizontal capabilities across the enterprise.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Comprehensive understanding of Azure platforming, networking, identity, access management, and governance.

• Proven experience with scalability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Capability to troubleshoot and manage production Azure environments effectively.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using GitHub Actions, ARM, Terraform, or comparable tools.

• Experience in constructing and managing CI/CD pipelines for both infrastructure and application delivery.

• Background in developing reusable deployment frameworks, foundational automation, or internal platform tooling.

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

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

• Knowledge 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.

• Demonstrated experience in delivering and managing Azure environments.

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

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

• Proven ability to lead significant projects and collaborate with technology teams and leaders.

🏝️ Benefits

• Performance-based incentives.

• Discretionary bonuses.

• Additional perks and rewards.

• Health insurance.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Accident and life insurance.

• Retirement savings plans.

• Comprehensive training and coaching.

• Support from management.

• Opportunities for networking.

• Access to tools and resources for achieving new milestones.