Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and tackle the most intricate, high-risk, or uncertain technical challenges.

• Deploy enterprise-level infrastructure-as-code utilizing Terraform across networking, security, governance, compute, and PaaS.

• Develop CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts, self-service tools, and observability infrastructure.

• Create detailed unit, integration, and validation tests, as well as runbooks, diagrams, and implementation documentation.

• Diagnose complex issues spanning networking, identity, security, and infrastructure layers.

• Enhance implementations for performance, cost-effectiveness, security, and maintainability.

• Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident response for critical platform-related issues.

• Evaluate architectural designs against implementation realities and confirm technical feasibility.

• Provide constructive feedback on strategies that overlook delivery constraints or compromise quality.

• Uncover hidden complexities, dependencies, risks, unrealistic timelines, and ambiguous requirements.

• Recommend alternative technical solutions based on practical experience.

• Engage in design sessions, ADR reviews, design-pattern evaluations, and story refinement.

• Assist in breaking down features into actionable stories with clear acceptance criteria.

• Validate story sizing, complexity assessments, prerequisites, dependencies, and technical feasibility.

• Conduct code reviews for Terraform modules, Azure Policy definitions, and pipeline configurations.

• Mentor engineers through pairing, constructive review feedback, guided problem-solving, workshops, demonstrations, and technical deep-dives.

• Document complex implementations and troubleshooting strategies for knowledge bases and playbooks.

• Serve as a senior individual contributor alongside Cloud Architects and Technical Leads within the Cloud Platform Team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering within cloud environments.

• Expert-level proficiency in Terraform at an enterprise scale, including 50+ production modules/stacks.

• Extensive Azure experience across networking, security, governance, compute, and PaaS services.

• Demonstrated success in delivering complex infrastructure in regulated sectors such as banking, financial services, healthcare, or government.

• Experience working in Agile/Kanban multifunctional teams with architects, engineers, DevOps, and security professionals.

• History of providing constructive challenges and proposing viable alternatives.

• Hands-on troubleshooting experience in addressing complex technical issues.

• Experience in mentorship through pairing and collaborative hands-on efforts.

• Terraform proficiency in modules, state management, composable stacks, testing, patterns, and anti-patterns.

• Azure expertise encompassing VNets, NSGs, Firewall, private endpoints, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Entra ID, RBAC, PIM, Key Vault, Policy, compute, and PaaS.

• Experience with CI/CD using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.

• Familiarity with Git workflows, testing frameworks, and scripting in PowerShell, Bash, and Python.

• Knowledge of secure-by-design principles, IaC best practices, hub-and-spoke networking, observability, resilience, and disaster recovery.

• Experience integrating with the Microsoft ecosystem, including M365, D365, Fabric, and Power Platform.

• A relevant degree is preferred, or equivalent competencies gained through education.

• Azure certifications AZ-305 and AZ-400 are a plus.

• Familiarity with Azure Enterprise Scale Landing Zones is advantageous.

• Experience in container orchestration with Kubernetes, ACA, or AKS is desirable.

• Experience with API Management, Logic Apps, Event Grid, SRE, or DevOps transformation is beneficial.

• Contributions to open-source projects are a bonus.

• Experience with multiple IaC tools such as Bicep and Ansible is desirable.

• Knowledge of FinOps and cost optimization practices is advantageous.

• Familiarity with ISO 27001, SOC2, or NIST security frameworks is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Full-time, permanent position.

• Emphasis on an inclusive workplace culture.

• Engagement initiatives for employees.

• Networks for value champions.

• Opportunities for mentorship and knowledge-sharing.

• Pair programming and collaborative hands-on activities.

• Workshops, demonstrations, and technical deep-dives.