Senior Platform Engineer (Azure Platform & DevOps)

Overview We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design, automation, reliability, and operational excellence of a business-critical Azure-based data and reporting platform. This role will be responsible for establishing a robust and highly available platform foundation, ensuring seamless collaboration between data engineering and infrastructure teams. The ideal candidate combines strong Azure platform expertise with deep knowledge of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and enterprise operations. They will play a key role in building a scalable, secure, and resilient platform capable of supporting mission-critical reporting and external-facing data products. Key Responsibilities - Own and drive CI/CD implementation, release management, and deployment automation. - Act as the technical liaison between engineering and infrastructure teams. - Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions. - Establish and manage monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability frameworks. - Define and implement backup, restore, disaster recovery, and business continuity strategies. - Ensure platform reliability, resilience, performance, and maintainability. - Implement and promote operational best practices, governance standards, and security controls. - Support platform scalability and availability requirements in SLA-driven environments. - Identify opportunities for automation and continuous operational improvement. - Contribute to architecture discussions and platform engineering decisions. Required Experience & Skills - Strong experience with Microsoft Azure platform services and cloud infrastructure. - Extensive hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and Infrastructure as Code. - Experience with Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or similar automation technologies. - Strong understanding of monitoring, logging, observability, and operational excellence practices. - Proven experience designing and supporting highly available and resilient cloud platforms. - Experience with disaster recovery, backup and restore processes, and business continuity planning. - Knowledge of security, governance, compliance, and platform engineering best practices. - Familiarity with enterprise-scale operational environments and SLA-driven service delivery. - Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. - Ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, infrastructure, and operations functions. Preferred Qualifications - Experience supporting Azure Databricks environments. - Knowledge of Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, and modern data platforms. - Experience with cloud security frameworks and governance models. - Azure certifications in administration, architecture, or DevOps. - Experience working within large-scale enterprise data and analytics programs. What Success Looks Like In the early phase of the project, the successful candidate will focus on - Establishing a robust Azure platform foundation. - Implementing automated CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices. - Defining monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational processes. - Designing platform resilience, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities. - Supporting the delivery of a highly available platform targeting 99.5% uptime or higher. - Creating strong collaboration models between engineering and infrastructure teams. - Ensuring the platform is secure, scalable, maintainable, and ready to support business-critical workloads.