Senior Azure Infrastructure Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 10, 2026.
About the job :
We are seeking an Azure Infrastructure Engineer to lead Azure Platform Engineering, AIOps enablement, and enterprise-grade API integrations.
This is a hands-on, senior technical role responsible for building and operating a scalable Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that enables deep automation, observability, and AI-driven operations through Python-based services and API-first integrations across Azure, DevOps, monitoring, and ITSM ecosystems.
Key Responsibilities :
- Own the Azure platform architecture, roadmap, and engineering standards.
- Architect and govern enterprise-scale Azure infrastructure using Terraform.
- Define and lead Azure DevOps CI/CD standards using YAML pipelines.
- Build Python-based automation for orchestration, health checks, and event-driven remediation.
- Serve as the API Integration Specialist for Azure services, DevOps, observability, and ITSM tools.
- Provide technical leadership for AKS platform architecture and operations.
- Own the AIOps strategy, including alert correlation and anomaly detection.
- Mentor platform and infrastructure engineers and partner with Security, FinOps, and SRE teams.
- Own BAU platform operations, including rotational on-call support.
Required Skills :
- Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, identity, governance).
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform at enterprise scale.
- Advanced experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD and YAML pipelines.
- Strong experience with AKS / Kubernetes.
- Strong Python proficiency for automation and integrations.
- Strong experience with REST APIs, webhooks, and event-driven architectures.
- Proven leadership in platform engineering, DevOps, or CloudOps.
- Practical experience or strong exposure to AIOps and observability.
Skills
DevOps, Azure, Azure Infrastructure, ITSM, Python, CI/CD Pipeline, Observability Services, Kubernetes, Cloud FinOps, Cloud Operations