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This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a close-knit team in a global organization. In this role, you will design, build, and operate application services on the Microsoft Azure platform, balancing hands-on software development with cloud architecture, identity, and containerization responsibilities. We are looking for a highly collaborative engineer who writes high-quality code, understands the Azure ecosystem deeply, mentors others and communicates technical tradeoffs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nSo what will you bet doing as a Senior Software Engineer - Azure & Microsoft Cloud?\nDesign, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using C#/.NET and Python, deployed on Microsoft Azure.\nArchitect cloud-native application components that integrate with Azure platform services such as Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database, and Storage.\nImplement secure authentication and authorization using Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), including app registrations, RBAC, and managed identities.\nDesign and consume RESTful APIs, applying secure integration patterns (OAuth2/OpenID Connect) across internal and external services.\nBuild and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps to automate build, test, and deployment across development, staging, and production environments.\nContribute to containerization efforts, packaging services with Docker and supporting deployment to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Apps.\nPartner with cloud/infrastructure engineering on networking, environment configuration, and deployment practices that keep application and platform concerns aligned.\nInstrument applications for observability using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights, and lead troubleshooting of production issues.\nParticipate in architecture and design discussions, weighing scalability, security, cost, and maintainability tradeoffs.\nConduct code reviews and mentor other engineers, sharing patterns and practices that raise the team's overall engineering quality.\nCollaborate cross-functionally with product, QA, and business stakeholders, translating technical decisions into terms non-technical partners can act on.\nEvaluate and help integrate AI-assisted development and Azure AI tooling to improve delivery speed and code quality.\nTo be successful in this role, you will need:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.\n5+ years of professional software development experience, including meaningful hands-on experience building and deploying applications on Microsoft Azure.\nStrong proficiency in C# and/or Python for backend or service-oriented development.\nSolid understanding of core Azure services: App Service, Functions, Azure SQL Database, Storage, and messaging services such as Service Bus or Event Grid.\nWorking knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD): authentication/authorization flows, app registrations, RBAC, and managed identities.\nExperience designing and securing RESTful APIs, including OAuth2/OpenID Connect-based authentication patterns.\nHands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps, including multi-stage builds and release approvals.\nFamiliarity with containerization concepts (Docker) and exposure to orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or Azure Container Apps.\nProficiency with Git-based version control and Agile/Scrum delivery practices.\nStrong troubleshooting and debugging skills spanning both application code and cloud infrastructure.\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical audiences.\nDemonstrated ability to mentor other engineers and elevate engineering practices through code review and knowledge sharing.\nThings we consider a plus:\nProduction experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Azure Container Apps for containerized workload deployment.\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code (Bicep, ARM templates, or Terraform).\nFamiliarity with Azure API Management for securing and managing APIs at scale.\nExposure to Azure AI services (Azure OpenAI, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Machine Learning) or AI-assisted development workflows.\nExperience with GitOps deployment workflows (Flux or ArgoCD) for Kubernetes-based environments.\nRelevant Microsoft certifications such as AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-400, or AZ-305.\nKnowledge of Azure security fundamentals beyond the basics: Key Vault, Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy.\nExperience with test automation and TDD/BDD practices.\nBackground in performance tuning or cost optimization (FinOps) for cloud-hosted applications.\nPrior experience acting as a technical point of contact or informal team lead on a project, without formal management responsibility.\nWhat to Do Next\nNow that you’ve had a chance to learn more about us, what are you waiting for! Apply today and allow us the opportunity to learn more about you and the value you can bring to our team. Once you apply, be sure to create a profile, and sign up for job alerts, so you can be the first to know when new opportunities become available.\nOur Values\nOur values speak to our shared beliefs and describe how we approach working together.\nPutting People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an inclusive environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.\nDo the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth - good or bad.\nDo Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.\nTake Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrate our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.\nEqual Employment Opportunity/Veteran/Disability Employer\nFor more information about how we handle your personal data in connection with our recruiting processes, please refer to the Recruiting Privacy Notice on the “Privacy Notice” tab located at http://privacy.leggett.com","description_format":"text","description_chars":6432,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-04T10:58:33Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":34,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.758,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":33,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-13T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/leggett-platt-sr-software-engineer-azure-microsoft-cloud","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/leggett-platt-sr-software-engineer-azure-microsoft-cloud.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-13T14:18:55Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":22011,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-14T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2278509},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2278509"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fleggett-platt-sr-software-engineer-azure-microsoft-cloud"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fleggett-platt-sr-software-engineer-azure-microsoft-cloud"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fleggett-platt-sr-software-engineer-azure-microsoft-cloud"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/leggett-platt-sr-software-engineer-azure-microsoft-cloud\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fleggett-platt-sr-software-engineer-azure-microsoft-cloud"}]}