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This role owns the provisioning, configuration, security, and ongoing maintenance of all infrastructure that supports our integration platforms - spanning API integrations, data pipelines, and the shared services that underpin them. You will work across our current on-premises Linux environment and be instrumental in building out the cloud infrastructure as we modernize our platform stack.\nThis position is a hybrid role.\nResponsibilities\nArchitect, Design and Develop\nProvision, configure, and maintain all infrastructure supporting integration, and data and platforms including WSO2, and related middleware on on-premises Linux servers.\nDesign and build Azure cloud infrastructure hosting platform using AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), and other Azure services for the organization’s next-generation API, data, and applications, following infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles.\nManage and harden on-premises server environments including OS patching, package management, service configuration, and security hardening on Linux.\nAdminister IAM integrations including LDAP directory services, Active Directory, service account management, and certificate lifecycle management.\nOwn network configuration relevant to integration workloads: DNS, firewall rules, load balancers, VPNs, and API gateway networking.\nCollaborate and Coordinate\nCollaborate on CI/CD pipeline infrastructure, including build agents, artifact repositories, and deployment automation tooling.\nSupport API and data engineering teams with environment provisioning, capacity planning, and performance tuning of integration runtimes.\nProduction Support\nParticipate in on-call production support rotation and serve as escalation point for infrastructure-layer incidents.\nImplement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging infrastructure (log aggregation, metrics dashboards, uptime monitoring) for all integration services.\nLead disaster recovery planning, backup procedures, and environment restoration for integration platform components.\nQualifications\nAzure cloud infrastructure - compute, networking, storage, identity, security\nKubernetes and containerization - Docker, AKS or equivalent managed Kubernetes\nInfrastructure-as-Code - Bicep, Terraform, or ARM; 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