Cloud and Platform Engineer (Azure)

Svitla Systems Inc. is looking for a Cloud and Platform Engineer (Azure) for a full-time position (40 hours per week) in LATAM. Our client is an established, third-generation family business with more than 80 years of history in wholesale protein distribution across the Pacific Northwest. Known for rigorous food-safety standards and a customer-first culture.

As a Cloud and Platform Engineer, you will own how the pod’s AI workflows run in production, covering identity, environments, pipelines, secrets, observability, and cost visibility in the client’s Azure tenancy. You will secure early review and sign-off from the client’s security and DevOps functions and make sure nothing is configured by hand in a console.

Time zone: U.S. Pacific Time (PT)

Requirements

• 5+ years in cloud platform, DevOps, or SRE roles, with strong Azure expertise.
• Experience with Terraform or Bicep, and with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions pipelines.
• Experience with identity and access management: Okta or Entra ID, managed identities, Key Vault, and RBAC.
• Experience with observability using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or Log Analytics.
• Experience passing enterprise security reviews.
• Security-conscious and detail-oriented mindset.
• Ability to collaborate well with client IT and security teams.
• Clear written documentation skills.
• Proactive approach to cost and reliability risks.

Will be a plus

• Experience hosting LLM workloads.
• FinOps and cost dashboard experience.
• SOC 2 evidence preparation experience.
• Policy as code (Azure Policy, OPA).

Responsibilities

• Set up the pod’s access path in the first week: Okta accounts, VDI where required, and an Azure subscription or resource group.
• Build environments as infrastructure as code, along with the CI/CD pipelines that every increment ships through.
• Implement separate identities for people and agents, least-privilege access, secrets management, and policy as code.
• Provide action-level audit logging, observability, and drift and incident monitoring.
• Provide run-cost visibility (cloud and model consumption) for the Value Ledger.
• Monitor production automations and receive their failure alerts.
• Prepare evidence for the client’s security and DevOps sign-off.

Tech Stack:

• Microsoft Azure.
• Terraform or Bicep.
• Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Okta or Entra ID.
• Azure Key Vault.
• Azure Monitor / Application Insights.