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We specialize in cloud architecture, infrastructure, migration, and optimization, helping enterprises scale efficiently while maintaining cost control.\nOur clients range from Fortune 500 companies to fast-growing startups, relying on us to build high-performance infrastructure, optimize cloud environments, and enable continuous delivery at scale.\nAbout the role\nWe are building a senior engineering team for a large enterprise program in healthcare operations and workforce decisioning. The platform helps operations leaders understand what is happening across their workforce, make informed decisions, take action within the enterprise systems they already use, and measure the results.\nWe are looking for two Senior DevOps / Platform Engineers, including one Platform Lead, to design, build, secure, and operate the production infrastructure supporting this platform.\nThe environment will run within the client's own Azure tenant, handle regulated workforce and operational data, and support isolated production deployments for individual customers.\nThis is a hands-on engineering role requiring deep Azure expertise, infrastructure as code, cloud security, and production platform ownership. You will establish the initial build environment, develop the production infrastructure, and implement the automation, security controls, observability, and disaster recovery capabilities needed to operate a reliable enterprise platform.\nFor the Platform Lead position, you will also own key architectural decisions, establish engineering standards, and work directly with the client's architects and security teams.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign, build, and maintain production Azure infrastructure, including subscriptions, landing zones, private networking, managed identities, Azure Key Vault, and Azure Monitor.\n\nDevelop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform or Bicep, creating reusable modules and automated provisioning processes.\n\nEstablish the initial build and development environments, followed by secure, production-ready infrastructure within the client's Azure tenant.\n\nDesign and implement isolated customer deployments, ensuring strict separation of subscriptions, networking, encryption keys, and data stores.\n\nBuild repeatable infrastructure deployment processes that allow new customer environments to be provisioned consistently and efficiently.\n\nImplement secure identity and access management using Microsoft Entra ID, workload identities, least-privilege RBAC, just-in-time access, and break-glass procedures.\n\nDesign and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines using client-controlled repositories and runners, including automated testing, security scanning, approval workflows, and controlled production releases.\n\nImplement cloud security controls and support enterprise security assessments, penetration testing, compliance reviews, and vulnerability remediation.\n\nBuild observability capabilities across customer deployments, including centralized logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting, and integration with enterprise SIEM platforms.\n\nDesign and implement resilient infrastructure, backup strategies, zone redundancy, and disaster recovery solutions, including secondary-region failover capabilities.\n\nDefine recovery objectives, conduct disaster recovery and performance testing, and document results and remediation actions.\n\nCollaborate with application engineers, security teams, enterprise architects, and client stakeholders to ensure infrastructure meets operational, security, and performance requirements.\n\nDevelop operational runbooks, infrastructure documentation, and incident response procedures.\n\nParticipate in production on-call rotations, incident troubleshooting, and post-deployment hypercare.\n\nTake ownership of infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, from architecture and implementation through production deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.\n\nFor the Platform Lead position, guide technical architecture, establish platform engineering standards, coordinate engineering activities, and represent the team in client architecture and security discussions.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nMust-Have Experience\nSenior Azure platform engineering experience. 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Strong experience with Microsoft Entra ID, workload identities, least-privilege RBAC, just-in-time and break-glass access, credential rotation, and secure secrets management. You understand how to eliminate long-lived credentials from pipelines and repositories.\n\nMulti-tenant infrastructure architecture. You have designed and operated customer-isolated environments with separate networking, encryption keys, and data stores. You can automate repeatable customer deployments while maintaining strict security boundaries.\n\nSecure CI/CD engineering. Experience building production deployment pipelines within enterprise-controlled environments, including secure runners, environment promotion, approval workflows, container and dependency scanning, and coordinated releases across multiple deployments.\n\nDisaster recovery and resilience. Hands-on experience implementing backup strategies, zone-redundant infrastructure, secondary-region recovery environments, and documented RTO/RPO objectives. You have personally executed and validated production disaster recovery or failover tests.\n\nObservability and production operations. Strong experience implementing logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, security event monitoring, and performance testing. You can troubleshoot production issues, identify bottlenecks, and participate in on-call support.\n\nTechnical ownership and stakeholder communication. You can independently own complex infrastructure initiatives, explain architectural decisions to enterprise architects and security reviewers, and document operational procedures and technical trade-offs.\n\nStrong English communication. 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