Azure Platform Engineer (Remote)
Overview:
In this role you will help build a new Azure environment for a federal payments program, focusing on landing zones, platform services, and secure, observable operations. You'll work with Terraform and CI/CD to deliver scalable cloud capabilities and participate in an on-call rotation to manage incidents. You will collaborate with the cloud engineering team to align with government requirements and security standards. This is an opportunity to shape a modern Azure platform in a contract-to-hire setting with growth potential.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain Azure landing zones and platform services
- Author Terraform modules and implement CI/CD pipelines
- Implement observability and security guardrails
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation, leading triage and root cause analysis
- Key requirements5 to 7 years supporting Azure in production
- Hands-on Terraform authoring
- Azure networking and security (VNet, Private Endpoints, Key Vault, RBAC, Entra ID)
- GitHub Actions or Azure DevOpsPowerShell or PythonAzure Government and Azure certifications are a plusUS Citizen or Green Card holder with 3+ years of continuous US residence
- Must pass a federal background checkstrong ownershipclear communicationcalm approach to production incidents
- Azure platform engineering
- TerraformCI/CD pipelines