Azure - Cloud Platform Engineer, Manager

Overview

Charles River Development is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer for its Cloud Platform Engineering team, with a primary focus on Azure Policy automation, policy-as-code, and enterprise cloud governance.

What you'll do

• Design, implement, and automate Azure Policy definitions, initiatives, assignments, exemptions, and remediation workflows across enterprise Azure environments.
• Build and maintain policy-as-code solutions using source control, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tooling such as Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Bicep, or equivalent engineering patterns.
• Establish and evolve governance guardrails at management group and subscription scope to enforce security, compliance, configuration, and operational standards at scale.
• Integrate Azure Policy validation into engineering delivery workflows so policy compliance is tested early and continuously throughout platform and application deployment processes.
• Partner with engineering and platform teams to define policy requirements, manage exceptions responsibly, and implement durable remediation and compliance improvement strategies.
• Monitor policy effectiveness, investigate non-compliance trends, troubleshoot complex governance issues, and improve policy coverage, reliability, and maintainability over time.
• Contribute to broader cloud platform engineering priorities including infrastructure automation, security engineering, observability, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

What you'll need

• 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud platform operations, cloud governance, or cloud security engineering, including substantial hands-on experience in Azure environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Policy, including policy definition authoring, initiative design, assignment management, exemptions, remediation tasks, and compliance evaluation in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating Azure Policy as Code solutions using source control, automated deployment pipelines, and testing or validation workflows.
• Strong expertise with infrastructure as code, automation, and scripting using tools such as Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Bicep, and CI/CD platforms.
• Experience implementing governance guardrails across management groups, subscriptions, and shared platform services to support security, compliance, and operational standards at scale.
• Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals, including access control, data protection, configuration governance, vulnerability reduction, and monitoring.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues, identify root causes, and implement durable improvements that enhance governance outcomes, reliability, and maintainability.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional and distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Experience building or supporting shared cloud platforms, landing zones, or platform engineering capabilities at scale.
• Knowledge of Azure networking, hybrid connectivity, private access patterns, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Experience with observability, operational tooling, and cloud reliability practices within complex enterprise environments.
• Familiarity with regulated environments and recognized control frameworks such as CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, or SOC 2.
• Experience working within agile delivery models and partnering with engineering teams to embed security and operational practices into delivery workflows.
• Relevant Microsoft Azure, security, governance, networking, or infrastructure-as-code certifications.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.