Platform Engineer - Remote

Overview

Senior Azure DevOps Administrator to own administration, governance, security, integrations, and continuous improvement of the Microsoft Azure DevOps environment, serving as primary platform administrator and subject matter expert.

What you'll do

• Develop and maintain the in-house CI/CD automation pipeline as an individual contributor on the Cloud development platform team.
• Serve as a CI/CD automation expert, developing tactical release automation plans for products at varying maturity levels.
• Deploy infrastructure across environments using Terraform integrated with Azure DevOps.
• Design and develop scalable stateful and stateless AWS applications using modern tools, cloud architecture, and software design patterns.
• Establish cloud infrastructure standards, templates, and processes; collaborate with internal and external partners on architecture decisions.
• Build and operate secure, scalable AWS platforms across compute, networking, storage, and identity services.
• Enable developer self-service through reusable Terraform modules, standardized AWS environments, and automated provisioning workflows.
• Improve AWS platform reliability through observability, incident troubleshooting, high availability, and automated recovery.
• Administer Azure DevOps projects, repositories, pipelines, permissions, and configurations; standardize naming and remove unused assets.
• Monitor platform health, usage, consumption, and administrative activity to improve governance, costs, risk management, and user experience.
• Govern CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, branch policies, pull requests, and build validation; maintain reusable templates and guardrails with engineering, cloud, DevOps, and security teams.
• Troubleshoot build and release issues, permissions, agent pools, variable groups, environments, approvals, service principals, and dependencies.
• Partner with security teams on DevSecOps, security-as-code, and secure pipeline controls; support audits, access reviews, and privileged access and credential governance.
• Maintain Wiz and Azure DevOps integrations with cloud, identity, reporting, ITSM, notification, and development tools; troubleshoot service connections, webhooks, extensions, APIs, and automation scripts.
• Configure Azure Boards, team processes, backlogs, iterations, work items, queries, dashboards, and delivery plans for Agile, Scrum, and Kanban teams; partner with delivery leaders to improve planning, tracking, backlog hygiene, and cross-team visibility.
• Lead the Azure DevOps governance committee and help mature platform standards, controls, and operating practices.
• Other activities as may be assigned by your manager.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 6+ years of industry and/or relevant experience, typically with 1+ years in a Senior Associate level role or external equivalent.
• Experience working on automation and developmental works related to infrastructure operations.
• Experience in working and implementing Kubernetes and Service mesh technologies such as Istio, LinkerD for communication between services.
• Experience in implementing Karpenter for Scaling of API's in the Cloud.
• Proficient in various AWS cloud components for designing and building stateful and stateless applications.
• Terraform expertise building IaaC.
• Extensive hands-on experience administering Microsoft Azure DevOps in an enterprise environment.
• Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps organizations, projects, repositories, pipelines, boards, artifacts, service connections, permissions, process templates, extensions, and integrations.
• Deep understanding of Git workflows, branching strategies, pull requests, branch policies, repository governance, and code review practices.
• Experience governing Azure Pipelines for CI/CD, including YAML pipelines, build and release workflows, variable groups, environments, approvals, agent pools, and service connections.
• Experience configuring Azure Boards for Agile, Scrum, and Kanban delivery, including backlogs, sprints, area and iteration paths, queries, dashboards, and delivery tracking.
• Strong understanding of DevOps security practices, including least privilege, secrets management, secure service connections, auditability, privileged access, and policy enforcement.
• Experience integrating security tooling into DevOps workflows.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across permissions, pipelines, repositories, integrations, boards, identity, and platform configuration.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to guide users, explain technical issues clearly, and advise teams on best practices.
• Experience partnering with engineering, Agile delivery, security, infrastructure, compliance, architecture, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to lead governance forums, facilitate decisions, document standards, and drive action items to completion.
• Strong documentation discipline, including standards, procedures, runbooks, and user-facing guidance.

Nice to have

• Wiz experience.
• Microsoft Azure or Azure DevOps certifications.
• Experience with Azure, Entra ID, identity and access management, service principals, managed identities, and enterprise authentication models.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, policy-as-code, security-as-code, and DevSecOps operating models.
• Experience with Wiz, Git, ServiceNow, and related enterprise tooling.
• Experience building Azure DevOps reports or dashboards using Analytics Views, OData, REST APIs, Power BI, or custom automation.
• Experience with Azure DevOps REST APIs, PowerShell, Azure CLI, or scripting for automation and platform administration.
• Experience in regulated, security-conscious, or audit-driven environments.
• Experience defining enterprise DevOps standards for naming conventions, project lifecycle, repository hygiene, pipeline controls, and access governance.

Details

• Location: Remote.
• Annual full-time base salary range: $135,000.00 - $165,000.00.