Senior Azure Platform Engineer - Hybrid, Richmond

TEEMA; Richmond; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

TEEMA is seeking a Senior Azure Platform Engineer for a permanent role in Richmond, BC, offering a hybrid work model. The candidate will own the design, implementation, and ongoing improvement of a large Azure environment spanning multiple subscriptions and business groups.

You will drive landing zones, governance, security, cost controls, and infrastructure as code using Terraform/Bicep, with Azure DevOps or GitHub pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in CS/Engineering.
• 10+ years in infrastructure/cloud with Azure focus.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and continually improve enterprise Azure landing zones, management groups, subscription structures, and patterns.
• Define and implement Azure governance standards, including Policy, naming, tagging, and compliance reporting.
• Design secure identity and access models using Entra ID, Azure RBAC, PIM, issued service principals, and least-privilege admin.
• Architect enterprise Azure networking including VNets, routing, hub-and-spoke, ExpressRoute, and Firewall.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity to implement Defender for Cloud, Key Vault, monitoring, logging, and security baselines.
• Develop reusable IaC modules using Terraform and/or Bicep, supported by Git-based review, testing, and pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub).
• Establish monitoring, cost visibility, quotas, backup, resilience, and disaster-recovery standards.
• Support incident investigation, root-cause analysis, and runbooks deployment.
• Review third-party Azure designs and provide technical guidance to internal teams.
• Balance security/governance with delivery practicality for decentralized teams.

Skills

Azure architecture design

Multi-subscription governance

Networking (ExpressRoute, VNets)

Security and compliance

CI/CD pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

10+ years infrastructure/cloud experience

Azure Certifications preferred

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

TEEMA is seeking a Senior Azure Platform Engineer for a permanent role in Richmond, BC, offering a hybrid work model. The candidate will own the design, implementation, and ongoing improvement of a large Azure environment spanning multiple subscriptions and business groups.

You will drive landing zones, governance, security, cost controls, and infrastructure as code using Terraform/Bicep, with Azure DevOps or GitHub pipelines.