Azure Platform Engineer - SaaS Scale & Automation

Jobtailor; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced cloud platform engineer to design, build and operate an Azure-based SaaS infrastructure. You will implement IaC, own CI/CD pipelines, and drive progressive delivery while embedding security by design.

The role focuses on scalable, observable, and reliable systems with strong emphasis on governance, identity, and secure supply-chain practices. Collaboration across teams and documented platform standards are key.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building and operating Azure-based cloud platforms in production.
• Deep understanding of cloud networking, identity, governance, and Azure PaaS services.
• Proven IaC expertise using Terraform, Bicep, or similar tooling.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration in modern cloud environments.
• CI/CD pipeline design and release engineering with progressive delivery and rollback.
• Observability solutions including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Reliability practices, incident response, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Identity and access management concepts, secrets management, least-privilege, secure supply chain.
• Scripting and automation (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Git-based workflows and peer-reviewed infrastructure changes.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core Azure infrastructure across networking, identity, compute, and storage.
• Improve platform scalability, governance, and reliability with Infrastructure as Code as default.
• Own and evolve CI/CD platform capabilities, including build, test, security scanning, and deployment strategies.
• Enable blue/green, canary, and automated rollback delivery patterns.
• Create reusable templates and standardised engineering patterns for safe product delivery.
• Reduce operational toil through automation and standardisation.
• Expand self‑service capabilities for product teams with guardrails.
• Provide and evolve shared observability: logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Design platform resilience, performance, availability, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Embed security by design: identity, secrets, least-privilege, policy enforcement, vulnerability management.
• Contribute documentation and platform standards to improve adoption and consistency.

Skills

Azure cloud

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Security by design

Identity & IAM

SRE practices

Scripting

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced cloud platform engineer to design, build and operate an Azure-based SaaS infrastructure. You will implement IaC, own CI/CD pipelines, and drive progressive delivery while embedding security by design.

The role focuses on scalable, observable, and reliable systems with strong emphasis on governance, identity, and secure supply-chain practices. Collaboration across teams and documented platform standards are key.