Platform Engineer, Azure SaaS

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

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core Azure infrastructure across networking, identity, compute, and storage within a single-tenant SaaS model.
• Improve platform scalability, governance, and reliability while embedding Infrastructure as Code as the default approach.
• Own and evolve shared CI/CD platform capabilities, including build, test, security scanning, and deployment strategies.
• Enable progressive delivery patterns such as blue/green, canary, and automated rollback approaches.
• Create reusable templates, paved roads, and standardised engineering patterns that accelerate safe product delivery.
• Reduce operational toil through automation and standardisation, addressing root causes rather than recurring symptoms.
• Expand self‑service capabilities that allow product teams to provision and deploy independently within clear guardrails.
• Provide and evolve shared observability capabilities, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Design platform resilience, performance, and availability capabilities, supporting SLO definition and error budget practices.
• Embed security by design, including identity, secrets management, least‑privilege access, policy enforcement, and vulnerability management.
• Contribute clear documentation, platform standards, and engineering guidance that improve adoption and consistency.

Requirements

• Strong experience building and operating Azure‑based cloud platforms in production environments.
• Deep understanding of cloud networking, identity, governance, and Azure PaaS services.
• Proven Infrastructure as Code expertise using Terraform, Bicep, or similar tooling.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration concepts in modern cloud environments.
• Strong CI/CD pipeline design and release engineering experience, including progressive delivery and rollback strategies.
• Practical experience implementing observability solutions, including logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
• Solid understanding of reliability practices, incident response, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Strong grasp of identity and access management concepts (OAuth2 / OIDC), secrets management, least‑privilege principles, and secure supply‑chain practices.
• Strong scripting and automation capability (PowerShell, Bash, Python or similar).
• Experience working with Git‑based workflows and peer‑reviewed infrastructure changes.
• Ability to write clear technical documentation and define platform standards that enable adoption at scale.