Azure Platform Engineer

Cummins Inc.; Pune District; Hybrid; INR 12,00,000 - 16,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering company is seeking a Systems Architect to define and communicate technical visions, implement DevOps practices, and support the Azure platform. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in IT, focusing on automation and Infrastructure as Code. This hybrid role requires 2–3 days in the office per week, offering a blend of remote flexibility and collaborative opportunities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in IT required.
• Hands-on experience with Azure platform and automation.
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate technical visions for Product Team.
• Implement Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps practices.
• Create designs for infrastructure and ensure compliance with standards.

Skills

Azure platform automation

DevSecOps tooling

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Troubleshooting and Operations Support

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

PowerShell

Job description

Overview

DESCRIPTION GPP Database Link (https://cummins365.sharepoint.com/sites/CS38534/)

Job Summary: Responsible for defining, building and communicating a shared technical and architectural vision for a Product Team to help ensure the system or solution is fit for its intended purpose.

Key Responsibilities

• Defines, explores, and supports the implementation of enablers to evolve solution intent, working directly with Product teams to implement them; guides enablers through planning and enablement, and works with customers and suppliers to help ensure fitness for purpose.
• Enables the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and DevOps—advocates for and steers the development and improvement of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, and helps architects to enable Release on Demand.
• Defines and implements subsystems and their interfaces, allocates responsibilities to subsystems, understands solution deployment, and communicates requirements for interactions with solution context; defines Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs).
• Participates in planning, definition, and high-level design of the solution and explores solution alternatives.
• Works with Product Owners to determine the capacity allocation for enablement work; participates in Planning, Pre- and Post-PI Planning, System and Solution Reviews, and Inspect and Adapt events.
• Delivers solutions adhering to standards and leveraging reuse of components; provides oversight and fosters Built-In Quality and Team and Technical Agility; supports decentralized decision making.
• Assists in technical analysis of potential solutions, including evaluating the technical fit and viability of commercial-off-the-shelf products versus custom-built solutions.
• Proactively seeks opportunities to enhance efficiency in the build and deploy processes, promotes reusability of component designs to reduce costs and shorten time to deliver solutions by leveraging automation where possible.
• Creates high-level and detailed designs of infrastructure, interfaces, extensions, and workflows while meeting architecture, security, performance, scalability, and maintainability requirements.
• Maintains strong relationships to deliver business value using relevant Business Relationship Management practices.

Competencies

• Business insight - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
• Communicates effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Global perspective - Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens.
• Manages conflict - Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise.
• Agile Architecture - Designs the fundamental organization of a system embodied by its components, their relationships to each other and to the environment to guide its emergent design and evolution.
• Agile Systems Thinking - Embraces a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system\'s constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems to ensure the economic success of the solution.
• Business Architecture Design - Defines and creates business capability maps using standards, templates, tools and methodologies to provide a common understanding of key capabilities aligned to strategic objectives and tactical demands.
• Continuous Delivery Pipeline - Implements the workflows, activities, and automation by providing the enterprise with the capability to shepherd a new piece of functionality all the way from ideation to an on-demand release of value to the end user.
• Lean Agile and SAFe Mindset - Advocates for and leads others in the concepts of the Agile Manifesto and Lean thinking in support of adopting and applying the 9 SAFe principles and practices for the organization.
• Regulatory Risk Compliance Management - Evaluates the design and effectiveness of controls against established industry frameworks and regulations to assess adherence with legal/regulatory requirements.
• Release Planning - Plans and manages the release of capabilities, features or products using inputs from the prioritized roadmap, planning, available resources and skills to communicate expected availability and releases of capability.
• System Solution Architecture - Creates solution designs and patterns using the Cummins Technical Reference Model (CTRM), CLEAN standards, and existing reference patterns to maintain alignment to Cummins standards.
• Values differences - Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Education, Licenses, Certifications

Education: College, university, or equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Business or relevant equivalent experience required. This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience

Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience required. Experience in IT utilizing a broad knowledge base in fundamental IT skills, modern development and deployment practices, DevSecOps tooling and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) knowledge preferred. Hands on experience as an IT Architect preferred.

Qualifications

This role supports the cloud platform by deploying services through IaC and pipelines, managing cost controls, monitoring, and platform operations. It ensures consistency, stability, and efficiency across environments, enabling developer self-service.

5 + year hands on experience on Azure platform automation, operations support troubleshooting and deployment of resources through CI/CD

Core Azure Services - Azure VMs, Blob Storage, Virtual Network, Azure Functions, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure SQL, Azure Monitor

Troubleshooting and Operations Support – Provide L2 support on Incident and Problem support cases by 24x7

Networking & Security - Azure VNet, NSGs, Private Endpoints, Application Gateway, Azure Firewall

Networking & Security - Azure AD, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Key Vault, Defender for Cloud

Monitoring & Logging - Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Sentinel

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - ARM templates, Terraform, Azure CLI/PowerShell scripting

CI/CD Pipelines - Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines), GitHub Actions, YAML-based deployments

Automation & Scripting - PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python, Automation Accounts, Logic Apps, Runbooks

Containers & Orchestration - Fundamentals on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Instances (ACI), Docker, Helm charts, Ingress controllers

Cost Optimization & Governance - Cost Management + Billing, Azure Policies, Management Groups, Tagging strategies

Compliance & DevSecOps - Azure Blueprints, Defender for DevOps, Security Center, regulatory compliance mapping (ISO, CIS, etc.)

Collaboration & Documentation - Agile delivery, Azure Boards, Confluence/SharePoint, architectural and runbook documentation

Note : Although the role category is indicated as Remote, the position is Hybrid in nature and requires 2–3 days of working from office each week.

Job Systems/Information Technology

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category Remote

Job Type Exempt - Experienced

ReqID 2417440

Relocation Package No