Platform Engineer

Ascendion; Poland; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascendion is seeking an experienced Azure Platform Engineer to operate, maintain and improve the Nucleus Azure platform across both production and non-production environments.

You will support Azure services including Synapse, Azure SQL, Data Lake Storage, Function Apps, Key Vault and API Management, while designing secure data pipelines and APIs and coordinating with stakeholders for incident resolution and cost control.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Azure platform engineering experience in a production environment.
• Practical experience with Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, storage, data pipelines and Azure PaaS services.
• Experience designing, publishing or supporting APIs through Azure API Management.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain and improve the Nucleus Azure platform across environments.
• Support Azure services, including networking and security controls.
• Design, build and support secure data pipelines and APIs.

Skills

Azure platform engineering

Azure Synapse

Azure SQL

Data pipelines

Azure PaaS services

API Management

SQL

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Automation

Monitoring

Incident resolution

Security controls

Documentation

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Azure API Management

Terraform

Job description

• Operate, maintain and continuously improve the Nucleus Azure platform across production and non-production environments.
• Support Azure services including Synapse, Azure SQL, Data Lake Storage, Function Apps, Key Vault, Application Insights, API Management and associated networking and security controls.
• Design, build and support secure data pipelines, integrations and APIs.
• Investigate and resolve platform incidents, performance issues and service requests, coordinating with internal technology teams and suppliers where required.
• Support releases and environment changes through automated deployment pipelines, infrastructure as code, appropriate testing and change controls.
• Support AI-enabled services integrated with Nucleus, including managed model services, document-processing capabilities and model access through API Management.
• Implement and maintain monitoring for operational health, API and AI service usage, consumption and cost.
• Contribute to technical risk assessment, security controls, service and model configuration, secrets and key management, dependency management and governance documentation.
• Maintain solution and service documentation, operational procedures, support guides, architecture records and handover material.
• Work with product, architecture, engineering and business stakeholders to shape requirements and provide practical technical guidance.
• Participate in the team's operational support model and take ownership of issues through to resolution.

Skills and professional experience

• Strong hands-on Azure platform engineering experience in a production environment.
• Practical experience with Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, storage, data pipelines and Azure PaaS services.
• Experience designing, publishing or supporting APIs through Azure API Management.
• Strong SQL skills and a sound understanding of data engineering and database principles.
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, automation and controlled deployment processes.
• Experience supporting operational services, including monitoring, troubleshooting, incident resolution and service improvement.
• Practical understanding of identity, access control, secrets management, networking and security within Azure.
• Ability to produce clear technical, operational and support documentation.
• Strong ownership and communication skills, with the ability to work across engineering, architecture, product and business stakeholders.