Azure Cloud Platform Engineer — Data & AI Ops

Talentify; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Talentify is seeking a Platform Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure in Dallas, TX, hybrid four days on-site. The role focuses on building, optimizing, and operating enterprise data and AI platforms with cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and platform reliability.

The position collaborates with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to enable data-driven decision making and AI innovation, including IaC, Terraform, and Azure services.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of IT experience in enterprise environments.
• 3-5 years of hands-on cloud engineering experience (Azure preferred).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and networking concepts, IAM/RBAC, and core cloud services.
• Hands-on exposure to Databricks data platforms.
• Infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Git-based workflows.
• CI/CD with Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Containerization with Docker and Kubernetes basics.
• Monitoring and observability via cloud tools.
• Strong troubleshooting and cross-team collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with platform leads and senior engineers to deliver platform initiatives and enhancements.
• Support cloud platform engineering and deployment across Azure; configure networking and security components; support data platform services.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code with Terraform; participate in code reviews and CI/CD validation.
• Contribute to automation: develop scripts/tools, documentation, and onboarding materials; improve deployment/configuration standards.
• Monitor platform performance, analyze logs and metrics, and support stability and performance optimization.
• Support incident response, SLAs, and on-call rotations as needed.
• Build and maintain monitoring/alerting dashboards and log ingestion pipelines.
• Support CI/CD and release management: pipelines with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps; Terraform plan/apply.

Skills

Cloud engineering

IAM/RBAC

Scripting

Monitoring/Observability

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Databricks

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Talentify is seeking a Platform Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure in Dallas, TX, hybrid four days on-site. The role focuses on building, optimizing, and operating enterprise data and AI platforms with cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and platform reliability.

The position collaborates with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to enable data-driven decision making and AI innovation, including IaC, Terraform, and Azure services.