Azure Cloud Platform Engineer — Scale and Automation

Center for Elders; United States; On-site; USD 114,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

Center for Elders’ Independence seeks a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and improve CEI’s Azure and Fabric platform. You’ll build cloud foundations for integrations, APIs, data pipelines, analytics, and AI solutions, with automated deployments and production-ready environments.

You will implement security, observability, and scalable cloud services, while coordinating with security and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on knowledge of Azure serverless, APIs, containers, identity, secrets, monitoring and logging.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, Key Vault, networking, and secure connectivity.
• Automation skills using PowerShell, Python, Azure CLI, or similar tools.
• Experience in production incident response, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Ability to translate requirements into repeatable platform standards.
• Strong analytical, organizational, documentation, and communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field; 5+ years in cloud/platform/DevOps/SRE.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and maintain Azure cloud-native services and related tooling.
• Support Fabric and OneLake connectivity, deployment, and production operations.
• Establish standardized dev/QA/prod environments with proper controls.
• Provision resources using IaC (Bicep, ARM, Terraform).
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Implement centralized logging, monitoring, dashboards, and telemetry.
• Troubleshoot incidents, coordinate recovery, and perform RCAs.
• Manage identities, secrets, certificates, and secure connectivity.
• Define standards for naming, tagging, deployment, backup, and readiness.
• Review vendor components for alignment with architecture and security.
• Monitor performance, capacity, cost, and reliability; suggest improvements.
• Create reusable platform components and runbooks for teams.
• Support transition of prototypes into governed production services.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Applications, Data, Security, Infrastructure teams.

Skills

Azure serverless

APIs

Messaging

Containers

Identity and secrets

Monitoring and logging

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting and automation

Incident response

Platform standards

Documentation

Azure security

Azure DevOps

Azure CLI

PowerShell

Python

RBAC and Key Vault

Azure Monitor

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Bicep

ARM templates

PowerShell

Python

Azure CLI

Job description

Center for Elders’ Independence seeks a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and improve CEI’s Azure and Fabric platform. You’ll build cloud foundations for integrations, APIs, data pipelines, analytics, and AI solutions, with automated deployments and production-ready environments.

You will implement security, observability, and scalable cloud services, while coordinating with security and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability and cost efficiency.