Azure DevOps Engineer

IT Associates; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 56,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Retirement plan

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

IT Associates in Downers Grove, IL or Quincy, MA or Princeton, NJ seeks an Azure Platform Engineer to design, implement, automate, and maintain scalable cloud platform solutions within Azure. You will collaborate with cloud architects, developers and business stakeholders to deliver secure, resilient deployments.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in platform/cloud engineering, 2+ years on Azure, and expertise with Terraform, Harness, CI/CD, and security best practices, including IAM and secrets

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Platform Engineering, Cloud/DevOps, or related roles with 2+ years on Microsoft Azure.
• Experience building automation, integrations, and tooling using Java and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience supporting and enabling Azure services.
• Strong Terraform experience for provisioning Azure resources via IaC.
• CI/CD pipelines experience using Harness.
• Solid cloud security, IAM controls, and secrets management.
• Git version control and branching strategies.
• Excellent verbal and written communication for cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain reusable cloud platform capabilities that enable application teams on Azure.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance Terraform-based automation and deployment patterns.
• Build, support, and improve deployment pipelines using Harness and other tools.
• Provide platform enablement for Azure-hosted apps and services.
• Implement security, governance, and secrets management best practices.
• Monitor, observe, and optimize reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with architects, developers, operations, and stakeholders on modernization.

Skills

Azure Platform Engineering

Automation & Scripting

CI/CD Experience

Security & IAM

Git & Version Control

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Harness

Git

Azure

Job description

• Location: Downers Grove, IL or Quincy, MA OR Princeton, NJ


• 12 Months + contract. Multi-year contract


• Hybrid – 1-2 days/week in the office.


• Local to IL or MA OR from near by states or open to relocate


• Open on c2c or w2

Overview

We are seeking an experienced and passionate Azure Platform Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and maintaining scalable cloud platform solutions within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. You will work closely with cloud architects, developers, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, resilient, and cost-effective solutions.

The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with platform engineering, automation, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and enabling cloud-native application deployment and operations.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Experience: 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Automation, or related roles, with at least 2+ years supporting solutions on Microsoft Azure

Programming & Automation: Experience building automation, integrations, and tooling using Java and/or Python.

Platform Services: Hands-on experience supporting and enabling Azure services

Infrastructure as Code: Strong experience with Terraform for provisioning Azure App Service and Azure Functions for Infrastructure as a code ( IaC)

CI/CD: Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using Harness

Security Best Practices: Solid understanding of cloud security principles, identity management, access controls, and secrets management.

Version Control: Proficiency with Git and branching strategies.

Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate across technical and business teams.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice-to-Have)

Cloud Migration: Experience migrating legacy on-premises applications to Azure

Containers: Experience with containerization and modern deployment practices and deploying to Azure container Apps

Infrastructure Automation: Experience developing reusable infrastructure modules and automation frameworks.

Certifications: Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) or Azure Solutions Architect Expert

KEY RESPONSIBILTIES

Platform Engineering: Build and maintain reusable cloud platform capabilities that enable application teams to deploy and operate solutions efficiently within Azure.

Infrastructure Automation: Develop, maintain, and enhance Terraform-based automation and reusable deployment patterns.

CI/CD & Automation: Build, support, and improve deployment pipelines using Harness and other automation tools.

Platform Enablement: Support deployment, automation, and operational excellence for Azure-hosted applications and services.

Security & Governance: Implement cloud security standards, access controls, secrets management, and governance best practices.

Monitoring & Optimization: Leverage monitoring and observability tools to proactively identify issues, improve reliability, and enhance operational efficiency.

Collaboration: Partner with architects, developers, operations teams, and business stakeholders to support modernization initiatives, cloud adoption, and continuous improvement efforts.

The anticipated hourly rate range for this position is ($41-54/hr). Actual hourly rate will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, retirement and/or other benefits are available after a waiting period.