Azure Platform DevOps Lead & Architect

Makai Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Makai Labs seeks a senior cloud platform engineer to own Azure-based foundations, stand up new environments from scratch, and maintain complex Terraform-driven deployments across client environments.

You will size up unfamiliar setups, make critical architecture decisions, and ensure a secure, reliable platform. Collaboration with client DevOps teams and strong runbook documentation are essential.

Qualifications

• Azure experience is required; you’ve built and run production Azure environments.
• Terraform on Azure with proper state management and backends.
• Delivery path includes ACR, VM Scale Sets, and CI/CD with Azure DevOps or GitHub.
• Experience with Entra ID and RBAC across subscriptions.
• Strong writing and ability to share runbooks for live teams.

Responsibilities

• Stand up new platforms from scratch: network, compute, data, and pipelines.
• Make architecture calls and decide between in-place updates vs. destroy-and-replace.
• Lead migrations of live platforms to new foundations with rollback plans.
• Maintain platform health over time: upgrades, drift, security, and multi-client support.
• Collaborate directly with client DevOps engineers; explain plans and unblock failures.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

RBAC

Entra ID

Networking

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Azure Container Registry

VM Scale Sets

Cloud-init

Private DNS Zones

Job description

Makai Labs seeks a senior cloud platform engineer to own Azure-based foundations, stand up new environments from scratch, and maintain complex Terraform-driven deployments across client environments.

You will size up unfamiliar setups, make critical architecture decisions, and ensure a secure, reliable platform. Collaboration with client DevOps teams and strong runbook documentation are essential.