Azure Platform Engineer: Terraform Modules & GitHub CI/CD

Accord Technologies Inc; Glen Allen (VA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Accord Technologies Inc in Glen Allen, VA is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to design and deliver standardized Terraform modules and reference patterns for Azure, enabling faster onboarding and consistent provisioning. You will build CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, collaborate with SRE teams, and ensure secure cloud foundations across AKS, ARO, Front Door, APIM, and other Azure services.

This contract role emphasizes reusable platform components, solid documentation, and strong

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on Azure engineering experience (or equivalent depth) delivering production-grade solutions.
• Strong hands-on Terraform experience building modules, composition patterns, and managing environments/state.
• Proven experience with Azure services such as AKS, ARO, Front Door, Storage Accounts, APIM, Functions, Azure SQL.
• Experience building CI/CD automation using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of secure cloud practices: RBAC, least privilege, secrets management, and deployment guardrails.
• Excellent documentation and collaboration skills; able to translate requirements into standardized building blocks.

Responsibilities

• Develop, and maintain reusable Terraform modules and reference architectures/patterns that align to internal standards and governance.
• Create golden path onboarding patterns that enable rapid and consistent provisioning for USB applications (e.g., network + compute + security + observability ready).
• Produce high-quality module documentation (inputs/outputs, examples, versioning) and enforce coding standards across repos.
• Provision and support Azure services using Terraform, including AKS, ARO, Azure Front Door, Storage Accounts, Azure API Management (APIM), Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database.
• Partner with SRE/CloudOps to implement reliable, scalable, and secure cloud foundations that reduce toil and improve onboarding velocity.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for Terraform plan/apply workflows, quality gates, and automated validations.
• Work closely with application teams to onboard workloads and translate requirements into reusable modules/patterns.
• Contribute to operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge capture to enable self-service onboarding and consistent execution.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

CI/CD

Documentation

Collaboration

Security best practices

Tools

GitHub Actions

AKS

Azure Front Door

Azure APIM

Azure Functions

Azure SQL Database

Key Vault

Job description

Accord Technologies Inc in Glen Allen, VA is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer to design and deliver standardized Terraform modules and reference patterns for Azure, enabling faster onboarding and consistent provisioning. You will build CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, collaborate with SRE teams, and ensure secure cloud foundations across AKS, ARO, Front Door, APIM, and other Azure services.

This contract role emphasizes reusable platform components, solid documentation, and strong