Cloud Platform Engineer

Madison-Davis; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Madison-Davis, LLC is seeking a hands-on Cloud Platform Engineer to accelerate initiatives across cloud infrastructure, containers, identity, DevOps, automation, and app delivery. You will own workstreams from design to production readiness, documentation, and operational transition.

You will design secure cloud capabilities in Azure and AWS, manage AKS, and enhance GitHub workflows, while building IaC with Terraform and Bicep. Onsite four days a week in Midtown Manhattan.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 7+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Deep AKS and Kubernetes engineering experience.
• Strong Azure experience and working AWS knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design and build secure cloud capabilities across Azure and AWS.
• Engineer and operate AKS/Kubernetes environments.
• Improve GitHub Enterprise, Actions, workflows and runner infra.
• Develop infrastructure as code using Terraform and Bicep.
• Migrate existing infra into standardized Terraform management.
• Implement identity integrations across Entra ID and Okta.
• Create reusable automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash or APIs.
• Establish monitoring, DR, docs, and support processes.

Skills

Cloud platform engineering

DevOps practices

Automation mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure

AWS

AKS/Kubernetes

GitHub Enterprise & Actions

Terraform

Bicep

Entra ID/Okta

Python/PowerShell/Bash

Job description

A global financial-services organization is seeking an experienced Cloud Platform Engineer to accelerate active initiatives across cloud infrastructure, containers, identity, DevOps, automation, and application delivery. This is a hands‑on engineering position for someone who can quickly understand an established enterprise platform, independently own significant workstreams, and carry solutions from design through implementation, production readiness, documentation, and operational transition.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design and build secure cloud capabilities across Azure and AWS.
• Engineer and operate AKS/Kubernetes environments.
• Improve GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, and runner infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and Bicep.
• Migrate existing infrastructure into standardized Terraform management.
• Implement identity integrations across Entra ID, Okta, cloud workloads, and enterprise applications.
• Create reusable automation using Python, PowerShell, Bash, APIs, or similar technologies.
• Establish appropriate monitoring, reliability, disaster recovery, documentation, and support processes.
• Partner with engineering, application, operations, security, and risk teams through delivery and production transition.

Role Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Deep AKS and Kubernetes engineering experience.
• Strong Microsoft Azure experience and working AWS knowledge.
• Expert-level GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Actions experience.
• Experience with GitHub runner infrastructure.
• Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience.
• Infrastructure migration or refactoring experience, including Bicep and Terraform.
• Microsoft Entra ID and/or Okta experience.
• Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar automation experience.
• Experience delivering production enterprise platforms.
• Ability to work onsite four days per week in Midtown Manhattan.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Financial services, legal, or another highly regulated industry.
• Azure Data Factory or Azure Virtual Desktop.
• Terraform across additional cloud, networking, or security providers.
• Identity federation protocols such as OAuth, OIDC, SAML, or SCIM.
• Disaster recovery, cloud cost management, or advanced observability experience.