Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Center for Elders' Independence; Oakland (CA); 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 will automate deployments, enforce security standards, and ensure observable, reliable production services across data, apps, and AI workloads.

The role requires strong Azure skills, IaC, CI/CD, and collaboration with security, data, and infrastructure teams to support enterprise integrations and healthcare data environments.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on knowledge of Azure serverless computing and related services.
• Experience with IaC and automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of Entra ID, RBAC, Key Vault, networking, and secure connectivity.
• Proficiency in scripting with PowerShell or Python and Azure CLI.
• Experience in incident response, root-cause analysis, and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, operate, and improve CEI's Azure and Fabric platform.
• Automate deployments and enforce security and operational standards.
• Establish development, QA, and production environments with access controls.
• Provision resources using IaC (Bicep, ARM, Terraform).
• Develop CI/CD pipelines for cloud apps and data services.
• Implement centralized logging, monitoring, and dashboards for production.
• Troubleshoot incidents and drive root-cause analysis.
• Manage identities, secrets, and secure connectivity with CEI teams.
• Define standards for naming, tagging, backup, and production readiness.
• Review vendor cloud components for architecture and support alignment.
• Monitor platform performance, capacity, and cost; propose improvements.
• Create runbooks and docs to enable teams.

Skills

Azure serverless

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

RBAC

Key Vault

Monitoring/logging

Scripting (PowerShell)

Python

Azure CLI

Incident response

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

ARM templates

Bicep

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

The Center for Elders’ Independence is a PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the elderly) organization (PO) that uses an interdisciplinary team approach for care planning and implementing purposeful high quality, affordable, and integrated health care services to the elderly. Our elderly meet PACE requirements as prescribed by CMS and are referred to as participants. Our PO includes Adult Day Health Centers and primary care clinics, promoting participant autonomy, quality of life and the ability for individuals to live in their communities

THE POSITION

We are seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and continuously improve CEI’s Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric platform. This hands‑on role provides the shared cloud foundation for enterprise integrations, APIs, workflow automation, data pipelines, internal applications, analytics, and AI solutions. The engineer will establish consistent development, QA, and production environments; automate deployments; implement security and operational standards; and ensure that cloud services are observable, reliable, scalable, and supportable in production.

The annual pay range for the Principal Cloud Platform Engineer position at Center for Elders’ Independence is $113,713 to $173,981. Placement within the range is determined based on job‑related factors such as relevant experience, skills, abilities, internal equity, and market data, consistent with CEI’s annual compensation review and established compensation practices.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build, configure, and maintain Azure cloud‑native services, including Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Event Hubs or Service Bus, API Management, Container Apps, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and related services.

• Support Microsoft Fabric and OneLake connectivity, deployment, integration, monitoring, and production operations in partnership with data and analytics teams.

• Establish and maintain standardized development, QA, and production environments with appropriate separation, access controls, configuration management, and release processes.

• Provision and manage cloud resources through repeatable Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, ARM templates, Terraform, or comparable tools.

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for cloud applications, integrations, automation, and data services using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or comparable platforms.

• Implement centralized logging, monitoring, alerting, service‑health checks, dashboards, and operational telemetry for production services.

• Troubleshoot cloud incidents, coordinate recovery, perform root‑cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.

• Manage application identities, role‑based access, secrets, certificates, service accounts, and secure connectivity in coordination with CEI Security and Infrastructure teams.

• Define and enforce standards for resource naming, tagging, configuration, deployment, rollback, backup, recovery, and production readiness.

• Review vendor‑delivered cloud components for alignment with CEI architecture, security, documentation, support, and operational requirements.

• Monitor platform performance, capacity, availability, cloud utilization, and cost; recommend practical improvements to reliability and efficiency.

• Create reusable platform components, technical documentation, operational runbooks, and support procedures that enable application, integration, data, automation, and AI teams.

• Support the transition of prototypes and project deliverables into governed, secure, and fully supported production services.

• Work collaboratively with Enterprise Applications, Data Engineering, Security, Infrastructure, project teams, implementation partners, and vendors.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong hands‑on knowledge of Azure serverless computing, messaging, APIs, containers, identity, secrets management, monitoring, and logging.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated CI/CD pipelines.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, Key Vault, networking, and secure application connectivity.

• Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Python, Azure CLI, or similar tools.

• Experience with production incident response, troubleshooting, root‑cause analysis, and operational documentation.

• Ability to translate architecture, security, and operational requirements into repeatable platform standards and implementation patterns.

• Strong analytical, organizational, documentation, and communication skills.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.

• Five or more years of experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or a closely related technical role.

• Demonstrated experience building and supporting production services in Microsoft Azure.

• Experience supporting controlled development, QA, and production environments in an enterprise setting.

• Experience working across application, data, security, infrastructure, and vendor teams.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Fabric deployment pipelines, or Fabric administration.

• Experience supporting enterprise integration platforms, event-driven architectures, APIs, or workflow automation.

• Experience working with healthcare, PII, PHI, HIPAA-regulated data, or other regulated environments.

• Microsoft Azure, DevOps, security, or related technical certifications.

The above job description is intended to communicate the general function of the mentioned position and by no means shall be considered an exhaustive or complete outline of the specific tasks and functions that will be required. CEI reserves the right to change job descriptions, site assignments, and or work hours as required by the needs of the program. All employees are expected to perform their duties within their ability as required by the job and/or as requested by management.