Principal Cloud Platform Engineer

Center for Elders; United States; 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’ll build cloud foundations for integrations, APIs, data pipelines, analytics, and AI solutions, with automated deployments and production-ready environments.

You will implement security, observability, and scalable cloud services, while coordinating with security and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability and cost efficiency.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on knowledge of Azure serverless, APIs, containers, identity, secrets, monitoring and logging.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, Key Vault, networking, and secure connectivity.
• Automation skills using PowerShell, Python, Azure CLI, or similar tools.
• Experience in production incident response, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Ability to translate requirements into repeatable platform standards.
• Strong analytical, organizational, documentation, and communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field; 5+ years in cloud/platform/DevOps/SRE.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, and maintain Azure cloud-native services and related tooling.
• Support Fabric and OneLake connectivity, deployment, and production operations.
• Establish standardized dev/QA/prod environments with proper controls.
• Provision resources using IaC (Bicep, ARM, Terraform).
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Implement centralized logging, monitoring, dashboards, and telemetry.
• Troubleshoot incidents, coordinate recovery, and perform RCAs.
• Manage identities, secrets, certificates, and secure connectivity.
• Define standards for naming, tagging, deployment, backup, and readiness.
• Review vendor components for alignment with architecture and security.
• Monitor performance, capacity, cost, and reliability; suggest improvements.
• Create reusable platform components and runbooks for teams.
• Support transition of prototypes into governed production services.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Applications, Data, Security, Infrastructure teams.

Skills

Azure serverless

APIs

Messaging

Containers

Identity and secrets

Monitoring and logging

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting and automation

Incident response

Platform standards

Documentation

Azure security

Azure DevOps

Azure CLI

PowerShell

Python

RBAC and Key Vault

Azure Monitor

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Bicep

ARM templates

PowerShell

Python

Azure CLI

Job description

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.

Center for Elders’ Independence is a PACE (Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly) organization that uses an interdisciplinary team approach to care planning and care implementation for the purpose of providing high quality, affordable, integrated health care services to the elderly, including an Adult Day Health Center, and promoting autonomy, quality of life and the ability of individuals to live in their communities.