Remote Azure Platform Engineer - Terraform & CI/CD Lead

Vaco; Brentwood (TN); Remote; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco is seeking a Senior Azure Platform Engineer to help build out an Azure environment that is still early and allow significant influence over its development. This is a hands-on role where you will own infrastructure provisioning, IaC, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, cloud security, networking, and the standards developers use to deploy into Azure.

You will enable internal teams—applications, analytics, automation, and AI—to ship solutions securely.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.
• Deep Terraform experience in production environments.
• Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Azure networking and cloud security.
• Experience with Azure landing zones and cloud governance.
• Knowledge of Entra ID, managed identities, RBAC, Key Vault, and private connectivity.
• Experience troubleshooting production cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to work independently and make sound infrastructure decisions.
• Strong communication skills when working with developers and non-infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Create reusable Terraform modules and standardized deployment patterns.
• Design and maintain Azure landing zones, subscriptions, naming standards, tagging, and policies.
• Build and support CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub.
• Design Azure networking including VNets, subnets, DNS, routing, private endpoints, firewalls, and load balancing.
• Implement Entra ID, RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, and least-privilege access.
• Support Azure SQL and other cloud platform services.
• Improve monitoring, logging, backup, recovery, and infrastructure change tracking.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure work using PowerShell, Python, or Azure CLI.
• Partner with developers and technical teams to turn requirements into secure, scalable infrastructure.
• Help establish Azure environments for new AI, automation, analytics, and internal application initiatives.

Skills

Cloud infra

Platform engineering

DevOps

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Azure networking

Cloud security

Independent work

Communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

PowerShell

Python

Azure CLI

Entra ID

Key Vault

Job description

Vaco is seeking a Senior Azure Platform Engineer to help build out an Azure environment that is still early and allow significant influence over its development. This is a hands-on role where you will own infrastructure provisioning, IaC, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, cloud security, networking, and the standards developers use to deploy into Azure.

You will enable internal teams—applications, analytics, automation, and AI—to ship solutions securely.