Remote Senior Azure Platform Engineer for Automation

Phaidra; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

100% remote company

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Unlimited paid time off

Parental leave

Workspace stipends

Company MacBook

Job summary

Phaidra, a fully remote US-based company, seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to build Azure foundations, deployment workflows, and Kubernetes capabilities that scale with our AI-driven industrial automation platform.

You’ll own platform design across security, observability, and reliability, partnering with product and AI teams to deliver robust cloud-native solutions from Azure foundations to production-ready tooling.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform/infrastructure engineering or SRE with infrastructure focus.
• Strong production Azure experience: AKS, Entra ID, private endpoints, Key Vault, Monitor.
• Production Kubernetes: workload identity, networking, storage, autoscaling, incident debugging.
• IaC with Terraform and packaging systems (Kapitan, Helm, Kustomize).
• Experience with GitOps and CI/CD in production.
• Ownership of ambiguous initiatives spanning multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Azure platform foundations for Phaidra’s stack.
• Develop developer platform, delivery pipelines, and governance.
• Improve reliability, security, and observability across Azure deployments.
• Mentor engineers and lead platform initiatives with cross-team impact.

Skills

Azure

AKS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Kustomize

Crossplane

Python

Go

GitOps

CI/CD

Security

Tools

Kapitan

Open-source tooling

Job description

Phaidra, a fully remote US-based company, seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to build Azure foundations, deployment workflows, and Kubernetes capabilities that scale with our AI-driven industrial automation platform.

You’ll own platform design across security, observability, and reliability, partnering with product and AI teams to deliver robust cloud-native solutions from Azure foundations to production-ready tooling.