Remote Senior Platform Engineer Azure, Data & AI

Howden; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Howden is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate Azure-based AI and data platforms. You will own the end‑to‑end delivery of landing zones, data platforms, and AI runtimes with a focus on codified infrastructure and secure, scalable engineering practices.

You will work across Azure services, Databricks, and governance tools to enable product teams while maintaining security, cost, and compliance across a remote United States footprint.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent hands‑on experience.
• 6+ years of professional experience in cloud platform, infrastructure, or data engineering.
• 3+ years of production experience on Azure.
• Strong Terraform experience provisioning Azure infrastructure at scale.
• Hands‑on experience with Azure networking, identity, and security (RBAC, Key Vault, Entra ID).
• Production experience with Databricks and data orchestration tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Azure landing zones for AI and data workloads, with repeatable code delivery.
• Develop and maintain the Databricks Lakehouse platform with governed access and cost controls.
• Implement Azure AI Foundry and AI Gateway patterns and agent hosting.

Skills

Independent delivery

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

Azure

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Data Factory

Job description

Howden is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate Azure-based AI and data platforms. You will own the end‑to‑end delivery of landing zones, data platforms, and AI runtimes with a focus on codified infrastructure and secure, scalable engineering practices.

You will work across Azure services, Databricks, and governance tools to enable product teams while maintaining security, cost, and compliance across a remote United States footprint.