Senior Azure Platform Engineer — Cloud & IaC Lead

WME Group; Beverly Hills (CA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

WME Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the enterprise IT platform estate, centered on Microsoft Azure. You will design, automate, secure, and improve platforms, partnering with architecture to ensure reliability and cost-effectiveness.

You will lead landing zones, IaC, policy-as-code, observability, and platform resilience, while guiding cross-team engineering and governance. This senior role emphasizes architecture ownership over people management.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of infrastructure, cloud, or platform engineering experience with progressive responsibility.

Responsibilities

• Own Azure and hybrid-cloud platform architecture, including landing zones and governance.
• Establish and enforce IaC and policy-as-code standards across the estate.
• Own platform observability, DR posture, and incident response at enterprise scale.
• Implement platform security guardrails, hardening baselines, and cost governance.
• Coordinate with various teams to ensure platform reliability and performance.
• Mentor engineers and influence architecture decisions across pillars.

Skills

Azure platform

IaC automation

Security by design

Cost optimization

Cross-team influence

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

Bicep/ARM

Azure Monitor

Grafana

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

WME Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the enterprise IT platform estate, centered on Microsoft Azure. You will design, automate, secure, and improve platforms, partnering with architecture to ensure reliability and cost-effectiveness.

You will lead landing zones, IaC, policy-as-code, observability, and platform resilience, while guiding cross-team engineering and governance. This senior role emphasizes architecture ownership over people management.