Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – DevSecOps & Observability

Dexian; Maryland Heights (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexian is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer III in St. Louis to enable development and operations teams with a robust, scalable, and secure platform.

You will help build foundations that empower software delivery reliably and securely across the SDLC. You will design and maintain self-service platform capabilities, implement CI/CD, IaC, and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates, and collaborate across teams to improve observability, reliability, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or IT related field.
• Five or more professional certifications relevant to cloud, DevOps, or security.
• Demonstrated expertise in Azure ecosystem, identity, networking, and compute services.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools like Terraform, ARM templates, and Ansible.
• Strong background in CI/CD systems, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes on Azure), and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.
• Proficient in observability tooling and practices across cloud-native and hybrid environments.
• Solid grasp of cloud security practices and integrating security into infrastructure and application delivery pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain self-service platform capabilities that streamline application delivery, observability, and operational workflows across the organization.
• Develop infrastructure and tooling that supports scalable CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates.
• Standardize and automate platform operations including provisioning, configuration management, secrets management, and runtime orchestration.
• Engineer comprehensive observability solutions (logging, metrics, traces) using tools such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog.
• Implement reliability patterns and SRE-inspired practices to improve service performance, availability, and scalability.
• Embed secure-by-default practices into platform tooling and pipelines to support DevSecOps principles.

Skills

Platform engineering

CI/CD workflows

Observability principles

Security best practices

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or IT related field

Tools

Terraform

ARM templates

Ansible

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Datadog

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Dexian is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer III in St. Louis to enable development and operations teams with a robust, scalable, and secure platform.

You will help build foundations that empower software delivery reliably and securely across the SDLC. You will design and maintain self-service platform capabilities, implement CI/CD, IaC, and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates, and collaborate across teams to improve observability, reliability, and