Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Blueprint; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 1,400 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Competitive paid time off

Parental leave

Professional growth and development

Job summary

Blueprint is hiring a Senior Terraform Infrastructure Engineer to modernize a critical app from AKS/VMs to Azure Container Apps and Azure SQL. You’ll own the infrastructure, translate target architecture into secure Terraform modules, and guide platform decisions across engineering, security, data, and operations.

You’ll evaluate workloads, design scalable, serverless options, and ensure robust governance, security, and observability.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years infrastructure/platform/DevOps experience.
• Five+ years delivering production Azure environments with Terraform.
• Expert in Terraform architecture and IaC with 7+ years experience.
• Expert knowledge of AKS and Kubernetes troubleshooting with 7+ years.
• Experience supporting containerized APIs/web apps (7+ years).
• Six+ years in Azure migration architecture and platform selection.
• Five+ years modernizing/migrating apps on Azure VMs.
• Five+ years with Docker/OCI images and container security.

Responsibilities

• Lead Terraform architecture for migration landing zones, networking and security.
• Build reusable Terraform modules for Azure networks, private endpoints, NSGs, Container Apps, SQL and Key Vault.
• Manage Terraform providers, remote state, drift detection, policies, and CI/CD promotion.
• Evaluate AKS workloads and troubleshoot control-plane interactions, node pools and scheduling.
• Assess containerized APIs/web apps for runtime dependencies and scaling.
• Plan migrations from VM-hosted apps to Azure SQL/Managed Instances or retained VMs.
• Establish observability, alerts, runbooks, security evidence, and rollback procedures.
• Partner with engineering/security/data/ops to document decisions and migrations.

Skills

Terraform

AKS

Kubernetes

Azure

Terraform delivery

Docker

CI/CD

Azure Monitor

Security

Networking

Private connectivity

SQL Server/Azure SQL

Identity & Access

Observability

Tools

Terraform

AKS

Azure Container Apps

Azure SQL

Container Registry

OCI images

KEDA

Monitoring tools

CI/CD tools

Job description

Blueprint is a technology solutions firm headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, with teams across the United States. We help organizations turn complex challenges into meaningful outcomes by connecting strategy and execution across AI, cloud, data, product development, and emerging technology.

Our culture is built by people who care deeply about doing exceptional work. We set high standards, take ownership, and continually challenge ourselves and one another to be better. We work hard, support each other, and take genuine pride in what we deliver for our clients, partners, and teams.

At Blueprint, you’ll work alongside talented people with different experiences, expertise, and perspectives. You’ll have opportunities to take on meaningful challenges, expand your skills, and see the impact of what you build.

Bring your perspective. Raise the standard. Build what matters.

About the Role

Blueprint is hiring a Senior Terraform Infrastructure Engineer to help modernize a business-critical application currently running on Azure Kubernetes Service and virtual machines. The project will move suitable APIs, web applications, background workers, and databases to Azure Container Apps and Azure SQL, introducing a more efficient serverless architecture with capabilities such as event-driven scaling and scale-to-zero.

You’ll take ownership of the infrastructure that makes this migration possible, translating the target architecture into secure, reusable Terraform and helping guide key platform decisions along the way. This includes evaluating complex AKS and VM workloads, identifying what can be modernized, and determining what should remain on its current platform because of networking, storage, operating system, or Kubernetes-specific dependencies. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, security, data, and operations teams throughout assessment, design, testing, cutover, and rollback.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the Terraform architecture for migration landing zones, networking, identity, security, application platforms, databases, monitoring, and environment promotion.
• Build reusable Terraform modules and environments for Azure Virtual Networks, Private DNS, Private Endpoints, Network Security Groups, Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Apps, Azure SQL, Key Vault, managed identities, monitoring, and access controls.
• Manage Terraform providers, remote state, locking, environment separation, module versioning, drift detection, policy checks, plan reviews, and approved CI/CD promotion.
• Evaluate AKS workloads and troubleshoot control‑plane interactions, node pools, scheduling, taints, affinity, probes, Services, Ingress, DNS, network policies, CNI, storage, StatefulSets, DaemonSets, operators, custom resource definitions, admission controls, and workload identity.
• Assess containerized APIs and web applications for runtime dependencies, state management, configuration, database connections, health endpoints, startup behavior, scaling, ingress, egress, and external service dependencies.
• Assess Windows‑and Linux‑based applications hosted on Azure virtual machines, including scheduled tasks, local file dependencies, operating system integrations, certificates, ports, service accounts, and legacy deployment processes.
• Design Azure Container Apps environments for APIs, web applications, workers, jobs, and event‑driven services using revisions, readiness checks, traffic splitting, rollback, KEDA, and scale‑to‑zero capabilities where appropriate.
• Containerize VM‑hosted applications using secure OCI images, multi‑stage builds, non‑root execution, vulnerability scanning, structured logging, and reliable health probes.
• Determine when workloads must remain on AKS or virtual machines because of node dependencies, privileged access, operators, custom networking, persistent volumes, or operating system requirements.
• Plan migrations from SQL Server or Azure SQL hosted on virtual machines to Azure SQL Database, Elastic Pools, SQL Managed Instance, or a retained virtual machine.
• Manage database connections, validation, backups, cutover planning, rollback procedures, and measured capacity and performance sizing.
• Establish observability, alerts, operational runbooks, security evidence, load testing, failure testing, and rollback procedures.
• Partner with engineering, security, data, and operations stakeholders to document decisions and deliver a controlled migration.

What You’ll Bring

• At least eight years of experience in infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, or solution architecture.
• At least five years of experience delivering production Azure environments with Terraform.
• Expert knowledge of Terraform architecture and infrastructure as code, supported by at least seven years of relevant experience.
• Expert knowledge of AKS internals and Kubernetes troubleshooting, supported by at least seven years of relevant experience.
• Expert experience supporting containerized APIs and web applications, with at least seven years of relevant experience.
• At least six years of experience with Azure migration architecture and platform selection.
• At least five years of experience modernizing and migrating applications hosted on Azure virtual machines.
• At least five years of experience with Docker or OCI images and container security.
• At least four years of experience designing or supporting solutions using Azure Container Apps.
• At least five years of experience with Azure networking and private connectivity.
• At least four years of experience with managed identities, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Key Vault, and role‑based access control.
• At least five years of experience with SQL Server or Azure SQL hosted on virtual machines, including migration and performance planning.
• At least five years of experience with CI/CD, release automation, and rollback procedures.
• At least four years of experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and production operations.
• Demonstrated ownership of Terraform delivery for at least two VM‑or AKS‑based application and database migrations, including testing, security review, cutover, and rollback.
• Ability to read application code and Kubernetes manifests to diagnose API, web runtime, networking, identity, database, and scaling issues.
• Strong technical writing and communication skills, with the ability to work across engineering, security, data, and operations teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Compensation

At Blueprint, we strive to offer competitive pay that reflects the value of our team members. Compensation for this role is influenced by a variety of factors, including skills, education, responsibilities, experience, and geographic market.

For candidates based in Washington State, the anticipated compensation range is $143,400 to $172,100 USD annually, with a midpoint of $157,600. Please note that we typically do not hire new employees at the top of the posted range. Actual starting pay will be determined based on experience, skills, and internal equity. The final compensation and job title may vary depending on the selected candidate’s qualifications.

Location and Employment Structure

This role is open exclusively to candidates in the Seattle metropolitan area. The selected candidate must work onsite at the client’s Bellevue, Washington location five days per week.

This is a full‑time engagement expected to last at least six months, with the potential for extension.

Blueprint believes that healthy, supported employees do their best work. Eligible employees have access to a comprehensive benefits package that may include:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Competitive paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional growth and development opportunities

Benefits and eligibility may vary based on role, employment status, and location.

Blueprint Technologies, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital or familial status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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