Senior Platform Engineer: Azure Cloud, IaC & CI/CD Lead

Devopsroles; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 102,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient is seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to design and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and modern CI/CD pipelines. The role focuses on building reusable components, IaC with Pulumi, and cross-functional collaboration to improve reliability.

You will work with IAM, security, and SRE teams to ensure robust deployments, monitor performance, and optimize cloud costs while enabling self-service capabilities for developers.

Qualifications

• Experience designing secure, scalable cloud platforms on Azure.
• Experience with CI/CD and platform engineering practices.
• Familiarity with IaC tools like Pulumi and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure and platform engineering solutions.
• Develop reusable platform components, deployment templates, and self-service capabilities to streamline application delivery and infrastructure provisioning.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate software deployment and infrastructure management.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Pulumi to ensure consistent, repeatable cloud deployments.
• Configure and manage Azure services, including Virtual Networks, Private Endpoints, Azure DNS, Key Vault, Storage Accounts, AKS, APIM, and Azure Front Door.
• Implement Kubernetes deployment standards, container orchestration, scaling, resiliency, and secrets management practices.
• Integrate secure authentication and authorization solutions using Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, OAuth/OIDC, and workload identity federation.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities using Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics to improve platform reliability.
• Collaborate with application, security, IAM, and SRE teams to troubleshoot platform issues, improve operational performance, and support incident resolution.

Job description

Vizient is seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to design and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructure and modern CI/CD pipelines. The role focuses on building reusable components, IaC with Pulumi, and cross-functional collaboration to improve reliability.

You will work with IAM, security, and SRE teams to ensure robust deployments, monitor performance, and optimize cloud costs while enabling self-service capabilities for developers.