Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps & Cloud Platform)

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

Job summary

Vizient is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and maintain secure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure in Chicago. You’ll build reusable platform components, deployment templates, and self-service capabilities to accelerate application delivery and infrastructure provisioning.

You will develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, implement IaC using Pulumi, and manage Azure services like AKS, APIM, and Front Door.

Qualifications

• Experience designing secure, scalable Azure-based cloud infrastructure.
• Proficient in building reusable platform components and self-service capabilities.
• Strong background in CI/CD, IaC, and cloud automation.

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.

Skills

Azure cloud

CI/CD pipelines

IaC (Pulumi)

Kubernetes

Identity & access management

Monitoring & observability

Tools

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

Azure

Dynatrace

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

AKS

APIM

Azure Front Door

Job description

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We value our talented employees and instill an environment where you feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute your unique skills and talents while living and working as your authentic self. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Our people make all the difference in our success.

Responsibilities

Required 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.

Preferred Responsibilities

• Contribute to platform engineering roadmaps, developer experience improvements, and cloud cost optimization initiatives.

Career Framework

Professional - Senior Associate (P3)

Estimated Hiring Range

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $102,400.00 to $179,000.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here: http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers