Senior Platform Engineer – Identity & Cloud Automation

akidolabs; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health benefits

401K

Long-term disability

Unlimited PTO

Life insurance

Paid Leave

Job summary

Akido is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and build identity, endpoint, and cloud infrastructure platforms on our Global IT team. This role emphasizes automation-first thinking, infrastructure as code, and scalable operations across the United States and affiliated medical groups.

You will own Microsoft Entra ID and Intune, establish cloud governance, and automate platform APIs with logging and monitoring.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent professional experience.
• 8+ years in enterprise IT infrastructure, platform, or systems engineering.
• 5+ years hands-on with Microsoft Entra ID at enterprise scale, including Conditional Access, authentication methods, privileged roles, and enterprise applications.
• 4+ years engineering Microsoft Intune at scale, including configuration and compliance policy, targeting strategy, Autopilot, update rings, and application deployment.
• 5+ years with Azure or AWS.
• 5+ years automating against platform APIs, including Microsoft Graph, in PowerShell, Python, or a comparable language.
• 3+ years of production IaC experience with Terraform, OpenTofu, Bicep, or ARM.

Responsibilities

• Own the Microsoft Entra ID identity platform, governance, and related policies.
• Engineer privileged access with least privilege and just-in-time elevation.
• Automate identity lifecycle and standardize SSO and provisioning for app onboarding.
• Establish cloud governance across accounts including landing zone design, networks, RBAC, secrets, logging, and cost visibility.
• Define cloud and platform configuration as code with peer review and pipelines.
• Lead tenant/domain/directory consolidation and retire legacy environments.
• Own Intune configuration and its integration with Conditional Access.
• Build unattended production automation against platform APIs with logging and monitoring.
• Collaborate with Security and Compliance to engineer auditable controls and change-control plans.
• Author runbooks and architecture decisions; mentor IT engineers.

Skills

Enterprise IT infrastructure

Microsoft Entra ID

Microsoft Intune

Azure/AWS

Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Open

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Bicep

ARM

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Akido is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and build identity, endpoint, and cloud infrastructure platforms on our Global IT team. This role emphasizes automation-first thinking, infrastructure as code, and scalable operations across the United States and affiliated medical groups.

You will own Microsoft Entra ID and Intune, establish cloud governance, and automate platform APIs with logging and monitoring.