Senior Terraform & Azure Platform Engineer

External Only | Blueprint Technologies; Bellevue (KY); On-site; USD 143,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible Spending Account

401(k) retirement plan

Competitive paid time off

Parental leave

Professional growth and development

Job summary

Blueprint Technologies, LLC in Seattle area seeks a Senior Terraform Infrastructure Engineer to modernize Azure-based apps, migrate workloads, and design serverless, containerized solutions. You will own Terraform delivery across AKS, VMs, and databases, guiding secure, scalable architecture and cross-team collaboration.

The role emphasizes hands-on Terraform modules, Azure Container Apps, AKS, and SQL migrations, with a focus on security, observability, and reliable rollback plans.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years in infrastructure/DevOps/cloud engineering.
• Five+ years delivering production Azure environments with Terraform.
• Expert knowledge of Terraform and IaC with 7+ years.
• Expert knowledge of AKS and Kubernetes troubleshooting with 7+ years.
• Experience with containerized APIs and web apps with 7+ years.
• Five+ years Azure migration architecture and platform selection.
• Five+ years modernizing apps on Azure VMs.
• Five+ years CI/CD, release automation, rollback experience.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Terraform architecture

AKS / Kubernetes

Azure cloud

CI/CD

Security & compliance

Terraform modules

Tools

Terraform

Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure Container Apps

Azure SQL

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Blueprint Technologies, LLC in Seattle area seeks a Senior Terraform Infrastructure Engineer to modernize Azure-based apps, migrate workloads, and design serverless, containerized solutions. You will own Terraform delivery across AKS, VMs, and databases, guiding secure, scalable architecture and cross-team collaboration.

The role emphasizes hands-on Terraform modules, Azure Container Apps, AKS, and SQL migrations, with a focus on security, observability, and reliable rollback plans.