Senior Azure Platform Engineer

Indents: PSL312069-4 / PSL312069-5

Role: Senior Azure Platform Engineer

Location: Remote

Max Rate: $60/hr

We're seeking a Senior Platform Engineer (Azure) to design, build, and operate secure, scalable CI/CD and platform automation for City of Hope's cloud workloads—spanning research, clinical, and enterprise domains. You will be a technical leader driving best practices across Azure and GitHub, enabling product and data teams to deliver safely and quickly.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering & IaC
• Architect, implement, and maintain Azure landing zones and foundational services using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and GitOps patterns.
• Standardize environment provisioning, configuration, and policies with Azure Policy, Blueprints, Managed Identities, Key Vault and env zero.
• CI/CD & Developer Productivity
• Own and optimize the GitHub ecosystem: Pipelines/Actions, Repos, Packages/Artifacts, Environments, and protected branch strategies.
• Build reusable pipeline templates, task libraries, and golden paths for app, data, and ML teams (multi-stage YAML, environment approvals, gating, quality signals).
• Observability, SRE & Reliability
• Implement end-to-end telemetry with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights.
• Drive incident response, blameless postmortems, runbooks, and reliability engineering improvements (resiliency testing, autoscaling, chaos experiments).
• Security & Compliance
• Embed security-by-design: DevSecOps scanning (SAST/DAST/Secrets/Container) and policy-as-code (e.g., OPA).
• Ensure HIPAA-aligned controls across pipelines, secrets, networking (Private Link, VNET integration), data governance, and auditability.
• Cost & Performance Optimization
• Implement tagging strategies, budgets/alerts, rightsizing, and workload optimization for Azure services (compute, storage, networking, AI/ML).
• Collaboration & Leadership
• Review designs/PRs, advocate best practices, maintain documentation, and promote knowledge sharing.
• Partner with Infrastructure Services Manager to shape roadmaps, standards, and vendor/tool evaluations.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering with at least 4+ years focused on Microsoft Azure.
• Expert with GitHub (Actions, Advanced Security, Packages, Environments).
• Strong IaC experience with Terraform (modular design, remote state, and policy integration).
• Proficiency with scripting/automation (PowerShell, Python, Bash) and YAML-based pipelines.
• Containerization & orchestration: Docker, AKS (or Kubernetes equivalents), image registries, and admission controls.
• Observability in Azure: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights, alerting & dashboards.
• Proven track record implementing DevSecOps (SAST/DAST/Secrets scanning, IaC scanning, dependency management, SBOM).
• Understanding of healthcare compliance and security (e.g., HIPAA, HITRUST, PHI handling) or other regulated environments.
• Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting LLM/AI platforms (e.g., Azure ML, Azure OpenAI, model registries, feature stores, vector databases, Prompt/Guardrails).
• GitOps tools (e.g., Argo CD, Flux), policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest, Azure Policy).
• Networking in Azure: Hub/Spoke, Private Link, WAF, Application Gateway, Firewall, ExpressRoute/VPN, DNS, and certificate automation.
• Secret management at scale (Key Vault, managed identities, workload identities).
• Security frameworks and supply chain: GitHub Advanced Security, Dependabot, CodeQL, Defender for Cloud, Notary/COSIGN.
• Data platform familiarity (Databricks, Synapse, Purview) or eventing (Event Hubs, Service Bus, Kafka).
• Certifications: AZ‐400, AZ‐104/AZ‐305, CKA/CKAD, SC‐100/200, DP‐100 (nice to have).