Staff Engineer, Cloud Engineering

The Core Responsibilities!

Cloud Platform Engineering & Operations (30%) 

• Design, build, and optimize Azure platform components including App Services, Azure Functions, Key Vaults, and API Management. 

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or Bicep for scalable and secure resource provisioning. 

• Implement observability patterns across infrastructure and workloads using tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights. 

• Collaborate with architecture, security, and operations teams to ensure platforms meet SLAs, DR/RTO requirements, and compliance expectations. 

Power Platform Enablement (30%) 

• Develop and maintain automation for Power Platform lifecycle management, including ALM pipelines and environment provisioning. 

• Implement data loss prevention (DLP) policies, app usage reporting, and licensing optimization for Power Platform components. 

• Collaborate with Governance and Security teams to establish safe, compliant citizen development frameworks. 

• Provide technical guidance to Power Platform users and support solution acceleration across the organization. 

AKS Platform & DevOps Practices (20%) 

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps to deploy containerized workloads into AKS. 

• Implement secure AKS architectures, including ingress, autoscaling, monitoring, and security controls. 

• Enable GitOps patterns and promote modern deployment practices in collaboration with product engineering teams. 

• Contribute to DevSecOps initiatives and embed security, performance, and resiliency into deployment pipelines. 

Platform Process & Maturity Improvements (20%) 

• Lead initiatives to improve cloud platform operational processes, including incident management, platform health, and self-service enablement. 

• Define platform engineering standards and reusable blueprints to reduce manual effort and increase team efficiency. 

• Contribute to FinOps and cost optimization practices through resource tagging, usage reporting, and automation. 

• Promote knowledge sharing and engineering excellence across teams through documentation, workshops, and reusable patterns. 

Let's Talk About You!

• Post-Secondary education, preferably in the areas of Technology. 

• 8+ years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering roles in enterprise environments. 

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Azure, PaaS services, Power Platform, and AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service). 

• Knowledge of GCP is considered an asset. 

• Strong experience with Terraform/Bicep, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based workflows. 

• Strong background in cloud solution architecture and development of low‑level design documentation 

• Practical understanding of DevOps and SRE practices including automation, observability, and incident response. 

• Experience supporting Power Platform governance (DLP, ALM, monitoring) and citizen development enablement. 

• Skilled in designing secure and scalable AKS workloads and containerized platform services. 

• Excellent collaboration, documentation, and cross-functional communication skills. 

• Proficient in scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell, Bash) and YAML/JSON-based configurations.