Platform Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure

This role supports the build, optimization, and ongoing operation of enterprise data and AI platforms within a large-scale, highly regulated environment. You'll work alongside senior engineers and cross-functional teams to deliver infrastructure, automation, and platform enhancements that enable data-driven decision making and AI innovation. This is a hands-on role focused on cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and platform reliability across modern data and AI ecosystems., * Collaborate with platform leads and senior engineers:

• Support delivery of platform initiatives and enhancements

• Provide regular updates and contribute to team objectives

• Partner with teams across security, networking, cloud operations, and application development

• Support cloud platform engineering and deployment:

• Assist in building and maintaining cloud infrastructure across Azure and related services

• Configure networking and security components (virtual networks, access controls, routing, private connectivity)

• Support data platform services including clusters, compute resources, and data governance tooling

• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code:

• Build reusable Terraform modules for cloud and data platform resources

• Standardize configurations and support automation initiatives

• Participate in code reviews and CI/CD validation processes

• Contribute to platform automation and process improvements:

• Develop scripts and tools to improve operational efficiency

• Help create documentation, SOPs, and onboarding materials

• Support continuous improvement of deployment and configuration standards

• Monitor platform performance and troubleshoot issues:

• Analyze logs, metrics, and system behavior to identify issues

• Support stability and performance optimization efforts

• Assist with maintaining observability using monitoring tools

• Support platform reliability and incident response:

• Participate in troubleshooting and remediation activities

• Assist with incident response under guidance from senior engineers

• Contribute to maintaining service-level objectives (SLOs)

• Build and maintain monitoring and alerting:

• Develop dashboards and alert rules for infrastructure and data workloads

• Support log ingestion and monitoring automation

• Support CI/CD and release management:

• Maintain pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps

• Assist with infrastructure deployment workflows (Terraform plan/apply)

• Support build and deployment of data platform assets

• Provide operational and production support:

• Assist with patching, remediation, and platform hardening

• Support user tickets and platform issues

• Participate in after-hours or on-call rotations as needed

• 5+ years of overall IT experience in enterprise environments

• 3-5 years of hands-on cloud engineering experience (Azure preferred)

• Strong experience with:

• Cloud infrastructure and networking concepts

• Identity and access management (IAM/RBAC)

• Core cloud services (storage, security, data services)

• Experience with data platforms:

• Hands-on exposure to tools like Databricks (clusters, jobs, basic data governance concepts)

• Infrastructure-as-code expertise:

• Terraform and Git-based development workflows

• CI/CD experience:

• Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions

• Scripting skills:

• Python, Bash, or PowerShell

• Containerization knowledge:

• Docker and basic Kubernetes concepts

• Monitoring and observability:

• Familiarity with cloud monitoring and logging tools

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate effectively

Nice to Have

• Experience working in regulated or enterprise-scale environments
• Exposure to data engineering or AI/ML platforms
• Experience building reusable infrastructure modules
• Familiarity with security and compliance best practices