> Markdown version of [/jobs/ext/1220039-senior-azure-platform-devops-engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/jobs/ext/1220039-senior-azure-platform-devops-engineer). Every page supports `.md` or `Accept: text/markdown`. Links point to the HTML versions so they work for humans too. Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Azure Platform / DevOps Engineer - **Company:** Makai Inc - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $124,800.0 - $156,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Domain Name System (DNS), Github, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, Role-Based Access Control, Redis, Scripting, Load Balancing, Azure Data Factory, Terraform - **Published:** July 9, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e38608f9eb1d2058 ## About the Role Azure experience is the hard requirement. You've built and run production Azure yourself, not just used modules someone else wrote. Specifically: * Azure networking is where most of the work lives: VNets and subnets, private endpoints and private DNS zones, NSGs and UDRs, NAT, Application Gateway and WAF, load balancers, and hub-and-spoke / Virtual WAN. * Terraform on Azure, with state treated as something you respect: workspaces, migrations, imports, remote backends, and the discipline not to force an apply through a lifecycle guard. * The delivery path: Azure Container Registry, VM Scale Sets and cloud-init, and CI/CD with Azure DevOps or GitHub. * Azure data services: Postgres Flexible Server, managed Redis, Blob storage, and a real sense of their sizing, failover, and cutover risks. * Entra ID and RBAC: app registrations, service principals, role assignments scoped properly across subscriptions. * Clear writing and a level head on a live call. You can hand someone a runbook they can follow without you in the room., * Azure certs (AZ-104, AZ-305). * Temporal or similar workflow runtimes, and scripting (Bash, Python) for the glue. * Past consulting or client-embedded work. You've been the outside expert before., Small senior teams, real ownership. We'd rather have one engineer who understands a platform top to bottom than several who each own a slice., * Be a flexible, innovative and creative thinker * Be congenial and a team player * Be self-sufficient * Be self-driven with an ownership mentality * Have a strong work ethic ## Description We build and run cloud platforms for our clients. A lot of the time that means standing up a reusable Terraform foundation and adapting it for each client and environment. You'd own these platforms: design them, build them from an empty subscription, keep them running, and act as the person who actually knows how the whole thing fits together., * Make the architecture calls and live with them. That includes knowing when a Terraform change is a safe in-place update and when it's a destroy-and-replace you should never run blind against production. * Run migrations that carry real risk. Move a live platform onto a new foundation, read the plan correctly, write the runbook, and have a rollback ready before you start. * Keep platforms healthy over time: provider upgrades, drift, security, and not letting a shared foundation rot as more clients land on it. * Work directly with the client's own DevOps engineers. 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