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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer - **Company:** BMaddox Enterprises LLC - **Location:** Sioux Falls, SD, United States - **Salary:** $102,000.0 - $125,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Microsoft Access, Build Automation, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Configuration Management, Databases, Continuous Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), DevOps, Document-Oriented Databases, Load Testing, Systems Development Life Cycle, Role-Based Access Control, Reliability Engineering, Cloud Services, Runbook, Systems Integration, Data Logging, Scripting, Cloud Platform System, Performance Testing, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Software Version Control - **Published:** September 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=cb3c8baa7b3f0f5c ## About the Role * Hands-on experience with Azure, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and modern software delivery. * Strong background in Infrastructure as Code, automation, scripting, configuration management, and provisioning. * Coding or scripting experience for automation, platform tooling, deployments, ETL, and integrations. * Working knowledge of databases, data movement, performance, recovery, access, and environment configuration. * Experience with secure, reliable, observable, and performance-aware workflows across SDLC environments. * Knowledge of cloud security, networking, identity, secrets, monitoring, logging, and compliance-minded engineering. * Exposure to modern observability, security, source control, container, and cloud platform tooling. * Ability to turn engineering pain points into reusable platform capabilities, standards, and self-service enablement. * Comfort working in a small, fast-moving team with hands-on ownership and strong collaboration. * Ideal background includes experience as a senior DevOps, Cloud, Site Reliability, Platform, or software-adjacent infrastructure engineer, with readiness to establish the first formal platform engineering capability in a growing organization. * Ability to own DevOps execution today while building standards, automation, database-aware deployment practices, and delivery patterns that scale software delivery over time. ## Description The Platform Engineer will own near-term DevOps execution while building secure, reusable cloud, CI/CD, infrastructure, observability, database, and automation patterns across Azure and Azure DevOps. 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