Azure Lead Platform Engineer

Job Description

·        Lead your teams as they design, develop, and maintain platforms using Azure services, adhering to best practices for scalability, reliability, and security.

·        Design and deploy Windows and Linux servers following infrastructure as code and modern DevSecOps practices

·        Use configuration management tooling to automate the deployment and configuration of third-party software products

·        Design, deploy and administer Container Orchestration environments following infrastructure as code and modern DevSecOps practices

·        Design, deploy and maintain Container based solutions

·        Lead other platform engineers, providing guidance and mentoring to help others improve their skills.

·        Measure your team performance against industry benchmarks

·        Peer review code, ensuring it is of high quality, well-structured, and maintainable.

·        Lead a community of like-minded engineers to ensure we learn from one another and continuously improve our practices

Skill Requirement

Essential Technical Skills (all require 6yrs+ experience in production setting): 

·        Expert designing and building secure platforms on Azure using well architected framework

·        Expert with Infrastructure as Code tooling (e.g. Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi) 

·        Expert with Configuration Management tooling (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef) 

·        Expert with setting up and administering Container Orchestration systems (e.g. EKS, AKS, OpenShift) 

·        Expert with Container technologies (e.g. Helm, Harbour) 

·        Expert with Build & Release Automation (e.g. Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux, SonarQube) 

·        Expert with Coding Languages (e.g. Python, Bash, Powershell, Go) 

·        Expert working with distributed source control solutions and following best practices e.g. Git, branching, pull requests 

·        Expert in building products using enterprise integration patterns and practices (like event-driven architectures)

·        Must have Azure Solution Architect certification

Desirable Technical Skills: 

·        Experience with Cloud Networking 

·        Experience administering Operating Systems 

·        Experience setting up and administering observability tooling 

·        Experience of Agile and Product based Delivery 

·        Experience of good coding patterns & practices 

Essential Soft Skills: 

·        Bright, curious, entrepreneurial person who takes initiative and is willing to learn 

·        Passion to be a part of a cutting-edge team that challenges the status quo 

·        Expert knowledge of operating in DevSecOps environment 

·        Someone who knows what good looks like and inspires those around them to achieve 

·        Technically strong and willing and able to learn at a fast pace 

·        A can-do attitude and team player 

·        Focus on continuous improvement