Lead Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Stanley Martin Homes Corporate Office, 11710 Plaza America Dr., Reston, Virginia, United States of America

Posted Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 4:00 AM

Who is Stanley Martin Homes?

At Stanley Martin Homes, we believe your work should have a purpose. With us, it truly does.

Our success starts with our people, and we are proud to foster a culture where every team member is valued and supported. At Stanley Martin Homes, you will work alongside passionate, knowledgeable professionals who are committed to doing the right thing, delivering exceptional homebuyer experiences, and putting home buyers first.

Stanley Martin Homes is one of the largest 25 homebuilders in the United States and it has been consistently one of the fastest growing. We are proud of the people‑first culture that makes it possible.

If you are ready to build a meaningful career and help families find the place they will call home, we would love to connect with you. Join our team and build a career that you will be proud of.

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The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer leads the modernization of our cloud environment by driving the implementation of advanced Azure PaaS and application platform capabilities that enable the delivery of scalable, secure, and modern cloud‑native applications. The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for building scalable, enterprise‑ready environments that empower our AI, Data, and Application teams to deploy workloads independently, replacing manual processes with automated, self‑service APIs and CI/CD blueprints.

By abstracting the underlying complexities of Azure PaaS and Kubernetes, this position will enable a streamlined, high‑performance experience for our engineering teams. The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer will build and operate these platforms, ensuring our application teams can deploy, run, and scale services reliably and securely.

Platform Architecture & Modernization: Design, build, and evolve our cloud platform to provide standardized, self‑service capabilities that support the modernization of our application portfolio.

Container & PaaS Orchestration: Lead the design, implementation, and operation of Azure Container Apps and Kubernetes (AKS) environments, ensuring scalable, high‑performance runtime environments.

Data & AI Ecosystem Integration: Architect and automate the deployment of data‑intensive platforms, including Azure Databricks and Snowflake, ensuring seamless integration with our application stack.

Engineering Enablement & Support: Work directly with development teams to debug deployment and runtime issues, improve application reliability, and drive platform stability through continuous improvements.

Incident Management: Participate in on‑call rotations, incident response, and root cause analysis to maintain high platform availability and performance.

Identity & Security Architecture: Implement secure design patterns using Managed Identities and Azure Key Vault to ensure secret management and service‑to‑service authentication.

API‑Driven Automation: Build and maintain API‑driven integrations to automate provisioning and lifecycle management for application, AI, and data workloads.

Infrastructure‑as‑Code: Define and enforce automated standards using IaC (Terraform/Bicep) and CI/CD policy‑as‑code to ensure security and compliance at the point of deployment.

Application Delivery & CI/CD: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions or Azure Dev Ops to standardize application deployment, environment promotion, and release automation.

Observability & Monitoring: Implement logging, monitoring, and alerting using Application Insights and Log Analytics to ensure platform health and support troubleshooting across distributed systems.

• 8–12+ years in cloud engineering with a focus on application platforms, PaaS services, and container orchestration.
• Deep experience with AKS / Azure Container Apps, API Management, Service Bus / Event Grid, and Databricks / Snowflake integrations.
• Hands‑on experience logging, monitoring, and diagnosing distributed systems to ensure platform health.
• Strong coding ability in…