Senior Azure Cloud & Platform Engineer

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Full Time 2 Professional Seal Beach, CA, US

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

The Senior Azure Cloud & Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, building, automating, and operating the Bank's Microsoft Azure cloud platform in support of its technology modernization strategy. This role plays a key part in establishing the Azure foundation, cloud engineering standards, automation frameworks, and operational practices that will enable scalable, secure, and resilient technology capabilities across the organization.

The Senior Azure Cloud & Platform Engineer leverages deep expertise in Azure cloud services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Kubernetes, identity and access management, cybersecurity, automation, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and platform reliability engineering. Working closely with Infrastructure, Network Engineering, Information Security, Application Development, Enterprise Architecture, Risk Management, and Audit teams, this position helps design and deliver secure, compliant, and reusable cloud solutions that support the Bank's business objectives.

• Design, build, implement, and support enterprise-class Microsoft Azure infrastructure and platform services that align with the Bank's strategic technology objectives.
• Establish, maintain, and continuously enhance Azure Landing Zones, including management groups, subscriptions, resource organization, governance policies, identity integration, logging, security controls, and compliance standards.
• Develop and maintain standardized, reusable cloud platform architectures and engineering patterns that enable secure, scalable, and efficient adoption of Azure services across the organization.
• Engineer universally available, scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions, including backup, business continuity, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Support the modernization, transformation, and migration of approved on-premises applications, systems, and infrastructure workloads to Microsoft Azure.
• Build, maintain, and optimize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Bicep, and Azure-native deployment technologies.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment frameworks utilizing Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, and Git-based repositories.
• Automate provisioning, configuration management, compliance validation, monitoring, and operational processes using Power Shell, Azure CLI, Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Design, deploy, administer, and support Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments, including cluster lifecycle management, scaling, security, observability, networking, and integration with Azure Container Registry.
• Implement and administer Microsoft Entra , Azure RBAC, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Managed Identities, Key Vault, Azure Policy, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud in accordance with least-privilege access and Zero Trust security principles.
• Design and maintain enterprise monitoring and observability solutions utilizing Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, dashboards, metrics, and alerting frameworks.
• Collaborate closely with Information Security, Risk Management, Compliance, Audit, Infrastructure, Network Engineering, and Application Development teams to embed security, governance, and regulatory controls into cloud solutions.
• Participate in incident response, problem management, root cause analysis, production support activities, and continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform reliability and performance.
• Establish and maintain cloud governance standards, resource tagging strategies, cost management practices, budgeting visibility, and optimization initiatives to ensure efficient cloud consumption.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, standards, procedures, and architecture diagrams related to Azure platform services.
• Evaluate emerging Azure technologies, cloud engineering practices, and automation capabilities, providing recommendations that support the Bank's cloud strategy and operational maturity.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and mentor to team members, promoting cloud engineering best practices, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning throughout the organization.
• Participate in after-hours support, scheduled maintenance…