Azure Platform Engineer

SR PLATFORM ENGINEER

Location:
Remote | Type:
Contract

About Newpage Solutions

Newpage Solutions is a global digital health innovation company helping people live longer, healthier lives. We partner with life sciences organisations which include, pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare leaders, to build transformative AI and data driven technologies addressing real-world health challenges.

From strategy and research to UX design and agile development, we deliver and validate impactful solutions using lean, human-centered practices.

We are proud to be a ‘Great Place to Work®’ certified company for the last three consecutive years. We also hold a top Glassdoor rating and are named among the  Top 50 Most Promising Healthcare Solution Providers  by CIOReview. As an organisation, we foster creativity, continuous learning and inclusivity, creating an environment where bold ideas thrive and make a measurable difference in people’s lives.

Your Mission

We are seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate an enterprise pro-code AI Agent Platform on Azure. The role blends cloud platform engineering and hands-on development to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant AI and analytics capabilities with a strong focus on developer experience

What You’ll Do

• Agent Platform Solution Development:
  Implement the design, engineering, security, compliance, release management, governance, financial management, roadmap, and service/operation of the enterprise pro-code AI agent platform on Azure, including Foundry integrations.
• Automate Cloud Infrastructure:
  Develop highly available, scalable, and reproducible Azure environments scripts using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform); implement CI/CD pipelines
• for platform components and configurations.
• Security & Compliance by Design:
  Implement robust controls across identity (RBAC), network (VNets/NSGs), data protection (encryption at rest/in transit), and policy guardrails (Azure Policy), aligned to enterprise and regulatory standards; support regular audits and hardening.
• Integrate Foundry & AI Services:
  Operationalize Microsoft Foundry and related AI/ML services to enable agentic applications; define patterns, SDK and CLI choices, and operational runbooks for development teams.
• Reliability Engineering & Observability:
  Establish comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, SLOs/SLAs, and incident response; proactively optimize performance, availability, and cost (e.g., autoscaling, right-sizing, reservations).
• Multi-Environment Operations:
  Contribute to manage global environments and self-service tenants; coordinate change governance, lifecycle management, and knowledge management
• (incident notes, KB articles, run-books, training curricula)

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Statistics, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 3+ years of professional experience, with 1+ hands-on with Microsoft Azure services: compute (VMs, AKS), storage (Blob/SQL), networking (VNet, NSGs), identity (Service Principals/RBAC), APIs (Azure API Management) web interfaces, agentic AI (Foundry/Agent 365).
• Demonstrated experience using Terraform (or equivalent IaC) and CI/CD (Azure Dev Ops/Git Hub Actions).
• Proven ability to implement cloud security best practices and compliance controls; incident resolution of medium technical complexity.
• Proficiency in scripting/programming for automation (e.g., Bash, Python);
  System administration.
• Grit when faced with technical issues - you don't rest until you understand what is happening and why things are not working.
• Collaborate with the Agent Platform team to maintain key informational content and drive platform adoption.
• Superior problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Foundry, Agent 365, Lang Chain, Lang Graph, MCPs, and agentic application patterns; familiarity with authentication/authorization (IAM,
• RBAC, Azure Policies).
• Familiarity with telemetry and observability to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help analyse agent’s performance and
• behaviour (Open Telemetry/Langfuse).
• Background with big data &…