Cloud & Platform Engineer (Azure) — 6-Month Contract

Role overview Design and operate the cloud platform supporting client products during a six-month contract. The work spans infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, performance, cost management, and security, with ownership to improve the platform and make operational issues visible early.

Responsibilities - Build and run Azure infrastructure, managing it as code. - Create CI/CD pipelines that support reliable, efficient production releases. - Set up monitoring, observability, and alerting to surface problems before they affect customers. - Improve platform performance while keeping cloud spending predictable and understandable. - Incorporate security and compliance controls into the platform for product teams to use.

Requirements - At least four years in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE on a major cloud provider; Azure experience is preferred. - Strong Terraform or Bicep skills. - Production experience with containers and Kubernetes. - Practical scripting and automation skills, with an instinct for reducing repetitive work. - A calm, methodical approach to incidents and the ability to ramp up quickly.

Nice to have - Experience with multi-region or multi-tenant systems. - Examples of cloud cost optimization. - Security or compliance experience in a regulated industry.

Benefits and work setup - Six-month contract with a defined scope and potential to extend. - Fully remote, globally accessible, async-first setup. - Ownership of platform improvements, with a hardware budget and fairly compensated on-call work.