Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer (Azure)

Role overview

Build and operate the Azure platform for an enterprise healthcare operations product handling regulated workforce and operational data. The work spans initial development environments through production infrastructure, with customer deployments isolated from one another. Two remote contract openings are available, including a Platform Lead; the Lead also guides architecture and represents the team in discussions with client architects and security teams.

Responsibilities

- Design and operate Azure subscriptions, landing zones, private networks, managed identities, secrets management, and monitoring. - Create reusable infrastructure modules and automated provisioning with Terraform or Bicep. - Establish secure build and development environments, then deploy production-ready infrastructure in the client’s Azure tenant. - Design customer-isolated environments, separating networks, encryption keys, and data stores, and make new deployments repeatable. - Build secure CI/CD pipelines with automated checks, security scanning, approvals, and controlled releases. - Implement identity, access, security, observability, backup, and disaster recovery controls; support incident response, operational documentation, and production troubleshooting. - For the Lead opening, own key architecture decisions, set engineering standards, coordinate platform work, and engage directly with client architecture and security stakeholders.

Requirements

- Senior-level experience designing, implementing, and operating production Azure environments end to end. - Strong hands-on Terraform or Bicep experience, including reusable modules and automated provisioning. - Experience securing platforms that handle sensitive data and supporting HIPAA, SOC 2, or comparable enterprise reviews, including remediation of assessment findings. - Practical expertise with Microsoft Entra ID, workload identities, least-privilege access, just-in-time and emergency access, credential rotation, and secure secrets management. - Experience designing customer-isolated infrastructure and secure CI/CD pipelines without long-lived credentials. - For the Lead role, prior experience leading a small platform team, setting technical standards, owning architecture, and presenting designs to enterprise stakeholders.

Nice to have

- Healthcare technology, Snowflake administration, production graph databases, Azure AI services, cloud security and governance tools, Kubernetes or container platforms, and AI-assisted infrastructure development.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote US contract expected to start around December 1, 2026, with a multi-month term and potential extension. US work authorization is required.