We are looking for ambitious and talented Platform Architect with significant automation experience to architect and lead the platform engineering program. You will be a key contributor on a technology team that creates solutions designed to propel an $90 billion-dollar investment firm to the next level. This position has tremendous opportunity for professional growth. Our mission is to ensure that you will learn and grow faster here than you would anywhere else.
Overall Responsibilities:
- Build, maintain, and extend Azure DevOps deployment pipelines in support of an Infrastructure as Code environment.
- Develop repeatable infrastructure deployments using Terraform, Bicep, Azure Resource Manager templates, and related automation tools.
- Support Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS environments, including compute, networking, identity integration, monitoring, policy, and operational configuration.
- Administer and support DevOps capabilities, including source control, repositories, pipeline management, CI/CD tooling, and deployment workflows.
- Support Cloudflare technologies, including DNS, access, application protection, and related services.
- Drive innovation for repetitive, manual, or error-prone platform engineering workflows through AI-enabled automation, scripting, version control, and standard operating patterns.
- Apply Generative AI and Agentic AI capabilities to improve engineering speed, decision support, troubleshooting quality, documentation, monitoring insight, and operational efficiency.
- Research, plan, and execute vulnerability remediation and secure configuration improvements for assigned platform, cloud, DevOps, automation, and server systems.
- Partner with Information Security on vulnerability findings and configuration standards while owning the technical remediation, validation, documentation, and operational follow-through for assigned platforms.
- Apply security-by-design practices to Infrastructure as Code, deployment pipelines, cloud services, platform configuration, and automation workflows.
- Participate in releases, platform maintenance, and occasional after-hours support for enterprise systems.
- Use telemetry, monitoring, alerting, platform reliability metrics, deployment outcomes, vulnerability trends, and recurring issue patterns to improve platform performance, security, reliability, automation, supportability, and service quality.
- Support efforts involving enterprise networking technologies, including Palo Alto, HPE Aruba, Juniper, and Cisco.
- Support planned change and release activities by coordinating technical implementation, validating deployment readiness, documenting changes, and reducing operational risk.
- Implement and improve telemetry, monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities that support platform reliability, performance, security, and operational visibility.
- Participate in business continuity and disaster recovery planning, testing, and recovery readiness activities.
- Document configurations, deployment patterns, secure configuration decisions, and operating procedures for shared support and operational consistency.
- Communicate effectively with platform stakeholders, users, vendors, and technical peers.
- Participate in Agile work management practices, including backlog review, sprint planning, task updates, retrospectives, and delivery tracking.
- Partner with Customer Success to support network access, Microsoft Entra, endpoint connectivity, and related user-facing infrastructure services, serving as an occasional escalation point when issues require deeper platform or infrastructure expertise.
- Perform other related duties and projects as assigned
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience supporting a Microsoft Azure IaaS platform or comparable enterprise cloud infrastructure environment.
- Experience using Agile practices or Agile work management tools to plan, track, and deliver technical work.
- Demonstrated experience engineering and improving DevOps capabilities, including source control, repositories, pipeline management, CI/CD tooling, and deployment workflows.
- Knowledge of Windows Server configuration, IIS, .NET hosting concepts, and related platform administration.
- Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code concepts and tools, including Terraform, Bicep, Azure Resource Manager templates, or comparable automation frameworks.
- Experience supporting vulnerability remediation, secure configuration, or platform hardening for cloud, server, DevOps, or automation environments.
- Familiarity with Cloudflare or comparable DNS, edge security, access, or application delivery technologies.
- Familiarity with enterprise networking concepts including TCP/IP, routing, switching, firewalls, wireless.
- Understanding of common Internet-centric applications and protocols.
- Strong problem-solving skills, sound judgment, and the ability to perform root cause analysis and recommend durable solutions.
- Ability to document technical processes clearly and maintain supportable operational procedures.
- Proficiency in applying artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve research, analysis, communication, and workflow efficiency, with sound judgment regarding accuracy, confidentiality, and appropriate use.
- Unquestioned honesty, integrity, transparency, and a respectful, collaborative working style.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Azure IaaS and PaaS solutions.
- Experience implementing Terraform and Bicep in Microsoft Azure environments.
- Experience with Azure DevOps Server, Azure DevOps Services, Git, CI/CD pipelines, or release management.
- Experience evaluating or implementing Generative AI or Agentic AI capabilities in an enterprise technology environment.
- Experience supporting financial services, regulated, security-sensitive, or standards-driven environments, including frameworks such as PCI-DSS, CIS, or NIST SP 800-53.
- Experience with Cloudflare technologies.
- Microsoft AZ-400 or comparable DevOps, cloud, or automation certification.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, telemetry, observability, or alerting platforms.
- Experience supporting backup, disaster recovery, resilience, or high-availability infrastructure practices.
This position may be Contract to Full-Time hire.
NOTE: This role requires in-office, 3 days a week.
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