Azure Platform Engineer

Azure Platform Engineer

Role Summary

We are seeking an Azure Platform Engineer to lead the design and ongoing ownership of the Azure foundation supporting a multi-year municipal modernization program.

This role helps to oversee Azure environment structure, CI/CD standards, and infrastructure-as-code strategy. All cloud resources must be provisioned and managed via IaC to ensure repeatability, auditability, and compliance across the program.

This is a hands-on engineering role with platform ownership responsibilities. Application engineers will rebuild business logic; this role ensures the cloud foundation they deploy into is secure, standardized, auditable, and production-ready.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Environment Ownership

Establish and manage dev, test, and production environments with strict separation

Define secure networking, identity, and role-based access boundaries

Configure VNETs, NSGs, private endpoints, and hybrid connectivity (VPN / ExpressRoute)

Establish standardized patterns for App Services, Azure SQL, storage, and shared services

Define platform standards to be used consistently across consolidated applications

CI/CD & Deployment Standards

Design and maintain standardized CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps

Develop reusable pipeline templates and release patterns

Implement approval gates, rollback strategies, and deployment controls aligned to audit requirements

Ensure consistent deployment practices across application teams

Ensure all infrastructure deployments are executed through CI/CD pipelines using IaC templates (no manual provisioning)

Infrastructure as Code

All infrastructure must be provisioned and maintained via Terraform or Bicep

Establish IaC as the only approved deployment mechanism for cloud resources

Enforce code review, version control, and change traceability for all infrastructure changes

Prevent manual configuration drift across environments

Security, Compliance & Observability

Embed FedRAMP Moderate–aligned controls into platform design

Implement centralized logging, monitoring, and retention policies

Configure Azure Policy and Defender for Cloud guardrails

Implement secrets and certificate management using Azure Key Vault

Establish audit traceability for infrastructure and deployment changes

Support disaster recovery and business continuity planning and testing

Operational Excellence

Support production deployments and release windows

Troubleshoot infrastructure and pipeline issues

Define and maintain platform standards and operational runbooks

Implement cost governance and resource optimization strategies

Required Qualifications

A Bachelors’ degree in a related field, along with at least 5 years' experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or cloud infrastructure

Strong hands-on Azure experience in regulated or audit-sensitive environments

Experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline design

Demonstrated ownership of enterprise-scale Infrastructure-as-Code programs (Terraform), including governance and enforcement of IaC-only deployment standards

Experience embedding compliance and security controls into cloud platforms

Working knowledge of FedRAMP Moderate or comparable compliance frameworks

Preferred

Experience supporting municipal or public sector programs

Experience leading on-premises to Azure migrations

Azure certifications (Administrator, DevOps Engineer, Architect)

Other Info

This position may require infrequent though unlikely travel (to client sites).

Team members must be able to accommodate a working schedule of 8:30am - 5:30p EST Monday through Friday.

No agencies, please: unsolicited agency communications will be blocked, unsolicited candidate profiles will be considered direct applicants.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Alpha will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)

Contractor may be hired as W2 through a Partner agency.

Contract is expected to be approx. 6 months.

Pay Information

There are a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to - skill sets, experience and training, and licensure and certifications. A reasonable estimate of the pay rate is $75 - $90/hr (subject to change).