Job Detail: Sr. Azure Platform Engineer
Job Order #
13921
| Post Date |
Job Tile |
Location |
Category |
| 9/15/2026 |
Sr. Azure Platform Engineer |
Houston - Texas |
Information Technology |
Description:
A well-established and growing company is expanding its cloud engineering team to help standardize and mature its Microsoft Azure footprint. This hands-on role owns Azure administration, infrastructure automation, and CI/CD reliability while partnering closely with infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, and application teams.
Responsibilities
- Administer and support Azure subscriptions and cloud-hosted environments across the organization
- Standardize resource configurations to align with governance, naming, tagging, and access policies
- Provision and modify infrastructure using Terraform, maintaining reusable and version-controlled configurations
- Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, troubleshooting deployment failures and recommending reliability upgrades
- Deploy and manage serverless functions, App Service instances, and containerized application hosting
- Support integration and data platforms including Databricks along with managed database, storage, and secrets services
- Maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities using native cloud tooling
- Troubleshoot platform and deployment issues, providing escalation support for critical incidents
- Partner with security teams to remediate cloud posture findings and implement hardening controls
- Implement DNS and routing configurations, along with virtual network and private endpoint setup, in coordination with network engineering
- Review cloud spend and utilization to identify cost optimization opportunities
- Contribute platform engineering input during architecture and solution design reviews
- Maintain documentation covering standards, deployment procedures, and operational runbooks
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years in cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps
- Strong hands-on production experience administering Microsoft Azure services
- Demonstrated experience deploying infrastructure through Terraform in a collaborative engineering setting
- Working knowledge of governance tools including policy enforcement and access control frameworks
- Solid grounding in cloud networking fundamentals
- Scripting ability in Bash, Python, or similar languages
- Strong documentation, analytical, and cross-functional communication skills
- Relevant Azure or infrastructure-as-code certifications are a plus
Do not apply unless you are authorized to work in the United States for any employer as client company cannot sponsor or transfer visas at this time.
Walker Elliott is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
For additional information, please email your resume to resumes@walker-elliott.com or apply online.
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