Staff Platform Engineer
Staff Platform Engineer
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About the Role
We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices to join our engineering team supporting one of the leading financial institutions in this role youll work at the intersection of infrastructure automation and software engineering to help build scalable secure and highly available platforms.
You will lead by example collaborate with cross-functional teams mentor engineers and drive best practices across CI/CD cloud infrastructure and platform reliability.
Key Responsibilities
Design implement and maintain scalable and secure infrastructure on Microsoft Azure using Terraform or Bicep.
Champion and build robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps GitHub Actions or similar.
Collaborate with software and infrastructure teams to standardize platform tooling observability and deployment strategies.
Automate infrastructure provisioning application deployment and system configurations to improve reliability and efficiency.
Provide technical leadership mentoring and hands-on expertise in areas like infrastructure design DevOps and SRE practices.
Drive cloud cost optimization performance tuning and governance in a large-scale Azure environment.
Support security and compliance efforts through automation and policy-as-code.
Advocate for modern software engineering practices and continuous improvement across teams.
Required Skills and Experience
5 years of experience in Platform Engineering DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering roles.
Proven hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure cloud services at scale.
Strong Infrastructure-as-Code skills using Terraform or Bicep (preferably both).
Deep knowledge of CI/CD tools and practices; experience with pipelines release management and automation.
Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language: Python .NET (C#) or TypeScript.
Understanding of containerization (Docker AKS) and modern deployment strategies (blue/green canary etc.).
Familiarity with monitoring logging and observability tools.
Excellent collaboration communication and stakeholder management skills.
Experience working in a regulated enterprise environment ideally in financial services.
Preferred Qualifications
Azure certifications (e.g. AZ-400 AZ-305 or AZ-104) are a strong plus.
Knowledge of GitOps practices and tooling (e.g. Flux ArgoCD).
Prior experience working in a consulting or client-facing engineering role.
Exposure to secure DevOps or DevSecOps principles.
SYNECHRONS DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds race ethnicities religion age marital status gender sexual orientations or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements mentoring internal mobility learning and development programs and more.
All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to the applicants gender gender identity sexual orientation race ethnicity disabled or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
