Cloud Platform Engineer

Role: Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Warren NJ / Remote

Experience: 13 - 16 Years

Key Responsibilities
Design and build integrations between internal developer tools CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure.
Design implement and manage platform tooling and integrations to improve automation developer self-service and the overall developer experience.
Collaborate closely with the Cloud Infrastructure team - understand their IaC and Azure implementations to connect platform systems seamlessly.
Develop automation and orchestration logic (e.g. workflows APIs event-driven processes) to unify provisioning deployments and environment management.
Enhance CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions) to support consistent and automated delivery patterns.
Work with engineering teams to define golden paths and reusable service templates that promote consistency and speed.
Contribute to developer experience (DX) initiatives ensuring the platform supports efficient onboarding observability and security guardrails.
Collaborate cross-functionally with SRE Cloud and Software teams to evolve the internal platform as a product.

Required Skills & Experience
5 years of experience in Platform Engineering DevOps or Software Engineering roles.
Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles (Terraform Pulumi Bicep etc.) and how to integrate with them.
Hands-on experience with at least one IDP or platform orchestration tool - e.g. Port Humanitec Backstage or Spacelift.
Solid understanding of CI/CD systems such as Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
Working knowledge of Azure architecture and services (e.g. AKS ACR App Services networking RBAC) sufficient to integrate platform tools with infrastructure.
Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language (Python TypeScript Go or similar).
Strong collaboration and communication skills - able to work with both developers and infrastructure engineers.

Nice-to-Have
Experience developing Backstage plugins or Port integrations.
Familiarity with policy-as-code tools (OPA Sentinel).
Experience with GitOps patterns and service templates.
Exposure to observability and incident automation tooling.
Prior experience building or maintaining internal developer platforms at scale.