Job Description
About You
You are a Senior Azure DevOps & Platform Engineer with deep hands-on experience building secure Azure platforms and delivering infrastructure and applications through Terraform and CI/CD. You combine Azure Platform Engineering (landing zones, networking, identity, security, governance) with strong DevOps engineering.
You thrive in environments where ownership, scalability, and continuous improvement are highly valued. You are adaptable, detail-oriented, and capable of providing technical leadership and operational guidance to support cloud transformation initiatives and enterprise DevOps practices.
Note:
This role operates under a
contractor model
and requires availability to work in the
U.S. Central Time Zone (CT)
.
You Bring to Applaudo the Following Competencies:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field is desired, or equivalent professional experience.
9+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps and cloud environments.




Strong experience designing and implementing Azure tenant platforms aligned with
Microsoft CAF (Cloud Adoption Framework)
.
Expertise building and maintaining
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
solutions using Terraform.
Experience implementing
Azure landing zones
for application and workload migrations.
Experience with Azure networking: hub-spoke topology, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway/ExpressRoute, private endpoints with Private DNS Zones, NSGs, and route tables.
Hands-on experience with
Terraform state management, imports, drift detection and reconciliation, refactoring live infrastructure (e.g., moved blocks), and secret management with Azure Key Vault, including rotation.
Strong automation and scripting skills using PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
Knowledge of Azure identity and security: Managed Identities, workload identity federation (OIDC), least-privilege RBAC, and PIM.
Hands-on experience with Azure compute services such as AKS, Container Apps, App Service, and Fu

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