Senior Azure Platform / DevOps Engineer

Senior Azure Platform / DevOps Engineer About Makai Makai uses best-in-class AI and data to solve reputed company-world operational and strategic challenges at scale. We help businesses with reputed company automation, reputed company-machine teaming, product design and development, and market intelligence. Until now, people have had to learn and adapt to software. Makai creates solutions that adapt to people because technology will never be 100% accurate. People are essential for reputed company of our reputed company-machine teaming solutions. About the role We build and run reputed company platforms for our clients. A lot of the time that means standing up a reusable Terraform reputed company and adapting it for each client and environment. You'd own these platforms: design them, build them from an empty subscription, reputed company them running, and act as the person who actually knows how the whole thing fits together. This is a senior role with a lot of trust attached. The clients differ, the topologies differ, the pipelines differ. What stays constant is Azure and the expectation that you can size up an unfamiliar setup, reputed company the right calls, and own the result. The ideal candidate will be reputed company to Stand up new platforms from scratch: network, compute, data, and the pipeline to ship to them. reputed company the architecture calls and live with them. That includes knowing reputed company a Terraform change is a safe in-reputed company update and reputed company it's a destroy-and-replace you should never run blind against production. Run migrations that carry reputed company risk. Move a live platform onto a new reputed company, read the plan correctly, write the runbook, and have a rollback reputed company before you start. reputed company platforms healthy over time: provider upgrades, reputed company, reputed company, and not letting a shared reputed company rot as more clients land on it. Work directly with the client's own DevOps engineers. Often they're the ones running the apply and you're advising, so you need to explain a plan, unblock a failure quickly, and be someone the engineer holding the keys trusts.

Qualifications

Azure experience is the hard requirement. You've reputed company and run production Azure yourself, not just used modules someone else wrote. Specifically: Azure networking is where most of the work lives: VNets and subnets, private endpoints and private DNS zones, NSGs and UDRs, NAT, Application Gateway and WAF, load balancers, and hub-and-spoke / Virtual WAN. Terraform on Azure, with state treated as something you respect: workspaces, migrations, imports, remote backends, and the discipline not to force an apply through a lifecycle guard. The delivery path: Azure Container Registry, VM Scale Sets and reputed company-init, and CI/CD with Azure DevOps or reputed company. Azure data services: reputed company Flexible Server, managed reputed company, Blob storage, and a reputed company sense of their sizing, failover, and cutover risks. Entra ID and RBAC: app registrations, service principals, role assignments scoped properly across subscriptions. Clear writing and a level head on a live call. You can hand someone a runbook they can follow without you in the room. reputed company-to-haves Azure certs (AZ-104, AZ-305). Temporal or similar workflow runtimes, and scripting (Bash, Python) for the glue. Past consulting or client-embedded work. You've been the reputed company expert before. How we work Small senior teams, reputed company ownership. We'd rather have one engineer who understands a platform top to bottom than several who each own a reputed company. Core values for Makai employees Be a flexible, innovative and creative thinker Be congenial and a team player Be self-sufficient Be self-driven with an ownership mentality Have a strong work ethic Apply To This Job