Summary
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Take ownership of enterprise cloud platform engineering across Azure infrastructure, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, networking, identity, security, reliability, and optimization. Design and maintain cloud platforms, operate managed Kubernetes environments, implement repeatable infrastructure through IaC, and support hybrid cloud architectures. This is a hands-on senior role focused on production-grade infrastructure and operational excellence.
Highlights
Hands-on senior platform engineering role with ownership across Azure infrastructure, Kubernetes, security, automation, networking, reliability, and cloud optimization. Permanent full-time employment and a hybrid work model are explicitly offered.
Description
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – Azure
Location: Łódź, Poland
Work Model: Hybrid
Employment Type: Permanent / Full-time
We are looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – Azure to join an enterprise technology environment and take ownership of Azure platform engineering, infrastructure, reliability, security, automation, and cloud optimisation.
This is a hands-on platform engineering role for someone with strong production experience across Azure infrastructure, AKS/Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, Azure DevOps, networking, identity, and hybrid cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities
Design, implement and maintain Microsoft Azure cloud platform solutions.Manage and troubleshoot Azure infrastructure including networking, identity, compute, storage and cloud-native services.Deploy and manage Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments, including networking, storage, scaling and security.Implement and maintain Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and declarative provisioning.Work with Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates or equivalent IaC technologies.Support containerised workloads and microservices architectures within Azure.Design and maintain highly available, scalable and resilient cloud environments.Support hybrid cloud architectures, integrating on-premises infrastructure with Azure.Implement automation, monitoring, logging and observability solutions.Troubleshoot platform, infrastructure and Kubernetes-related issues.Contribute to cloud governance, standards, guardrails and platform standardisation.Support disaster recovery, backup, business continuity and high-availability strategies.Optimise Azure environments for performance, scalability and cost efficiency through rightsizing and autoscaling.Contribute to FinOps and cloud cost optimisation initiatives.Work closely with Cloud Architects, DevSecOps and Software Engineering teams.Provide technical guidance and support to other engineers where required.Contribute to Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) initiatives and enterprise cloud best practices.
Essential Experience
Strong professional experience in Azure Cloud Engineering / Platform Engineering within an enterprise environment.Extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.Strong experience with:Azure NetworkingAzure ComputeAzure StorageMicrosoft Entra ID / Azure Identity & RBACAzure Monitor / Log AnalyticsAzure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Strong Kubernetes knowledge and production experience.Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, particularly Terraform, Bicep or ARM.Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD automation.Experience supporting hybrid cloud environments and on-premises-to-Azure integration.Understanding of cloud security, governance, reliability and enterprise architecture standards.Experience with cloud automation, monitoring, troubleshooting and operational support.Good understanding of high availability, disaster recovery and cloud resiliency.Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
Certifications
The following certifications are highly relevant to this role:
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator AssociateMicrosoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer ExpertCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent Kubernetes certification
Ideal Candidate
We are particularly interested in candidates who combine:
Azure Platform Engineering + Terraform/IaC + AKS/Kubernetes + Azure DevOps + Azure Networking + Identity + Hybrid Cloud + Enterprise Governance
This is not a pure Azure Developer or CI/CD-focused DevOps role.
Candidates should have strong hands-on ownership of Azure infrastructure and platform services in production environments.
Interested?
If you have strong hands-on Azure Platform Engineering experience and meet the key requirements above, please share your updated CV to yesu.antony@benchtalentcloud.com.
