We are seeking a Senior Azure Platform / DevOps Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for building and running cloud platforms for our clients, designing and maintaining these platforms from an empty subscription to ensuring they remain healthy over time.
About Makai
Makai uses best-in-class AI and data to solve real-world operational and strategic challenges at scale. We help businesses with enterprise automation, human-machine teaming, product design and development, and market intelligence. Our solutions adapt to people because technology will never be 100% accurate, and people are essential for all of our human-machine teaming solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Stand up new platforms from scratch: network, compute, data, and the pipeline to ship to them.
Make architecture calls and live with them, knowing when a Terraform change is a safe in-place update and when it's a destroy-and-replace.
Run migrations that carry real risk, move a live platform onto a new foundation, read the plan correctly, write the runbook, and have a rollback ready before you start.
Keep platforms healthy over time: provider upgrades, drift, security, and not letting a shared foundation rot as more clients land on it.
Work directly with the client's own DevOps engineers, explain plans, unblock failures quickly, and be someone the engineer holding the keys trusts.
Required Qualifications
Azure experience is a hard requirement. You've built and run production Azure yourself, not just used modules someone else wrote.
Azure networking: 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 cloud-init, and CI/CD with Azure DevOps or GitHub.
Azure data services: Postgres Flexible Server, managed Redis, Blob storage, and a real 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.
Nice-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 outside expert before.
How we work
Small senior teams, real ownership. We'd rather have one engineer who understands a platform top to bottom than several who each own a slice.
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