Azure Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Required Skills & Experience

• Mastery-level Terraform and Terragrunt for Infrastructure-as-Code, including authoring reusable modules and managing infrastructure at scale.

• Hands-on experience with TFLint and IaC quality tooling—linting, validation, automated testing, and enforcing standards across a codebase.

• Deep Azure expertise across IaaS and PaaS services and the surrounding ecosystem.

• Proven track record designing standardized, reusable module libraries and opinionated IaC patterns that other teams build on.

• Strong scripting and automation skills in PowerShell, Python, and Bash.

• Solid experience with CI/CD and GitOps workflows for infrastructure delivery.

• Working knowledge of identity, access, and authentication using Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) and RBAC.

• A genuine platform-engineering mindset—you care about developer experience and building safe, easy self-service for others.

• Ability to design secure, scalable, and resilient automation solutions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or integrating MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers, or otherwise exposing tools and data to AI coding assistants.

• Familiarity with Claude Code and/or GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted development workflows, including configuring agent skills, context, or guardrails.

• Hands-on experience with Port.io or another Internal Developer Portal (e.g., Backstage).

• Experience automating change management with ServiceNow or similar ITSM platforms.

• Policy-as-code experience (e.g., OPA/Conftest, Sentinel, Azure Policy) and IaC security scanning (Checkov, tfsec/Trivy).

• Infrastructure testing experience (e.g., Terratest, native Terraform tests).

• Familiarity with Kubernetes / AKS and container orchestration.

• Experience with configuration management and orchestration tooling (e.g., Ansible).

• Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and incident-response practices.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across multiple teams.