[Hiring] Senior Azure Platform Engineer @Accuity

Role Description

The Senior Azure Platform Engineer serves as Accuity's internal operational owner for Azure, with accountability for engineering, operating, and improving the Azure application, data, and supporting platform services that Accuity's products depend on. This is a deep, hands-on engineering role at the center of Accuity's cloud environment.

• Accountable for how services behave in production, including availability, resilience, performance, security, and cost.
• Coordinates incident response and restoration, leads root cause analysis and durable remediation for Azure platform incidents.
• Maintains and tests disaster recovery and failover procedures.
• Ensures provisioned capacity matches actual workload as systems change.
• Performs hands-on engineering while coordinating with Accuity's managed service provider.
• Primary technical contributor to Accuity's Azure engineering standards.
• Leads Accuity's move toward repeatable, code-defined provisioning.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field preferred.
• Equivalent professional experience, technical training, or a combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
• Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) strongly preferred; Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) or equivalent architecture experience preferred.
• 7+ years of hands-on software or cloud engineering experience, including production ownership of Azure services.
• Deep hands-on experience administering Azure subscriptions, resource groups, Azure Policy, RBAC, privileged access, managed identities, tagging, and resource governance.
• Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, alerting, dashboards, and operational automation.
• Experience with Azure networking and security controls, including virtual networks, private endpoints, DNS, network security groups, and private connectivity.
• Deep experience with Azure application services, including Azure Functions, APIs, integration services, and storage.
• Experience with Azure database platforms such as SQL Managed Instance, including performance tuning under concurrency and contention.
• Experience with health data standards and services such as FHIR and HL7 preferred.
• Experience with disaster recovery design, failover testing, and production incident response.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code and automated provisioning using Terraform, Bicep, or an equivalent approach.
• Experience managing cloud cost and capacity in a production environment.
• Experience in a regulated or security-sensitive environment, healthcare preferred.

Requirements

• Own availability, performance, and resilience for the Azure services in scope.
• Coordinate technical response and service restoration for Azure incidents affecting production applications.
• Maintain, document, and test disaster recovery and failover procedures for owned services.
• Design and tune for real load characteristics, including concurrency, contention, throughput, and latency under peak conditions.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability.
• Define and maintain availability, recovery, and performance targets for owned services.
• Participate in scheduled incident escalation coverage.
• Own cost visibility for the Azure services in scope.
• Maintain Azure budgets, cost allocation and tagging, anomaly alerts, and recurring spend reporting.
• Right-size provisioned capacity as workloads change.
• Explain cost movement in owned services.
• Recommend service tier, SKU, and architecture changes that reduce cost.
• Support Azure consumption planning and forecasting.
• Serve as the primary technical contributor to Accuity’s Azure engineering standards.
• Apply those standards consistently across the Azure estate.
• Lead Accuity’s move toward repeatable, code-defined provisioning.
• Follow change management for production Azure resources.
• Build and operate Azure services in accordance with HIPAA, HITRUST, and PHI protection requirements.
• Apply least privilege to Azure resource access, identities, and service principals.
• Implement encryption, network isolation, private connectivity, and auditing appropriate to the data handled.
• Document architecture, configuration, dependencies, runbooks, and recovery procedures.
• Cross-train engineers and share operational knowledge.
• Keep documentation current as the environment changes.
• Partner with Data Architecture on the modernization of Accuity’s data platform.
• Work with Engineering, Data Science and AI, Platform Management, and Enterprise IT on shared services.
• Support Microsoft and vendor technical escalations for Azure services.
• Monitor managed service provider responsiveness and service quality.
• Communicate technical risk, options, and tradeoffs clearly.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule.
• Remote work flexibility.
• Professional development opportunities.