Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. American Specialty Health Incorporated (ASH) is seeking a Sr Platform Engineer I for its Platform Engineering and DevOps organization. The role implements and helps design secure, scalable cloud platform capabilities, supports developer self-service and software delivery, and contributes to cloud reliability, automation, and engineering standards.

Responsibilities

• Implement and contribute to the design of platform environments across cloud compute, storage, networking, and runtime layers that leverage IaaS and PaaS products on the Azure public cloud
• Deploy and operate containerized platform-native runtime services
• Implement infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Develop, maintain, and enhance reusable platform components and automation frameworks based on established platform patterns and standards
• Implement security controls and policy enforcement defined by platform standards
• Implement identity, access, and secrets management patterns
• Enable compliance and governance through automated guardrails
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions
• Implement and support redundant, fault tolerant, and automated recovery mechanisms that leverage zonal and multi-region cloud tenancy patterns
• Monitor platform performance and contribute to cost optimization efforts
• Enable consistent application deployment patterns and workflows
• Support, build, and enhance developer tooling and CI/CD platform capabilities
• Implement and maintain self-service templates and contribute to the evolution of golden paths
• Contribute to abstraction layers and APIs for infrastructure and platform services
• Troubleshoot platform and infrastructure issues
• Perform root cause analysis
• Collaborate with team members and share knowledge
• Implement and support messaging, eventing, and API capabilities
• Enable event-driven and asynchronous communication patterns across systems
• Utilize and contribute to reusable integration patterns for application and platform services
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience required
• If equivalent experience, High School Diploma required
• 3 years experience in cloud platform engineering, software engineering, systems engineering or DevOps roles; with hands-on experience implementing and supporting scalable, distributed systems across IaaS, PaaS, AI, and container-based environments required
• Experience designing and implementing infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated platform provisioning, with proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language required
• Experience working within and contributing to DevOps/DevSecOps practices, including collaboration across development, security, and operations teams required
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex systems, improve platform reliability, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives required
• Working knowledge of identity and access management concepts and securing platform resources in cloud environments required
• Experience implementing or supporting platform observability, including logging, monitoring, and performance diagnostics required
• Strong background in creating secure cloud architectures and implementation for Internet-facing applications
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, influencing, collaboration and negotiation skills required
• Demonstrated ability to interact in a positive, respectful manner and establish and maintain cooperative working relationships
• Ability to display excellent customer service to meet the needs and expectations of both internal and external customers
• Excellent listening and interpersonal communication skills to identify critical core competencies based on success factors and organizational environment
• Ability to effectively organize, prioritize, multi-task and manage time
• Demonstrated accuracy and productivity in a changing environment with constant interruptions
• Demonstrated ability to analyze information, problems, issues, situations, and procedures to develop effective solutions
• Ability to exercise strict confidentiality in all matters
• Exposure to supporting application or infrastructure modernization efforts, including migration from on-premises to cloud environments preferred
• Exposure to AI/ML platform services preferred
• Experience supporting or enabling micro services-based architectures and modern application deployment patterns, including asynchronous system to system integration using queuing and messaging platforms preferred
• Exposure to platform security and compliance controls preferred
• Exposure to developer platform or self-service enablement preferred
• Exposure to cost optimization or resource efficiency practices preferred
• Experience with Microsoft Azure IaaS and PaaS offering preferred
• Microsoft Azure certifications such as Azure Administrator, Developer, or Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer within 1-1/2 Yrs preferred
• Microsoft Azure certifications, Azure AI Engineer Associate, AI Fundamentals within 1-1/2 Yrs preferred

Benefits

• Remote position; trained remotely, with company-provided technology equipment for working from home.

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