makai-labs - Senior Azure Platform / DevOps Engineer

• Stand up new platforms from scratch: network, compute, data, and the pipeline to ship to them. • Make the architecture calls and live with them. That includes knowing when a Terraform change is a safe in-place update and when it's a destroy-and-replace you should never run blind against production. • 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. Often they're the ones running the apply and you're advising, so you need to explain a plan, unblock a failure quickly, and be someone the engineer holding the keys trusts. • Azure experience is the hard requirement. You've built and run production Azure yourself, not just used modules someone else wrote. Specifically: • Azure networking is where most of the work lives: 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. • 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. • 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. • CORE VALUES FOR MAKAI EMPLOYEES • Be a flexible, innovative and creative thinker • Be congenial and a team player • Be self-sufficient • Be self-driven with an ownership mentality • Have a strong work ethic