Azure - Cloud Platform Engineer, Officer

**Job Description:** Charles River Development is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join its Cloud Platform Engineering team with a primary focus on Azure Policy automation, policy-as-code, and enterprise cloud governance. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously improving automated policy guardrails across Azure management groups, subscriptions, and platform services to support secure, compliant, and scalable cloud delivery. Working closely with engineering teams, product management, and business stakeholders, the Senior Cloud Engineer will lead the automation of policy definitions, initiatives, assignments, exemptions, remediation patterns, and compliance validation processes within a modern CI/CD operating model.

**Key Responsibilities - Senior Cloud Engineer:**

• Design, implement, and automate Azure Policy definitions, initiatives, assignments, exemptions, and remediation workflows across enterprise Azure environments.
• Build and maintain policy-as-code solutions using source control, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tooling such as Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Bicep, or equivalent engineering patterns.
• Establish and evolve governance guardrails at management group and subscription scope to enforce security, compliance, configuration, and operational standards at scale.
• Integrate Azure Policy validation into engineering delivery workflows so policy compliance is tested early and continuously throughout platform and application deployment processes.
• Partner with engineering and platform teams to define policy requirements, manage exceptions responsibly, and implement durable remediation and compliance improvement strategies.
• Monitor policy effectiveness, investigate non-compliance trends, troubleshoot complex governance issues, and improve policy coverage, reliability, and maintainability over time.
• Contribute to broader cloud platform engineering priorities including infrastructure automation, security engineering, observability, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

**What We Value**

• An automation-first mindset and a commitment to building repeatable, maintainable solutions
• Strong technical depth, sound analytical judgment, and a practical approach to solving complex problems
• A disciplined focus on security, reliability, operational excellence, and continuous improvement
• Effective communication, collaboration, and the ability to influence outcomes across engineering and business stakeholders
• The ability to work effectively in agile delivery environments with shared ownership and iterative improvement

**Required Qualifications**

• 10+ years of experience in cloud engineering, cloud platform operations, cloud governance, or cloud security engineering, including substantial hands-on experience in Azure environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Policy, including policy definition authoring, initiative design, assignment management, exemptions, remediation tasks, and compliance evaluation in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating Azure Policy as Code solutions using source control, automated deployment pipelines, and testing or validation workflows.
• Strong expertise with infrastructure as code, automation, and scripting using tools such as Terraform, PowerShell, Python, Bicep, and CI/CD platforms.
• Experience implementing governance guardrails across management groups, subscriptions, and shared platform services to support security, compliance, and operational standards at scale.
• Strong understanding of cloud security fundamentals, including access control, data protection, configuration governance, vulnerability reduction, and monitoring.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues, identify root causes, and implement durable improvements that enhance governance outcomes, reliability, and maintainability.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills, with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional and distributed teams.

**Preferred Qualifications**

• Experience building or supporting shared cloud platforms, landing zones, or platform engineering capabilities at scale.
• Knowledge of Azure networking, hybrid connectivity, private access patterns, and secure service-to-service communication.
• Experience with observability, operational tooling, and cloud reliability practices within complex enterprise environments.
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