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The Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer joins the 3rd Party Ads Solutions and Data Management Platforms team to build a foundational platform for AI-driven advertising. This role focuses on creating secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure while improving the developer experience through automation. You will build and maintain reusable Terraform and CDKTF/CDKTN modules, develop AI-driven interfaces and MCP server integrations, and design scalable CI/CD pipelines. Key responsibilities include consulting on cloud architecture, driving security compliance remediation, and managing observability tools like Grafana and Prometheus. The role requires proficiency in languages such as C#, Java, or Python, along with expertise in Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, and Kusto. You will solve complex problems regarding global system availability, cost optimization, and automated governance within a compliance-driven environment.
Build and maintain secure, reusable Terraform and CDKTF/CDKTN modules to standardize Azure infrastructure deployments.
Consult with engineering teams to design cloud architectures optimized for cost, security, and platform standards.
Develop automation and AI-driven interfaces to improve internal usability and developer productivity.
Build and maintain AI agents and MCP server integrations as production platform components with full CI/CD.
Drive security and compliance remediation across multiple repositories using automated patterns and reusable tools.
Own shared observability and deployment tooling, including managed Grafana and alert quality.
Design and implement scalable CI/CD pipelines and operational tooling for the platform.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
4+ years of experience in Microsoft Azure and Terraform, or experience with AWS or GCP and a solid interest in Azure (preferred).
4+ years of experience in programming or scripting with modern software development practices, including CI/CD pipelines (preferred).
6+ years of experience deploying and managing Azure infrastructure, especially globally distributed and highly available systems (preferred).
Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and at least one programmatic IaC framework such as CDKTF, CDKTN, Pulumi, or Bicep (preferred).
Experience managing systems at scale—globally distributed, highly available, and real-time, 24/7 environments (preferred).
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