Cloud Platform Engineer

3Core Systems, Inc

Cloud Platform Engineer managing cloud environments for a global transformation programme. Focus on Infrastructure as Code with Azure and AWS technologies.

Posted 5/27/2026contractRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudDNSGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesPythonTerraformVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The Cloud Platform Engineer is the technical owner of the cloud landing zone estate and the workload subscriptions and accounts that sit on top of it.
The role builds, maintains, and evolves the Infrastructure as Code that provisions every shared platform service, every governance control, and every workload landing zone across the global cloud footprint.
This role sits at the foundation of the global transformation programme.
Move away from manual portal builds and route all change through the repository, the pipeline, and the policy engine.
Operate Azure as the strategic primary platform, while also covering AWS as the secondary platform where workloads remain or where workload teams have selected AWS for technical reasons.
Support workload onboarding including Kubernetes hosted machine learning and optimization platforms with Cosmos DB, Azure Files, Azure Blob Storage, and Application Gateway integration.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
Four to seven years of cloud platform engineering experience for Mid-level. Eight years or more for Senior level, with at least four years’ operating Azure at production scale.
Demonstrable production experience authoring and operating Terraform modules, with familiarity with state management, remote backends, workspaces, and module composition.
Strong working knowledge of Azure landing zones, management groups, RBAC, networking (vNet, vWAN, ExpressRoute, Application Gateway, Private DNS, Private Endpoints), and platform services (Key Vault, Log Analytics, Storage).
Production working experience with AWS landing zone equivalents (AWS Organizations, Control Tower or equivalent), core compute and storage services, networking (VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect), and Identity and Access Management.
Working familiarity with GCP terminology and core constructs is desirable.
Working experience with Azure Policy, Open Policy Agent, or Conftest.
Working knowledge of Azure Kubernetes Service, container registries, and Helm based deployment patterns.
Comfort operating IaC through GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, or equivalent CI / CD platforms.
Proficiency in PowerShell or Python for automation and tooling beyond IaC.
Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator (AZ-104) required. Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) preferred for Senior. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate desirable. Terraform Associate desirable. AZ-400 DevOps Engineer Expert desirable for Senior.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work arrangements
Professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure as CodeTerraformAzureAWSKubernetesPowerShellPythonAzure PolicyOpen Policy AgentHelm

Certifications

Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator (AZ-104)Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)AWS Certified Solutions Architect AssociateTerraform AssociateAZ-400 DevOps Engineer Expert