Platform Engineer, Azure Cloud

Navy Federal Credit Union

Platform Engineer designing, building, and operating shared platform capabilities for application teams at Navy Federal. Focus on operational ownership, automation, and platform reliability.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeVienna • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $96,100 - $123,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloudDNSDockerGrafanaJenkinsKafkaKubernetesLinuxNGINXPrometheusRedisSplunkTCP/IPTerraformVault

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Operate and maintain shared platform services (e.g., Kubernetes clusters, API runtimes, ingress, service mesh, messaging/caching layers).
Monitor platform health using logging, metrics, and dashboards; identify and remediate reliability issues proactively.
Participate in production support, on‑call rotations, and incident response, following defined runbooks and escalation paths.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and reusable templates for application teams.
Automate routine operational tasks (deployments, upgrades, certificate rotation, service account management).
Support onboarding of new services/APIs onto the platform.
Work with cloud services (primarily Azure) including networking, IAM, secrets management, and managed PaaS offerings.
Support platform upgrades and compatibility testing (e.g., Kubernetes, ingress, API gateways, runtime components).
Collaborate with network, security, and SRE teams on infrastructure changes.
Implement and maintain security controls such as TLS/certificates, secrets, RBAC, vulnerability remediation, and audit evidence.
Support compliance, risk assessments, and audit requests with accurate documentation.
Follow platform governance standards and change‑management processes.
Partner with application/API teams to troubleshoot platform issues and improve developer experience.

Requirements

What you’ll need

2+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure roles.
Proven experience supporting production systems at scale.
Exposure to regulated or enterprise environments is a plus.
Experience with Containers & Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/AKS).
Experience with CI/CD & Automation (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Terraform, Helm).
Strong working knowledge of Azure Cloud.
Experience with Linux & Networking such as TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, load balancing, troubleshooting in Linux environments.
Experience with API gateways / ingress (NGINX, Istio, Envoy, cloud-native gateways).
Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, App Insights, ELK/Splunk).
Experience with caching or messaging systems (e.g., Redis, Hazelcast, Kafka).
Experience with certificate and secrets management (Vault, cloud key vaults, Venafi, etc.).
Experience with vulnerability scanning and remediation workflows.
Experience with incident, problem, and change management practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Retirement plans
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesAPI managementCI/CDInfrastructure automationContainersAzureLinuxNetworkingObservabilityVulnerability scanning

Soft Skills

CollaborationProblem-solvingProactive monitoringIncident responseDocumentation