Senior Azure Platform Engineer

About the role

A world-leading reinsurance and risk management company is looking for a Senior Azure Platform Engineer to join its Big Data Analytics Platform (BDAP) team. The role focuses on building and operating secure, scalable and maintainable Azure platform capabilities in an enterprise environment, with a focus on infrastructure built through code and a reliable Data & Analytics platform.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and operate enterprise-grade Azure platform components using Terraform, PowerShell and Azure DevOps.
• Build and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructure supporting enterprise Data & Analytics workloads.
• Provision, configure, secure and integrate Azure Databricks and Azure Data Lake Storage.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, applying software engineering principles such as automated testing, code reviews, version management and reusable design.
• Design and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines using YAML, reusable templates, environments and approval mechanisms.
• Maintain Azure networking concepts including VNets, hub-and-spoke architectures, private endpoints and Network Security Groups.
• Integrate Azure services with Microsoft Entra ID using managed identities, service principals, app registrations and role assignments.
• Take end-to-end ownership of platform changes, from implementation and testing through CI/CD, deployment, release and operational handover.
• Troubleshoot complex platform and infrastructure issues and ensure solutions meet security, compliance, reliability and maintainability requirements.
• Provide knowledge transfer and technical support to other DevOps teams, Second Level Operations and Service Desk teams, and maintain technical documentation.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Informatics or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience engineering and operating enterprise cloud platforms, with strong Microsoft Azure experience.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform.
• Advanced scripting with PowerShell and/or Python, including automated testing, code reviews and artifact management.
• Strong understanding of Azure networking and Microsoft Entra ID integration.
• Fluent spoken and written English; German is highly appreciated.
• Nice to have: experience with Azure AI Search, Cosmos DB and Data Factory, observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights, and previous work in regulated enterprise environments, ideally in insurance/reinsurance.