Azure Platform & Infrastructure Lead
Location: Onsite role - Livermore, CA (Bay Area) – onsite 2–3 days per week.
Overview
We need 1 senior onshore Azure Platform & Infrastructure Lead to build, secure and run the infrastructure behind our enterprise AI services. This person will also lead our existing Ops/SRE team, which works across onshore and offshore.
What they'll do
Lead the Ops/SRE team. Set priorities, assign work, coach engineers, and run the daily onshore/offshore hand-off.
Set up and manage the Azure infrastructure for AI services: networking, identity, security and compute.
Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code and deployment pipelines for consistent Dev, QA and Prod environments.
Own platform reliability: monitoring, alerting, capacity and quota planning, cost control, and disaster recovery.
Own the operating model: incident and problem management, root cause analysis, SLAs, runbooks and SOPs.
Act as the onsite technical contact for major incidents, security and architecture reviews, and IT and vendor coordination.
Must have
10+ years in cloud infrastructure or platform engineering, with 5+ years on Azure.
2+ years leading an Ops, SRE or platform team, ideally across onshore and offshore.
Azure networking and security: VNets, private endpoints, DNS, firewalls and network security groups, Entra ID / managed identities, RBAC and Key Vault.
Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or Bicep) and CI/CD (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
Containers and compute: AKS, App Service or Container Apps, Functions.
Experience hosting and operating Azure AI services: Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry, AI Search, model deployments, quotas and throttling.
Observability: Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights. Experience with an SRE agent or AIOps is a plus.
Nice to have
Azure certifications; experience connecting to SaaS or data platforms such as Fabric, Databricks or Snowflake.
Mandatory Skills - 1) 10+ yrs cloud infrastructure/platform engineering, 5+ yrs on Azure – networking & security (VNets, private endpoints, Entra ID, RBAC, Key Vault); 2) 2+ yrs leading an Ops/SRE or platform team, ideally onshore/offshore; 3) Hosting and operating Azure AI services (Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry, AI Search, model deployments, quotas)
Nice to Have Skills - Azure certifications; SRE agent / AIOps; integration with Fabric, Databricks or Snowflake
