Designs and operates internal cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, Azure infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, and infrastructure-as-code using Pulumi. Builds self-service deployment capabilities, secure identity integrations, observability, governance, and FinOps practices. Partners with application, security, IAM, SRE, and developer teams to improve platform reliability, developer experience, delivery speed, and cloud cost management.
When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.
Responsibilities:
Required Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure and platform engineering solutions.
- Develop reusable platform components, deployment templates, and self-service capabilities to streamline application delivery and infrastructure provisioning.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to automate software deployment and infrastructure management.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Pulumi to ensure consistent, repeatable cloud deployments.
- Configure and manage Azure services, including Virtual Networks, Private Endpoints, Azure DNS, Key Vault, Storage Accounts, AKS, APIM, and Azure Front Door.
- Implement Kubernetes deployment standards, container orchestration, scaling, resiliency, and secrets management practices.
- Integrate secure authentication and authorization solutions using Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, OAuth/OIDC, and workload identity federation.
- Establish monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities using Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, and Log Analytics to improve platform reliability.
- Collaborate with application, security, IAM, and SRE teams to troubleshoot platform issues, improve operational performance, and support incident resolution.
Preferred Responsibilities:
- Contribute to platform engineering roadmaps, developer experience improvements, and cloud cost optimization initiatives.
Estimated Hiring Range:
At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $102,400.00 to $179,000.00.This position is also incentive eligible.
Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:
http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers
Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.
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