Azure Platform Engineer

A leading technology consulting group is partnering with a major financial services organization to modernize and scale its data platform. This role centers on architecting and optimizing a robust Azure-based Lakehouse environment, with Databricks as a foundational component. As a platform engineer, you'll drive cloud infrastructure design, containerized microservices enablement, and end-to-end observability across critical data systems used by risk, compliance, and analytics teams.

You’ll work hands-on with Azure Databricks, Apache Spark, and Delta Lake to build and manage large-scale data pipelines. This includes owning the setup of secure, production-grade Azure infrastructure—covering AKS, Key Vault, Networking, and Storage—while championing automation and DevOps practices with Terraform, ARM templates, and CI/CD tooling like GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps. This is a high-impact role ideal for engineers with deep platform experience who want to drive infrastructure excellence within a highly regulated domain.

Required Skills & Experience

• Expert-level hands-on experience with Azure Databricks, including Delta Lake and Apache Spark in enterprise-scale deployments

• In-depth knowledge of Azure infrastructure services: AKS, Container Registries, Key Vault, Networking, and Resource Manager

• Proven track record building and operating microservices-based architectures and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code with tools like Terraform and ARM

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Event Grid) and awareness of data mesh and distributed ownership principles

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, or Datadog

• Exposure to adjacent technologies like MongoDB Atlas and Confluent Cloud Kafka in a cloud-native environment

Daily Responsibilities

• Hands-On Engineering: 70%

• Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 30%
  
  Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Canada on a full-time basis now and in the future.
  
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