Tech Lead: Platform Engineering

Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Understand the E2E high level architecture (big picture).

• Translate the HLD (high level design) into the LLD (low level design) in collaboration with architects and own the LLD.

• Technical direction for the product area.

• Contribute to coordinating cross team dependencies and integration points.

Delivery & Execution Excellence

• Contribute to the feature definition and review.

• Generate concepts and facilitate concept selection.

• Breaking down complex features into actionable tasks.

• Helping with estimation and sprint planning.

• Addressing technical impediments.

• Own production readiness (incl. non-functional requirements).

Quality, Governance & Security

• Ensuring code quality.

• Conducting meaningful code reviews and ensuring adherence to DoR (Definition of Ready) / DoD (Definition of Done) criteria.

• Ensure adherence to applicable standards, policies, and practices (e.g. DevSecOps).

Incident Response

• Leading incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and post-mortems

Mentorship & Team Growth

• Mentoring team members.

• Documenting key design decisions.

• Participate in interviews and hiring decisions.

• Promoting engineering best practices and driving continuous improvement.

Collaboration & Communication

• Act as the primary technical point of contact across Product, Architecture, and Platform teams.

• Clearly communicate technical decisions and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, or related field.

• 10+ years in cloud / DevOps / platform engineering, with at least 5+ years owning IaC and CI/CD foundations for multiple teams (or equivalent demonstrated ownership/impact).

• Strong hands-on Azure platform engineering background, with proven ability to design and evolve shared platform capabilities that enable multiple dev/product teams.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) lifecycle expertise: able to design, review, and maintain IaC repositories and patterns as a productized capability for others (not “one-off scripts”).

• Containerization: Experience designing, deploying, and operating containerized applications using Azure Kubernetes Services, Container Apps, Container Instances.

• CI/CD leadership: demonstrated experience designing and maintaining pipelines (validation, approvals, promotion) and embedding them into the development lifecycle.

• Experience with security automation in the DevSecOps lifecycle (e.g., vulnerability scanning / secrets-related automation) as part of the platform pipeline/toolchain.

• Azure DevOps & Git workflows: strong practical experience with branching, pull requests, and pipeline-based validation/approval gates (e.g., plan/validate then approval then apply).

• Ability to drive developer enablement: build reusable templates/tooling and improve developer experience through automation and standardization.

• Solid understanding of governance and compliance-by-design for cloud foundations (standards, policies, tagging/naming conventions as guardrails).

• Understanding of compliance and security frameworks and standards, e.g. SOX, ISO 27001.

• Working knowledge of Agile development practices.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a team.

• Fluency in English (spoken and written).

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Ability to adjust quickly to changing assignments, and priorities.

Assets

• Experience using AI assisted coding tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot) responsibly, with full accountability for code quality, security, and compliance.

• Practical exposure to monitoring/observability enablement (platform-level logging/metrics/tracing patterns and tooling integration).

• Understanding of cloud core (hub) services and platform services that are consumed by product teams (i.e., thinking in reusable building blocks).

• Familiarity with cost optimization / FinOps mechanics as they relate to platform foundations and guardrails.