Azure Platform Engineer

Job Summary

Azure Platform Engineer

Mandatory Experience

• 7+ years Azure Platform Engineering experience

• 3+ years supporting production AKS environments

• Experience working in enterprise hub-spoke Azure Landing Zones

• Strong networking, API management, identity, and cloud security expertise

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BCG Platform Technology Stack

Edge & API Layer

• Azure Front Door

• Azure Application Gateway (WAF)

• Azure API Management (APIM)

• API routing and path-based routing

• SSL/TLS certificate management

• DNS configuration and troubleshooting

• API publishing and backend integrations

Required Knowledge

• Front Door → Application Gateway → APIM → AKS architecture

• Public ingress with private backend services

• Path-based routing configuration

• Health probes and backend pools

• APIM networking and private connectivity

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Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Mandatory Skills

• AKS Cluster Administration

• AKS Networking

• Ingress Controllers

• Internal Load Balancers

• Private AKS Clusters

• Node Pools

• Autoscaling

• Kubernetes Security

• Secrets Management

• Container Networking

Must Understand

• Internal LoadBalancer services

• Private endpoint exposure

• Backend API publishing through APIM

• Health endpoints

• Kubernetes troubleshooting

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Azure Networking

Mandatory Skills

• VNet Design

• Hub-Spoke Architecture

• VNet Peering

• Route Tables (UDR)

• NSG

• Azure Firewall

• Private DNS Zones

• Private Endpoints

• Service Endpoints

Expected Experience

• Working with enterprise hub VNets

• Connectivity through centralized firewall environments

• Shared services networking

• Routing validation and troubleshooting

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Azure Data Services

Databricks Platform

• Databricks Workspace Administration

• Unity Catalog

• Cluster Policies

• Secret Scopes

• Access Control Management

• Databricks Networking

• Delta Lake

• Databricks Monitoring

Azure Data Services

• Azure Data Factory (ADF)

• Azure Synapse Analytics

• Event Hub

• Cosmos DB

• ADLS Gen2

• Azure Database for PostgreSQL

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DevOps & CI/CD

• Azure DevOps

• GitHub Enterprise

• GitHub Actions

• Azure DevOps Pipelines

• Release Management

• Branching Strategies

• CI/CD Automation

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Governance & Operations

• Cost Management & Optimization

• Tagging Strategy

• Backup & Disaster Recovery

• High Availability Architecture

• Cloud Governance Framework

• Incident & Problem Management

• Production Support

Preferred Certifications

• AZ-104 Azure Administrator

• AZ-305 Azure Solutions Architect

• AZ-400 Azure DevOps Engineer

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)