Azure Platform Engineer – Azure Landing Zones, Terraform, Ansible & DevOps

Location: 100% Remote

We are seeking a hands-on Azure Platform Engineer responsible for implementing, automating, and operating Azure Landing Zone services. The engineer will build and maintain cloud platform capabilities, automate governance controls, monitor compliance exceptions, and support the onboarding of acquired organizations into the enterprise Azure workplace.

The ideal candidate must possess robust Azure and automation experience with Terraform, Ansible, Azure-native services, and DevOps practices.

Key Responsibilities

Azure Platform Deployment
Deploy and manage Azure infrastructure using Terraform.
Implement enterprise Landing Zone standards and controls.
Provision subscriptions, networking, monitoring, and governance components.

Infrastructure Automation
Develop and maintain Terraform modules.
Create automation workflows using:
Ansible
Azure Automation
Azure Functions
Eliminate manual operational activities through automation.

Governance & Compliance
Deploy and maintain Azure Policies.
Monitor policy compliance and non-compliant resources.
Implement automated remediation activities.
Support exception management processes.

Monitoring & Observability
Configure:
Azure Monitor
Log Analytics
Azure Alerts




Create dashboards and compliance reporting solutions.

CI/CD Enablement
Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines.
Implement Terraform validation and deployment workflows.
Integrate security and compliance checks into deployment pipelines.

Operational Support
Troubleshoot platform incidents and performance issues.
Support onboarding of recent acquired business units.
Resolve compliance and governance-related findings.
Perform configuration drift analysis and remediation.

Required Skills & Experience

Azure Services
Azure Virtual Networks
Virtual Machines
Storage Accounts
Key Vault
Azure Monitor
Log Analytics
Azure Policy
RBAC
Managed Identities

Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
Terraform State Management
Terraform Modules
Terraform CI/CD Deployments

Automation
Ansible
PowerShell
Azure CLI
Azure Automation

Monitoring & Compliance
Azure Monitor
Kusto Query Language (KQL)
Azure Resource Graph
Compliance Reporting
Exception Monitoring

DevOps
GitHub Actions
CI/CD Pipelines

Preferred Qualifications
8+ years Azure engineering experience
Azure Administrator Associate or Azure Engineer certifications
Experience implementing Azure Landing Zones

📌 Azure Platform Engineer Toronto (Canada)
🏢 Astra North Infoteck
📍 Canada