Platform Engineer (St Louis)

Platform Engineer

Optomi in partner with a leader in consulting and professional services is looking for a Platform Engineer to Handle day-to-day activities of the Azure and Databricks platforms. This candidate will be the lead engineer overseeing both onshore and offshore team members.

Experience of the right candidate :

• 6-8+ years experience (ideally 8) Platform engineering (Azure + Databricks).
• Terraform mandatory, strong hands-on experience.
• Proven experience in DevOps and Platform Administration in cloud environments, specifically Azure.
• Expertise with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, and CI / CD tools (Azure DevOps (primary), GitHub Actions (secondary, more of a nice to have)).
• Experience building Kubernetes environments from scratch.
• Experience in Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Data Lake and related data engineering tools.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures and container orchestration.
• IAM management (Azure AD, group management).
• VM management.
• Experience working as a Lead Engineer / Team Lead.
• Experience with Key Vault for secure secrets management and key handling.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Understanding of networking and security best practices in cloud environments.

Responsibilities of the right candidate :