Urgently required::Lead Cloud Platform Engineer(Ex-Microsoft Employees Only) _ :Seattle/ Redmond/ Bellevue, WA- Long-Term Contract

[Vasu Naidu]

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Role:  Lead Cloud Platform Engineer(Ex-Microsoft Employees Only)

Locations: Seattle/ Redmond/ Bellevue, Washington

Work Model: Onsite

Duration: Long-Term Contract

End Client: Microsoft

Interview mode: Virtual

 

Job Description

The requirement for Lead Cloud Platform Engineer is as given below. Can you help me in getting the right resource for the same

 

Role Summary

The Lead/Architect- Microsoft platform FS +AI  will provide technical leadership for the design, development, enhancement, and operation of Microsoft's cloud-based experiment execution platform supporting hybrid Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and AI-assisted security research. This role will lead the expansion of the existing experimentation framework to support an increasing number and diversity of automated security experiments while enabling engineers to rapidly compare the effectiveness, efficiency, and accuracy of multiple hybrid SAST implementations.

 

The Lead Cloud Platform Engineer will architect, develop, and optimize cloud-native services on the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform using C#, TypeScript, PowerShell, and Python, leveraging Azure Batch, Azure Data Explorer (Kusto), containerized workloads, modern web technologies, and AI-assisted software development practices. The role will provide technical leadership, establish engineering standards, mentor engineering teams, and collaborate closely with Microsoft's Security Engineering, Data Analytics, and Research organizations to continuously improve the experimentation platform.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, development, enhancement, and operational support of Microsoft's cloud-based experiment execution platform supporting hybrid Static Application Security Testing (SAST).
• Expand and modernize the existing experimentation platform to support an increasing number and diversity of repeatable, automated security experiments.
• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud-native services on the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform.
• Architect, develop, deploy, and support distributed containerized workloads running on Azure Batch to enable scalable experiment execution.
• Design, develop, and optimize integrations with Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) for experiment orchestration, telemetry collection, analytics, and reporting.
• Develop backend services, RESTful APIs, orchestration components, automation frameworks, and cloud-native applications supporting experiment scheduling, execution, monitoring, and result collection.
• Design, develop, and enhance modern web-based user interfaces that enable engineers to analyze, compare, and interpret experiment results across multiple hybrid SAST implementations.
• Develop automation solutions using PowerShell and Python for deployment, infrastructure management, platform operations, scripting, and engineering productivity.
• Leverage modern Large Language Model (LLM)-assisted development practices to accelerate software development, code generation, debugging, testing, refactoring, and engineering productivity.
• Collaborate with Security Engineering, Application Security, Data Analytics, and Research teams to integrate experimentation, analytics, reporting, and platform capabilities.
• Lead technical architecture reviews, code reviews, design discussions, and engineering governance to ensure scalability, reliability, maintainability, security, and operational excellence.
• Mentor engineering team members, establish engineering standards, promote best practices, and drive continuous technical improvement.
• Partner with Microsoft engineering stakeholders to prioritize platform enhancements, resolve technical challenges, manage engineering risks, and continuously evolve the experimentation platform.

 

Required Skills

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in cloud platform engineering, distributed systems, or enterprise software development.
• Mandatory expertise developing enterprise-scale cloud-native services on the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform.
• Mandatory hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting containerized workloads running on Azure Batch.
• Mandatory hands-on experience with Azure Data Explorer (Kusto), including KQL development, data ingestion, analytics integration, query optimization, and operational troubleshooting.
• Mandatory experience designing, deploying, and managing Docker-based containerized applications.
• Advanced proficiency in C#/.NET for backend application and service development.
• Advanced proficiency in TypeScript for modern web application and user interface development.
• Mandatory hands-on experience developing, enhancing, and maintaining modern web-based user interfaces using TypeScript and contemporary web technologies.
• Mandatory hands-on experience with PowerShell for infrastructure automation, deployment, operational scripting, and platform administration.
• Mandatory hands-on experience with Python for automation, scripting, API integration, data processing, engineering tooling, and operational automation.
• Mandatory experience developing RESTful APIs, backend services, distributed systems, and cloud-native microservices.
• Strong experience with Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployment practices.
• Mandatory expertise in adopting and applying modern LLM-assisted software development practices, including the effective use of AI-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI, ChatGPT, or equivalent) to improve software quality, engineering productivity, code generation, testing, debugging, and solution delivery.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, distributed computing, scalability, performance optimization, observability, reliability, secure software engineering, and cloud operational excellence.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and technical documentation skills.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management.

 

Preferred Skills

• Experience with hybrid Static Application Security Testing (SAST), secure software engineering, or application security platforms.
• Experience with CodeQL, vulnerability research, secure code analysis, and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes (AKS), Azure Container Apps, or other cloud container orchestration platforms.
• Experience designing experimentation platforms, benchmarking frameworks, engineering productivity platforms, or cloud-native research systems.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures, distributed messaging systems, telemetry platforms, and cloud observability solutions.
• Experience working within Agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery environments supporting enterprise-scale engineering organizations.

 

Leadership Responsibilities

• Serve as the Technical Lead for Azure Platform Engineering throughout the engagement.
• Define technical architecture, engineering standards, cloud implementation strategies, and software development best practices.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical design reviews, code reviews, and engineering governance activities.
• Drive technical decision-making for Azure platform services, experimentation frameworks, automation solutions, and cloud-native application development.
• Coordinate engineering activities across Cloud Platform Engineering, Security Engineering, Data Analytics, and Application Security workstreams.
• Mentor engineers, foster technical excellence, facilitate knowledge sharing, and support the professional growth of team members.
• Collaborate with Microsoft engineering leadership to define technical priorities, manage engineering risks, and ensure successful delivery of platform enhancements.
• Drive continuous innovation by adopting modern cloud-native technologies, automation practices, and AI-assisted engineering capabilities.
• Ensure platform solutions meet Microsoft's standards for scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, operational excellence, and engineering quality.

Thanks & Regards,

Vasu.K

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Email: va...@atvsllc.com

 

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