Senior Platform Engineer (DevOps & Cloud Platform)

Location: Edina, MN 55435

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Engineering

• Design and implement internal platform capabilities that enable self-service deployment and management of cloud resources.
• Develop reusable platform patterns, templates, golden paths, and reference architectures.
• Partner with application, data, security, IAM, and SRE teams to standardize and automate platform services.
• Establish platform roadmaps that improve developer experience and accelerate delivery.

DevOps & CI/CD

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Implement deployment automation across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Establish release management, branching strategies, artifact management, and deployment governance.
• Enable secure, credential-free deployments using OIDC federation and managed identities.
• Measure and improve deployment frequency, lead time, and change success rates.

Cloud Infrastructure

Engineer and operate Azure platform services including

Virtual Networks

Private Endpoints

Azure DNS

Key Vault

Storage Accounts

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

API Management (APIM)

Azure Front Door

• Design secure and scalable network architectures supporting enterprise workloads.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Pulumi
• Create reusable modules and deployment standards.
• Manage infrastructure lifecycle through source control and automated pipelines.
• Enforce configuration consistency across environments.

Kubernetes & Container Platforms

Deploy and manage workloads running on AKS.

Implement Kubernetes operational best practices including

Scaling

Resiliency

Secrets management

Ingress

Develop container deployment standards and operational runbooks.

Troubleshoot and optimize cluster performance and reliability.

Developer Self-Service

• Build self-service platform capabilities that reduce manual infrastructure provisioning.
• Provide standardized deployment templates and automation workflows.
• Improve developer onboarding and application delivery experiences.
• Integrate platform services into developer portals and workflow automation platforms.

Security & Identity

• Implement secure cloud architectures aligned with enterprise security policies.
• Integrate Azure services with Entra ID.
• Configure Managed Identities, OAuth/OIDC, service principals, and workload identity federation.
• Collaborate with IAM teams on authentication, authorization, and least-privilege access models.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security and regulatory requirements.

Observability & Reliability

• Implement monitoring and observability using Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and related tools.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, and operational metrics.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities.
• Partner with SRE teams to improve platform reliability and performance.

FinOps & Governance

• Support cloud governance initiatives.
• Implement tagging, chargeback, and cost allocation strategies.
• Identify optimization opportunities for cloud resources.
• Partner with FinOps teams on cloud consumption reporting and financial accountability.

Estimated Hiring Range

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $102,400.00 to $179,000.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.