Senior Azure Platform / DevOps Engineer at Makai Labs
$124,800–$156,000
Jul 6, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role focused on designing, building, and maintaining Azure cloud platforms for multiple clients, primarily using Terraform. Day-to-day work spans Azure networking, data services, identity, and CI/CD pipelines — from standing up new environments to running live migrations and keeping shared foundations healthy. The role suits an experienced Azure and Terraform practitioner comfortable making architecture decisions independently and working directly alongside client-side engineers.
Senior level · Remote
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,150 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 440–3,200
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily building and owning cloud platforms via Terraform and CI/CD pipelines (infrastructure-as-code, shipping code) which maps to Software Developers (15-1252), but the heavy emphasis on Azure networking operations and keeping platforms running also has meaningful overlap with Network and Computer Systems Administrators (15-1244).
Azure Networking is listed as a required hard gate and broken out into many sub-components (VNets, NSGs, UDRs, private endpoints, private DNS, NAT, Application Gateway/WAF, hub-and-spoke/Virtual WAN). These are captured under a single 'Azure Networking' skill to avoid over-fragmenting the list, with the most distinct named services (Azure Virtual Network, Azure Private Endpoints, Azure Application Gateway) called out separately.
Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions are listed as interchangeable CI/CD options ('Azure DevOps or GitHub') in the requirements section — captured as one skill with GitHub Actions as an alternative.
Bash and Python appear only under the Nice-to-haves section alongside Temporal, so all three are marked preferred.
Azure certifications (AZ-104, AZ-305) are listed under Nice-to-haves; certifications are not emitted as skills per extraction rules.
No compensation figures, employment type, or degree requirement are stated in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Azure VM Scale Sets.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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