Cloud Platform Engineer AP

What is special about Lighthouse? Lighthouse is built on a foundation of unique, compassionate, highly driven individuals. We elevate the strengths and talents of those around us while leveraging opportunities for growth. We offer the experience of solving complex problems while continuing to grow multiple facets of your career. Lighthouse is where innovation meets support and where collaboration is the key ingredient to success. We grow together and are stronger together. What’s unique about this role? The Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, scalability, and reliability of Lighthouse’s product platforms. This role focuses on managing hybrid cloud infrastructure, enabling automation, and delivering robust platform services to development and product teams. The position emphasizes automation, observability, and continuous improvement to support high-quality software delivery. Strong collaboration and communication skills are essential to effectively partner with development, QA, and operations teams. What will this person do? Manage and optimize hybrid cloud infrastructure on Azure, including monitoring, patching, upgrades, and automation. Build, enhance, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions), along with logging and configuration management systems. Support and scale Kubernetes/container platforms (AKS) Drive cloud security practices, including SAST/DAST integration and SecOps maturity initiatives. Administer and maintain shared service platforms (e.g., RabbitMQ, MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch) Monitor system performance, availability, and reliability using observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, etc.) Ensure secure and compliant deployments by adhering to governance, security standards, and best practices. Collaborate with development and product teams across the SDLC to align on releases, deployments, and priorities. Apply Agile and DevOps principles to improve build, deployment, and release processes. Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for provisioning and managing infrastructure. Good understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture Experience in monitoring and logging tools Familiarity with Linux/Unix systems and scripting (Python/Bash) Troubleshoot issues across infrastructure, applications, and integrations. Participate in on-call rotations and support occasional off-hours maintenance activities. Perform other related duties as required. Bring your passion and together we will shine. It would also be great if you had the following: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience/certification). Programming skills in C# (.NET and .NET Core). Knowledge of Python, scripting, or Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, ARM/Bicep).