Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure, Terraform and Backstage)

Contract Duration: 6 Months with Extension Possibility (6 Months)
Location: United States
Engagement Type: Full-Time Contract
Timezone Requirement: Full overlap with Pacific Time (8:00 AM – 5:00 PM PT)
 

Our enterprise client is expanding its global infrastructure footprint and transforming how new environments are provisioned and managed. The organization is moving away from manual, multi-team provisioning processes toward an automated Active Site Blueprint model.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer to design and build the organization's "Golden Path" for site provisioning—a fully automated, self-service platform that enables one-click deployment of networking, compute, and storage resources in Azure through the Backstage developer portal.

This role combines cloud infrastructure engineering, platform development, GitOps automation, and internal developer platform (IDP) expertise.

Key Responsibilities

● Blueprint Engineering: Use Terraform to architect a modular "Goal State" engine for Azure that enables atomic cloning, diffing, and environment iteration.
● Backstage Integration: Develop Node.js-based plugins or scaffolder actions within Backstage to provide a self-service UI for site and ring provisioning
● Automated State Reconciliation: Build the logic (via pipelines and controllers that leverage ArgoCD, Flux, OpenTofu, Helm Umbrella charts) that synchronizes the "Goal State" Blueprint into "Actual State" Azure resources.
● Service Catalog Ownership: Extend the Backstage Service Catalog to track MSF footprints, providing visibility into pending, active, and deprecated sites.
● Migration (Phase 2): Lead the transition of legacy sites into the new Blueprint framework, ensuring zero-downtime and configuration parity.

Required Qualifications

●7+ years Engineering Experience
● Must be able to work FULL OVERLAP with Pacific Time (8AM to 5PM)
● Terraform & Azure: Advanced expertise in the Azure Provider (azurerm). You should be comfortable with complex VNet peering, Managed Identities, and remote state
management at scale.
● Node.js Development: Strong backend TypeScript/JavaScript skills to customize the Backstage backend and build custom Scaffolder actions.
● Backstage (IDP): Direct experience with the Backstage Software Catalog and Scaffolder. You know how to write template.yaml files and integrate them with GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps.
● CI/CD & GitOps: Mastery of automated PR workflows. You aim to eliminate manual "PR errors" through automated validation and policy-as-code.
● Cloud Architecture: Deep understanding of cloud-native networking, compute, and storage scaling in high-compliance environments (e.g., IL5).

● C1 English Level