Azure Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Title: Azure Cloud Platform Engineer  Company: Toro Technology Center India

Who Are We?

The Toro Company is a homegrown, Minnesota-based company that has been in business since 1914. We pride ourselves on providing world-class equipment to help maintain the environment that we love, while putting an emphasis on giving back to the communities that surround us. From residential lawns and gardens to Golf Clubs and sports grounds we are a company with a global footprint and a passion for helping people beautify whatever landscape they may be in. With 100+ years of operation under our belt and an average employee tenure of 15 years, come find out what makes The Toro Company the best place to build a career.

What Will You Do?

In order to grow and build a successful career with The Toro Company, you will be responsible for: 

• Collaborate with technical leadership, architecture, security, application, data, and AI teams to design and deliver secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective Azure platform solutions.
• Engineer and support enterprise Azure Landing Zones, management groups, subscriptions, resource organization, tagging, policy, logging, and governance patterns.
• Design and implement Azure networking and connectivity patterns, including VNets, DNS, firewalls, private endpoints, routing, and secure hybrid or enterprise connectivity.
• Build and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code using Terraform as a core engineering tool; use Bicep and Azure Verified Modules where they provide a strong Azure-native fit.
• Develop versioned, tested, reusable IaC modules and platform patterns that standardize cloud provisioning and reduce manual deployment effort.
• Build and maintain CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps, including reusable workflows, environment promotion, approvals, testing, and deployment traceability.
• Implement secure cloud identity patterns using Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, managed identities, Privileged Identity Management, Key Vault, and workload identity or OIDC-based authentication.
• Embed security and governance into engineering workflows using least privilege, Azure Policy, secure defaults, vulnerability and secret scanning, and documented exception handling.
• Build observability and operational readiness using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, dashboards, actionable alerting, runbooks, and service ownership practices.
• Own platform capabilities across their lifecycle - design, build, deployment, operations, incident response, root-cause analysis, resilience improvement, and retirement.
• Apply cloud FinOps practices including cost allocation, tagging, budgeting, forecasting, rightsizing, utilization analysis, anomaly identification, and optimization recommendations.
• Automate recurring operational and provisioning activities using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or equivalent scripting and automation techniques.
• Partner with application, data, analytics, and AI engineering teams to provide secure cloud foundations, connectivity, compute, storage, and deployment patterns for modern workloads.
• Create clear technical documentation, reference architectures, reusable examples, and knowledge-transfer material that supports consistent adoption across global teams.

What Do You Need?

To be considered for this role, an individual should meet the following minimal requirements: 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in Cloud, Infrastructure, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, including at least 3 years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state, versioning, environment separation, and production deployment patterns.
• Strong experience with Azure platform services, networking, identity, security, governance, and automation.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Enterprise, including CI/CD pipelines or GitHub Actions and source-control-based engineering practices.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, managed identities, Azure Policy, Key Vault, private endpoints, and enterprise networking concepts.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, incident response, operational support, and reliability practices for production cloud services.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or automation language such as PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Understanding of cloud cost management and FinOps principles, including tagging, cost ownership, budgeting, rightsizing, and optimization.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across global, cross-functional engineering teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Azure Well-Architected Framework, Azure Landing Zone design principles, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), SLOs, or resilience testing.
• Experience supporting cloud foundations for data, analytics, or AI workloads, including secure connectivity, compute, storage, identity, and deployment automation.
• Exposure to multi-cloud engineering patterns or AWS/GCP is beneficial; Azure remains the primary focus of this role.
• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), or HashiCorp Terraform Associate are preferred, but equivalent practical experience is valued.
• Experience creating reusable platform services, self-service or 'golden path' capabilities, internal developer platforms, or cloud service catalogs.

What Can We Give You?   

At The Toro Company, we are always working to make sure our employees know just how valued they are. In addition to a competitive salary, an affordable and top tier medical insurance plan many other great benefits - The Toro company offers employees , a variety of perks, including: 

Dress for your day - We know you're more productive when you're comfortable, which is why TTC employees are encouraged to take advantage of our casual, corporate environment. 

Location – Conveniently located Baner, Pune we are centrally located for most commuters! 

Food - Take advantage of our café, which serves both breakfast and lunch. You can grab a snack and a coffee at any time during your day. 

Wellness - The Toro Company  offers complimentary use of our onsite fitness facility to employees. In addition to physical wellbeing, TTC offers a variety of mental health and financial health resources to all employees.

Volunteerism - The Toro Company is proud to provide employees 20 hours of paid time to volunteer in the community. 

Flexible Work Arrangements – This team is currently implementing a hybrid work schedule. The opportunity to collaborate in the office and work from home part-time, has promoted team-building and flexibility.