About the role

Install, deploy, configure, upgrade, patch, and administer Commercial, ETRM, Market Data, and vendor applications across nonproduction, disaster recovery, and production environments.
Own application-platform readiness, configuration, reliability, performance, supportability, and lifecycle execution on Azure infrastructure supplied by enterprise cloud teams.
Develop deep product knowledge of application components, services, databases, integrations, dependencies, sizing, and recovery requirements.
Collaborate with Application Development, Business SMEs, Vendors, Enterprise Cloud Engineering, Platform Engineering, Database, Security, and Service Management teams.

Deploy and configure vendor and custom applications on Azure Windows Server VMs, including services, IIS, schedulers, middleware, client components, and environment settings.
Administer application workloads on Azure SQL Managed Instance, including database deployment, connectivity, SQL Agent jobs, backup and restore coordination, diagnostics, and capacity monitoring.
Translate vendor architecture and installation requirements into repeatable build, validation, cutover, rollback, and transition plans.
Tune application performance using operating-system metrics, SQL diagnostics, logs, workload behavior, resource utilization, and vendor guidance.
Troubleshoot applications, Windows, SQL MI, integrations, certificates, storage, service accounts, connectivity, and configuration.
Plan application upgrades, patch compatibility, environment refreshes, resilience tests, capacity, and platform optimization.

Build and maintain GitHub Actions workflows for installation, release orchestration, configuration, database deployment, validation, approvals, and rollback.
Use Terraform within enterprise-approved patterns to provision application environments and supporting Azure resources.
Develop PowerShell and other scripts for environment setup, patching, health checks, configuration validation, service management, log collection, and recurring tasks.
Standardize reusable deployment packages, configuration, secrets references, release controls, and automated tests to reduce manual effort and drift.
Troubleshoot pipeline, deployment, dependency, artifact, Terraform state, configuration, and release failures.

Hands-on administration of applications hosted on Azure Windows Server VMs and Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Strong experience installing, configuring, upgrading, patching, troubleshooting, and supporting vendor or enterprise applications.
Practical expertise with GitHub Actions, Terraform, PowerShell, Git, CI/CD, release management, and environment provisioning.
Working knowledge of Windows services, IIS, scheduled tasks, certificates, service accounts, SQL diagnostics, backup and restore, and application connectivity.
Demonstrated performance tuning, capacity planning, monitoring, root cause analysis, reliability improvement, technical documentation, and cross-team collaboration skills.

Experience with energy trading, ETRM/CTRM, Market Data, risk, scheduling, logistics, settlement, or pricing platforms.
Experience with RightAngle, TriplePoint, PlanLogic, Endur, ZEMA, or comparable vendor applications.
Knowledge of Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Splunk, REST APIs, middleware, messaging, integrations, .NET, Python, Bash, or enterprise schedulers.
Familiarity with ITIL, change governance, SOX controls, audit readiness, disaster recovery, and regulated environments.
Relevant Azure, GitHub, Terraform, or SQL certifications.
Associate-level certification: Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03), or Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204). GitHub Foundations is recommended.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent practical experience considered.
5+ years in application platform engineering, DevOps, application operations, site reliability, or related technical delivery.
3+ years of hands-on experience supporting Azure-hosted Windows and SQL-based business applications.
Demonstrated delivery of application deployments, vendor upgrades, automation, operational readiness, and platform improvements.

Azure API Management, Azure App Service

Cloud Platform Engineer