SR PLATFORM ENGINEER
Role summary
Newpage Solutions is seeking a Contract Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate an enterprise pro-code AI Agent Platform on Azure. This role requires a blend of cloud platform engineering and hands-on development to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant AI and analytics capabilities with a strong focus on developer experience. Responsibilities include automating Azure environments with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), implementing CI/CD pipelines, ensuring security and compliance, integrating AI/ML services, establishing observability, and managing multi-environment operations. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of professional experience, including 1+ year with Microsoft Azure services and demonstrated experience with Terraform and CI/CD tools. Proficiency in scripting (Bash, Python) and a strong understanding of cloud security best practices are essential.
Location: Remote | Type: Contract
About Newpage Solutions
Newpage Solutions is a global digital health innovation company helping people live longer, healthier lives. We partner with life sciences organisations which include, pharmaceutical, biotech and healthcare leaders, to build transformative AI and data driven technologies addressing real-world health challenges.
From strategy and research to UX design and agile development, we deliver and validate impactful solutions using lean, human-centered practices.
We are proud to be a ‘Great Place to Work®’ certified company for the last three consecutive years. We also hold a top Glassdoor rating and are named among the "Top 50 Most Promising Healthcare Solution Providers" by CIOReview. As an organisation, we foster creativity, continuous learning and inclusivity, creating an environment where bold ideas thrive and make a measurable difference in people’s lives.
Your Mission
We are seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate an enterprise pro-code AI Agent Platform on Azure. The role blends cloud platform engineering and hands-on development to deliver secure, scalable, and compliant AI and analytics capabilities with a strong focus on developer experience
What You’ll Do
- Agent Platform Solution Development: Implement the design, engineering, security, compliance, release management, governance, financial management, roadmap, and service/operation of the enterprise pro-code AI agent platform on Azure, including Foundry integrations.
- Automate Cloud Infrastructure: Develop highly available, scalable, and reproducible Azure environments scripts using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform); implement CI/CD pipelines
for platform components and configurations.
- Security & Compliance by Design: Implement robust controls across identity (RBAC), network (VNets/NSGs), data protection (encryption at rest/in transit), and policy guardrails (Azure Policy), aligned to enterprise and regulatory standards; support regular audits and hardening.
- Integrate Foundry & AI Services: Operationalize Microsoft Foundry and related AI/ML services to enable agentic applications; define patterns, SDK and CLI choices, and operational runbooks for development teams.
- Reliability Engineering & Observability: Establish comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, SLOs/SLAs, and incident response; proactively optimize performance, availability, and cost (e.g., autoscaling, right-sizing, reservations).
- Multi-Environment Operations: Contribute to manage global environments and self-service tenants; coordinate change governance, lifecycle management, and knowledge management
(incident notes, KB articles, run-books, training curricula)
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Statistics, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 3+ years of professional experience, with 1+ hands-on with Microsoft Azure services: compute (VMs, AKS), storage (Blob/SQL), networking (VNet, NSGs), identity (Service Principals/RBAC), APIs (Azure API Management) web interfaces, agentic AI (Foundry/Agent 365).
- Demonstrated experience using Terraform (or equivalent IaC) and CI/CD (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions).
- Proven ability to implement cloud security best practices and compliance controls; incident resolution of medium technical complexity.
- Proficiency in scripting/programming for automation (e.g., Bash, Python); System administration.
- Grit when faced with technical issues - you don't rest until you understand what is happening and why things are not working.
- Collaborate with the Agent Platform team to maintain key informational content and drive platform adoption.
- Superior problem-solving and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Foundry, Agent 365, Lang Chain, LangGraph, MCPs, and agentic application patterns; familiarity with authentication/authorization (IAM,
RBAC, Azure Policies).
- Familiarity with telemetry and observability to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) to help analyse agent’s performance and
behaviour (Open Telemetry/Langfuse).
- Background with big data & distributed systems (Hadoop, Spark, Kubernetes) and debugging networking (DNS, proxies, security groups).
- Exposure to additional IaC/automation tools (ARM/Bicep, Ansible) and governance (Azure Policy).
- Knowledge of data/analytics services (Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, Databricks, Snowflake, Dataiku) and platform integration patterns.
- Certifications: Microsoft Certified (Azure Administrator/Solutions Architect), HashiCorp Terraform Associate an asset
What We Offer
At Newpage, we’re building a company that works smart and grows with agility, where driven individuals come together to do work that matters. We offer:
- A people-first culture - Supportive peers, open communication and a strong sense of belonging
- Smart, purposeful collaboration - Work with talented colleagues to create technologies that solve meaningful business challenges
- Balance that lasts - We respect your time and support a healthy integration of work and life
- Room to grow - Opportunities for learning, leadership and career development, shaped around you
- Meaningful rewards - Competitive compensation that recognises both contribution and potential
Ready to Apply?
Let’s build the future of health together. Apply below or reach out to:
Bhavik.rathod@newpage.io
#### More about Newpage
Newpage is a digital health solutions company. We devote ourselves to advancing the quality of life by enhancing health and optimizing the longevity of people. We do this by, passionately building futuristic technologies for global organizations across the healthcare ecosystem. We partake at every stage from problem definition, strategy & service design, user research, UX design, and agile software development – utilizing lean practices to deliver and validate highly innovative digital health solutions that drive user value and business transformation.
Newpage is recognized by ‘CIO’s Review’ as “Top 50 Promising Healthcare Solution Providers” and Great Place to Work Certified (GPTW) 2023 & 2024.