Fabric Platform Engineer

Accountabilities

Platform Infrastructure and Reliability: Manage the Microsoft Fabric environment, including workspace architecture, capacity allocation, and Dev, UAT, and Production environment separation. Build and maintain resilient infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Hybrid Connectivity and Networking: Own the connectivity between source systems and Microsoft Fabric, including AWS-hosted On-Premises Data Gateway clusters, site-to-site VPNs, VPC peering, private subnets, and traffic routing. Ensure reliable, secure, and highly available data connectivity in production.
CI/CD and Release Management: Design, implement, and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for deploying Fabric artefacts across environments. Establish and enforce branching strategies, pull request governance, version control practices, and auditable release processes.
Security and Identity Management: Govern the platform's access model using Microsoft Entra ID, workspace role-based access control (RBAC), security groups, and service principals. Manage credentials, secrets rotation through Azure Key Vault, and periodic access reviews to maintain strong security standards.
Power BI Administration and Embedding: Maintain Power BI workspace administration, deployment workflows, and App Owns Data embedding for internal applications. Configure authentication, workspace permissions, and Row-Level Security (RLS) to support internal users and external customer identities securely.
Monitoring and Incident Management: Implement platform-wide monitoring for Fabric capacity, data pipeline execution, gateway connectivity, and AWS infrastructure using tools such as Amazon CloudWatch. Define alerting thresholds, escalation procedures, and incident response processes, taking ownership of first-line infrastructure troubleshooting.
Data Source and Customer Onboarding: Integrate new data sources through established ingestion and connectivity frameworks. Manage customer reporting access by configuring Entra ID groups, workspace permissions, and the required RLS entries in the Gold Warehouse.
Capacity and Cost Optimisation: Review Fabric capacity utilisation and compute consumption across production and non-production environments each month. Analyse workload costs, identify optimisation opportunities, and provide capacity planning and scaling recommendations.
Data Governance and Engineering Standards: Support data asset registration, metadata tagging, lineage documentation, and ownership management in Microsoft Purview. Contribute to platform naming conventions, technical standards, reusable templates, and engineering best practices.
Automation and Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to automate operational processes using Power Automate, Microsoft Power Platform, Python, PowerShell, and relevant APIs. Evaluate new Microsoft Fabric, Azure DevOps, and AWS capabilities and recommend improvements to platform operations.
Documentation and Operational Readiness: Maintain clear architecture documentation, deployment runbooks, incident response procedures, onboarding guides, and standard operating procedures to ensure consistent, auditable, and repeatable platform management.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with data engineering, architecture, security, and other distributed teams to maintain platform standards, manage priorities, and ensure the platform supports evolving business requirements.
Requirements
Professional Experience: At least 5 years of experience in platform engineering, cloud engineering, data DevOps, or a related role, with hands-on responsibility for production infrastructure, availability, and operational reliability.
Microsoft Fabric Expertise: Strong practical experience administering Microsoft Fabric, including workspace management, capacity administration, Git integration with Azure DevOps, and Fabric Deployment Pipelines.
Azure DevOps and CI/CD: Demonstrated experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, managing source control, implementing branching strategies, governing pull requests, and coordinating releases for data platform artefacts.
Infrastructure as Code: Mandatory hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and management, particularly for AWS EC2 instances and gateway infrastructure.
AWS and Cloud Infrastructure: Practical experience with Amazon EC2, VPCs, subnets, security groups, and CloudWatch monitoring, including the management and troubleshooting of cloud-hosted infrastructure.
Gateway and Network Connectivity: Experience managing On-Premises Data Gateways or Self-Hosted Integration Runtime (SHIR) in production, including high-availability clustering and patching. Strong understanding of hybrid connectivity, site-to-site VPNs, VPC peering, private networking, and traffic routing.
Identity and Access Management: Solid knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD), including security groups, service principals, B2B guest identities, RBAC, and secure credential management.
Power BI Administration: Experience with workspace administration, deployment pipelines, publishing workflows, and the App Owns Data embedding model, including authentication configuration and RLS validation.
Automation and Secrets Management: Proficiency in Python or PowerShell scripting for operational automation, alongside experience with Azure Key Vault or equivalent solutions for secure secrets storage and credential rotation.
Education: A bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering, or a related discipline.
Communication and Documentation: Strong written and verbal English skills, with the ability to document architecture decisions, create operational runbooks, and communicate technical information clearly to stakeholders across different cultures and time zones.
Operational Ownership: A proactive, detail-oriented approach to troubleshooting, incident diagnosis, security, risk management, change control, and prioritisation. Ability to take end-to-end responsibility for platform reliability, including responding to production incidents outside standard working hours when required.
Collaboration and Adaptability: Comfortable working independently at a senior level while collaborating with globally distributed teams. Demonstrates a continuous learning mindset and a commitment to keeping up with developments in Microsoft Fabric, Azure DevOps, and AWS.
Desirable Technical Skills: Familiarity with Microsoft Purview, Terraform Cloud or Terragrunt, AWS Systems Manager (SSM), Power BI REST APIs, and Microsoft Power Automate or the broader Power Platform.
Desirable Industry Experience: Exposure to maritime, logistics, international supply chains, managed service providers, shared platforms, or environments supporting multiple clients and workloads.
Desirable Certifications: Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Azure DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400), or Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700). Additional language proficiency is also an advantage.
Location and Travel: Based in India and able to work remotely, with availability to visit the Chennai office once per quarter. Travel expenses for these visits must be covered by the successful candidate.
Benefits
Competitive salary aligned with experience, skills, and geographical location.
Retirement savings plan to support long-term financial wellbeing.
Life assurance coverage.
Healthcare benefits.
Employee Assistance Programme to support personal wellbeing.
Career development and progression opportunities.
Opportunities to work with modern cloud, data, and DevOps technologies in a global operating environment.
Exposure to large-scale data platform engineering, infrastructure automation, security governance, and production reliability.
Opportunities to contribute to engineering standards, platform architecture, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Team-building activities and employee recognition events.
Remote working arrangements, with quarterly visits to the Chennai office required at the employee's own expense.
A collaborative, inclusive working environment that values diverse perspectives, continuous learning, and professional growth.