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title: 'Senior Azure Platform / DevOps Engineer at Makai Labs'
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# Senior Azure Platform / DevOps Engineer at Makai Labs

- **Company:** Makai Labs
- **Location:** Remote
- **Compensation:** $60–$75/hr
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-07-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/makai-labs/d563ac6e-31b0-4fb9-967b-f6cda3660034

## Job description

## SENIOR AZURE PLATFORM / DEVOPS ENGINEER

## ABOUT MAKAI

Makai uses best-in-class AI and data to solve real-world operational and strategic challenges at scale. We help businesses with enterprise automation, human-machine teaming, product design and development, and market intelligence. Until now, people have had to learn and adapt to software. Makai creates solutions that adapt to people because technology will never be 100% accurate. People are essential for all of our human-machine teaming solutions.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

We build and run cloud platforms for our clients. A lot of the time that means standing up a reusable Terraform foundation and adapting it for each client and environment. You'd own these platforms: design them, build them from an empty subscription, keep them running, and act as the person who actually knows how the whole thing fits together.

This is a senior role with a lot of trust attached. The clients differ, the topologies differ, the pipelines differ. What stays constant is Azure and the expectation that you can size up an unfamiliar setup, make the right calls, and own the result.

## THE IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL BE ABLE TO

- Stand up new platforms from scratch: network, compute, data, and the pipeline to ship to them.
- Make the architecture calls and live with them. That includes knowing when a Terraform change is a safe in-place update and when it's a destroy-and-replace you should never run blind against production.
- Run migrations that carry real risk. Move a live platform onto a new foundation, read the plan correctly, write the runbook, and have a rollback ready before you start.
- Keep platforms healthy over time: provider upgrades, drift, security, and not letting a shared foundation rot as more clients land on it.
- Work directly with the client's own DevOps engineers. Often they're the ones running the apply and you're advising, so you need to explain a plan, unblock a failure quickly, and be someone the engineer holding the keys trusts.

## QUALIFICATIONS

Azure experience is the hard requirement. You've built and run production Azure yourself, not just used modules someone else wrote. Specifically:

- Azure networking is where most of the work lives: VNets and subnets, private endpoints and private DNS zones, NSGs and UDRs, NAT, Application Gateway and WAF, load balancers, and hub-and-spoke / Virtual WAN.
- Terraform on Azure, with state treated as something you respect: workspaces, migrations, imports, remote backends, and the discipline not to force an apply through a lifecycle guard.
- The delivery path: Azure Container Registry, VM Scale Sets and cloud-init, and CI/CD with Azure DevOps or GitHub.
- Azure data services: Postgres Flexible Server, managed Redis, Blob storage, and a real sense of their sizing, failover, and cutover risks.
- Entra ID and RBAC: app registrations, service principals, role assignments scoped properly across subscriptions.
- Clear writing and a level head on a live call. You can hand someone a runbook they can follow without you in the room.

## NICE-TO-HAVES

- Azure certs (AZ-104, AZ-305).
- Temporal or similar workflow runtimes, and scripting (Bash, Python) for the glue.
- Past consulting or client-embedded work. You've been the outside expert before.

## HOW WE WORK

Small senior teams, real ownership. We'd rather have one engineer who understands a platform top to bottom than several who each own a slice.

## CORE VALUES FOR MAKAI EMPLOYEES

- Be a flexible, innovative and creative thinker
- Be congenial and a team player
- Be self-sufficient
- Be self-driven with an ownership mentality
- Have a strong work ethic

## About Makai Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Makai Labs develops AI-enabled process automation solutions that adapt to people, helping enterprises automate repetitive tasks and make smarter decisions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped; no disclosed funding)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Founded by MIT alumni (specific founder names not publicly listed; leadership includes CEO Joseph Kim, CTO Adrian Ghiuta)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / Process Automation
- **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to large enterprises across industries (healthcare, finance, logistics, etc.)
- **Mission**: “Workforce enablement, not employee replacement” – building human-machine teaming solutions that improve work quality while keeping people as the final check.

## Products & Services
- **Enterprise Automation**: End-to-end automation services to streamline business operations, integrating various systems and processes.
- **Robotic Process Automation (RPA)**: Automation of high-volume, rule-based tasks using software robots.
- **Natural Language Processing (NLP)**: Textual analysis and data extraction from unstructured documents.
- **Application Development**: Custom applications tailored to specific business needs.
- **Computer Vision**: Image and video analysis to automate visual tasks.
- **Market Intelligence**: AI-driven competitive and market research to support proactive decision-making.
- **Product Design & Development**: Adaptation and improvement of existing tech tools to transform business processes.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: 13 employees (as of mid-2025), +90% YoY headcount growth
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None disclosed publicly
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Active job postings: 21 (up 75% year-over-year)
  - LinkedIn follower growth: +163.9% yearly
  - Website traffic: +16.6% yearly
  - Expanding global presence: offices in Brazil, Poland, Romania

## Competitive Advantages
- **Human-in-the-loop approach**: Technology is never 100% accurate, so Makai keeps people as the final firewall, ensuring quality and trust.
- **MIT-alumni founded**: Brings 20+ years of cross-disciplinary experience in AI, computer science, UX/UI, and business.
- **Full-stack AI capabilities**: Combines RPA, NLP, computer vision, and custom development under one roof – not just a point solution.
- **Adaptive software**: Solutions that learn and adjust to how people work, rather than forcing users to adapt to rigid tools.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the engineering and consulting team to meet growing client demand.
- Continuing to develop “groundbreaking AI products” (per LinkedIn updates) while maintaining a strong human-in-the-loop philosophy.
- Expanding into new verticals (healthcare, finance) and global markets (Europe, Latin America).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Tight-knit, fast-moving team solving meaningful problems. Emphasis on collaboration and impact.
- **Work policy**: Hybrid/remote flexibility – job postings list “In-Office or Remote”; HQ in New York with distributed team members.
- **Engineering culture**: Modern tech stack (React, Python, Docker, PostgreSQL, Flask, etc.) and exposure to cutting-edge AI/ML projects.
- **Growth**: Rapidly scaling company (90% headcount growth) with opportunities for ownership and career advancement.
- **Perks**: Not explicitly detailed, but the company highlights “good people” and meaningful work as key draws.

## Sources
1. [makailabs.ai](https://makailabs.ai/)
2. [makailabs.ai/about](https://makailabs.ai/about)
3. [linkedin.com/company/makai-labs](https://www.linkedin.com/company/makai-labs)
4. [builtinnyc.com/company/makai-labs](https://www.builtinnyc.com/company/makai-labs)
5. [crunchbase.com/organization/makai-labs](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/makai-labs)

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