Company Description
IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.
At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.
We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.
By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.
We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.
If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.
Job Description
As a Principal Azure Cloud Developer on our Cloud Engineering team on a contract basis, you’ll architect and build the next-generation, containerized platform that powers IFS’s AI-driven decision analytics solutions. You’ll lead design and implementation of cloud-native patterns, serverless components, and container orchestration on Microsoft Azure, while evangelizing best practices and mentoring fellow developers.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect & Implement: Design robust, scalable Azure solutions—leveraging Kubernetes on AKS, serverless, and cloud-native services.
• Platform Development: Build and maintain microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (Bicep/Terraform) for our containerized platform.
• Best-Practice Evangelism: Define and codify Azure architecture guidelines, secure by design standards, and cost-optimization strategies.
• Knowledge Sharing: Lead knowledge sharing sessions, code reviews, and hack-sessions to upskill the team in cloud-native development.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product owners, QA, and operations to continuously improve reliability, performance, and developer experience.

What You’ll Learn & Contribute

• Deepen expertise in Azure PaaS/IaaS services, Kubernetes (AKS), and serverless architectures.
• Master infrastructure-as-code tooling (Bicep or Terraform) and automated deployment workflows.
• Gain hands-on experience with container registries (ACR), service meshes, and Azure DevOps.
• Collaborate in an Agile/Scrum environment, integrating AI tools to accelerate development.

Qualifications

You have the following background, although we also recognize that talent comes in many forms:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years architecting cloud-native solutions on Azure.
• Strong mastery of C#, .NET, and containerized applications.
• Fluent in the use of modern AI tooling, such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cursor, and AI-enhanced IDEs, to accelerate coding, testing, refactoring, and documentation workflow.
• Proven track record designing serverless applications and Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Hands-on with infrastructure as code (Bicep, Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent communicator and mentor, passionate about sharing knowledge and uplifting teams.
• Actively follows developments in the AI ecosystem, with a mindset of continuous learning and experimentation to apply the latest advancements in cloud architectures, productivity, and code quality.
• Self-driven, pragmatic problem-solver who thrives in a collaborative, fast-moving environment.

We look forward to seeing how you’ll accelerate and elevate our AI-powered enterprise platform!

• Architect & Implement: Design robust, scalable Azure solutions—leveraging Kubernetes on AKS, serverless, and cloud-native services.
• Platform Development: Build and maintain microservices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (Bicep/Terraform) for our containerized platform.
• Best-Practice Evangelism: Define and codify Azure architecture guidelines, secure by design standards, and cost-optimization strategies.
• Knowledge Sharing: Lead knowledge sharing sessions, code reviews, and hack-sessions to upskill the team in cloud-native development.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product owners, QA, and operations to continuously improve reliability, performance, and developer experience