Associate- Azure Infrastructure Quality Engineer

Requisition ID	36035
Office Country	Bulgaria
Office City	Sofia
Division	Information Technology
Contract Type	Fixed Term
Contract Length	3 years
Posting End Date	07/09/2026

 

 

 

 

Platform Quality Engineer (Hybrid Infrastructure)

 

Purpose of Job

The Quality Engineer – Platform Engineering is responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, and resilience of the enterprise platform stack across on‑premises infrastructure and cloud environments (Azure).

This role validates the platform across the full stack — from hardware, firmware, operating systems, and network/storage paths to cloud-native services and infrastructure-as-code (IaC).

 

Unlike traditional software testing roles, the focus is on platform quality, performance, resilience, and operational readiness rather than application functionality, UI testing, or business feature validation.

 

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

1. Platform and Infrastructure Validation

• Validate infrastructure deployments defined via Terraform
• Ensure correctness of:
• Networking (routing, segmentation, ingress/egress paths)
• Identity and access (RBAC, managed identities)
• Platform services (AKS, APIM, databases, etc.)
• Ensure consistent behaviour across on‑prem and cloud environments

2. On-Prem Hardware and Firmware Validation

• Validate:
• Server hardware provisioning and configuration
• Firmware compatibility (BIOS/UEFI, NICs, storage controllers)
• OS readiness for platform workloads
• Ensure stability following firmware updates or hardware changes
• Verify hardware performance aligns with expected workloads

3. Network and Storage Path Management

• Validate network paths:
• Load balancing, routing, failover paths
• Hybrid connectivity (VPN, ExpressRoute)
• Validate storage paths:
• Multipath configurations
• Failover resilience
• Ensure no single points of failure across the infrastructure

4. Non-Functional Platform Testing (Primary Focus)

• Design and execute testing for:
• Performance (latency, throughput)
• Scalability (auto-scaling, capacity limits)
• Availability (failover, geo-replication)
• Resilience (failure scenarios across hybrid environments)
• Conduct failure simulations:
• Node failures
• Network outages
• Region failover scenarios

5. CI/CD & Infrastructure Quality Engineering

• Integrate quality checks into CI/CD pipelines:
• Terraform validation
• Deployment verification (pre/post checks)
• Define and enforce quality gates for environment promotion
• Ensure infrastructure is testable, repeatable, and compliant

6. Observability and Platform Metrics

• Define and validate platform health indicators:
• Uptime, latency, error rates
• Resource utilisation and cost efficiency
• Ensure monitoring, logging, and alerting are:
• Complete and accurate
• Aligned to SLIs/SLOs

7. Resilience, Risk and Compliance Validation

• Validate platform behaviour against:
• NIST resilience principles
• DORA operational resilience requirements
• Execute:
• Disaster recovery testing
• Data replication validation
• Critical dependency failure scenarios

8. Platform Certification & Continuous Improvement

• Define criteria for production readiness of platform components
• Contribute to:
• Platform reference architectures
• Golden paths and reusable patterns
• Support incident analysis and drive platform improvements

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

1. Platform and Infrastructure

• Strong understanding of:
• Hybrid environments (on-prem + Azure)
• Networking fundamentals (routing, load balancing, OSI layers)
• Experience validating:
• Infrastructure deployments and configurations

2. Infrastructure as Code and Automation

• Hands-on experience with:
• Terraform
• Ability to:
• Validate IaC deployments
• Identify misconfigurations and drift

3. Platform Testing (Non-Functional Focus)

• Proven experience in:
• Performance, scalability, and resilience testing
• Ability to:
• Design failure scenarios and validate recovery behaviour

4. Systems and Low-Level Understanding

• Understanding of:
• Hardware and firmware basics
• OS-level configuration and runtime environments
• Awareness of:
• Storage and network path management concepts

5. Observability & Metrics

• Knowledge of:
• Platform SLIs/SLOs
• Monitoring and alerting principles

6. Resilience & Compliance

• Awareness of:
• NIST resilience frameworks
• DORA regulatory expectations
  

 

7. Quality Engineering 

• Working experience or good knowledge of at least one scripting language (e.g., PowerShell, Python, Bash) to support test automation, reporting, and evidence collection.
• Strong understanding of QE governance, risk-based testing, quality gates, and acceptance criteria definition.
• Good understanding of non-functional testing (NFT), NFR validation, risk assessment, and operational readiness testing
• Good understanding of audit-ready documentation, evidence collection, traceability, and QA sign-off processes.
• Good understanding of defect management lifecycle, including defect logging, severity/priority classification, triage, root cause analysis, retesting, closure, and quality reporting.
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies and cross-functional team collaboration.
• Experience in designing and executing software test cases and reporting on testing progress, risks, and defect status.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with:
• Kubernetes (AKS or on-prem clusters)
• Application Gateway / Traffic Manager / Load Balancers
• Chaos engineering practices
• Exposure to:
• Observability tools (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Azure Monitor)
• Knowledge of:
• Security best practices (Zero Trust, network isolation, Key Vault)
• Experience in:
• Platform Engineering or SRE environments

 

What Success Looks Like

In this role, you will help ensure the reliability, resilience, and performance of EBRD's hybrid platform estate. Success will be measured by your ability to:

• Deliver reliable and repeatable platform deployments across on-premises and Azure environments.
• Strengthen platform resilience through performance, failover, and disaster recovery testing.
• Identify and prevent infrastructure risks and misconfigurations through automation and proactive quality engineering.
• Improve platform observability, operational readiness, and overall quality.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud, and DevOps teams to embed quality across the platform lifecycle.
  
  
  

 

What is it like to work at the EBRD? / About EBRD 

 

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.  

 

At EBRD, our Values – Inclusiveness, Innovation, Trust, and Responsibility – are at the heart of how we work. We bring these to life through our Workplace Behaviours: listening well and speaking up, collaborating smartly, acting decisively with full commitment, and simplifying to amplify our impact. These principles shape our culture and define our success. We seek individuals who not only share these values but are also committed to embedding them in their daily work, fostering a positive and high-performing environment. 

 

The EBRD environment provides you with: 

• Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in. 
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity. Our workforce reflects a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, bringing fresh ideas, energy, and innovation and enhancing our ability to serve our clients, shareholders, and counterparties effectively.

• We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements and believe we operate at our best when collaborating 3 days a week in person (minimum).

• An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital transformation at the heart of what we do. 
• A workplace that prioritises employee wellbeing and provides a comprehensive suite of competitive benefits. 

 

Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does.  As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic background or disability.   

 

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).