Senior Power Platform Engineer

Warren, NJ, United States (On-site) Contract (6 months 15 days) Published 5 hours ago ALM technical documentation Monitoring & Observability api integration Azure services CI/CD microsoft power platform Microsoft 365 dataverse Power Apps We are seeking a hands-on Senior Power Platform Engineer to administer, secure, govern, and enhance enterprise Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio.

This role owns platform operations, Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), automation, and agent lifecycle controls, partnering with Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Microsoft 365, and business teams to enable reliable services and responsible innovation.

Key Responsibilities

Power Platform Administration & Operations:

• Administer Power Platform Admin Center; manage environment provisioning, groups, lifecycle, security, Dataverse, connectors, and gateways across Development, Test/UAT, and Production.
• Monitor service health, performance, failures, usage, and capacity; assess Microsoft releases and maintain operational standards, runbooks, and support documentation.
• Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting across apps, flows, Power Fx, Dataverse, authentication, APIs, and connectivity; coordinate complex incidents with Microsoft Support.

Governance & Security:

• Implement DLP policies, connector classifications, environment controls, and least-privilege access in partnership with Security, Risk, Privacy, Compliance, and Architecture.
• Maintain resource inventory and ownership; identify and remediate orphaned, inactive, high-risk, or non-compliant apps, flows, connections, environments, and agents.
• Establish citizen-development and production standards, including governance of standard, premium, custom, and third-party connectors, auditing, and enterprise data access.

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM):

• Engineer controlled Development Test/UAT Production releases using Power Platform Pipelines and approved CI/CD tooling; prevent unapproved direct production changes.
• Manage solution packaging, managed/unmanaged solution standards, dependencies, environment variables, connection references, and deployment configurations.
• Implement source control, versioning, automated validation and testing, release approvals, rollback, migration, and change-management practices.

Copilot Studio & Agent Governance:

• Administer Copilot Studio and agent development, testing, promotion, publication, sharing, and retirement across approved enterprise channels.
• Govern agent tools and toolkits, knowledge sources, topics, actions, APIs, connectors, and flows; validate authentication, permissions, and least-privilege data access.
• Monitor agent performance, failures, usage, and capacity; partner with AI Governance and Security on responsible AI, data protection, auditing, and lifecycle controls.

Engineering, Automation & Enablement::

• Review Canvas and model-driven apps, cloud flows, and integrations for security, scalability, supportability, and performance; develop reusable patterns and components.
• Automate administration, compliance checks, ownership changes, and cleanup using PowerShell, PAC CLI, Power Platform APIs, Microsoft Graph, and Azure DevOps.
• Maintain logging, alerts, and dashboards; forecast Dataverse database, file, and log capacity and licensing needs, including premium connectors and AI consumption.
• Mentor makers, developers, and support teams; document standards and provide architecture guidance for integrations with enterprise systems, REST APIs, and Azure services.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years in enterprise technology, application/cloud engineering, or platform administration, including 4+ years of hands-on Microsoft Power Platform experience.
• Strong enterprise administration experience with Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, Power Platform Admin Center, environments, DLP, and connector governance.
• Demonstrated ALM delivery across Development, Test/UAT, and Production using solutions, Power Platform Pipelines, Azure DevOps, GitHub, or equivalent CI/CD tools.
• Working knowledge of Copilot Studio and enterprise agents; hands-on PowerShell, PAC CLI, REST API, custom connector, and enterprise integration experience.
• Strong understanding of Entra ID, authentication, authorization, service principals, and enterprise security; ability to troubleshoot across application, identity, data, and connectivity layers.
• Strong technical documentation, communication, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in a large, regulated enterprise; advanced Copilot Studio administration and AI/agent governance.
• Experience with Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Key Vault, Microsoft Graph, GitHub Actions, or Power BI administration and integration.
• Knowledge of privacy, information protection, data residency, retention, and auditing; relevant Microsoft Power Platform or Copilot Studio credentials preferred.

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $32.36/hour - $50.56/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information.

In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.