Azure Cloud Developer/Engineer

🚀 Hiring: Senior Azure Platform Engineer | Azure | Terraform | Kubernetes

📍 Location: India

💼 Employment: Full-Time | Long-Term

🎯 Experience: 10+ Years | 8+ Years Hands-on Azure

🔑 What We’re Looking For

▪️ Strong expertise in Azure Cloud Platform & Landing Zone Architecture

▪️ Advanced hands-on experience with Terraform & reusable IaC modules

▪️ Expertise in Kubernetes, Helm & container platforms

▪️ Strong understanding of Azure Networking, Entra ID, RBAC & Azure Policy

▪️ Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions / Azure Pipelines & CI/CD

▪️ Hands-on GitOps & ArgoCD experience

▪️ Strong observability skills with Prometheus, Grafana & Azure Monitor

▪️ Experience designing and supporting microservices architectures

▪️ Knowledge of security, policy-as-code and IaC security scanning

▪️ Exposure to Azure Arc / Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI is a plus

Cloud Expertise(Azure):

• Strong understanding of cloud services and resources like AI services, webapp, database, including monitoring tools like Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Arm template / Bicep/Terraform.

• Deep understanding of Networking concepts(DNS, DHCP , Hub and Spoke).

• Understanding on policies and security aspects of cloud.

Kubernetes & Helm:

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as pods, services, ingress, config maps, and secrets.

• Understand of Kubernetes templates and its deployment.

• Proficiency with Helm/ Kustomize or equivalent for Kubernetes package management and deployment automation.

• Implement Kubernetes best practices, including security, networking, and scaling.

• Concepts of Docker and Containers

CI/CD & Programming:

• Hands-on experience with YAML-based CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).

• Familiarity with scripting and automation tools such as PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Bash.

• Proven skill in python programming and concepts.

Monitoring and Observability:

Expertise in creating and managing Grafana dashboards for visualizing metrics and logs.

• Knowledge of Log Analytics & Azure Application Insights for performance monitoring and tracing.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Azure Cloud / DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Azure PaaS services, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure DevOps. The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting highly available and scalable cloud applications and infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.

The ideal candidate should have strong experience in CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, Azure networking, security, monitoring, and automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Azure PaaS services including App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Service Bus, Event Grid, and related services.
• Design, configure, and administer Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.
• Manage Kubernetes workloads, deployments, services, ingress, namespaces, secrets, config maps, and autoscaling.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Develop and maintain build and release pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or ARM/Bicep templates.
• Build and manage Docker containers and container registries using Azure Container Registry (ACR).
• Implement deployment strategies such as rolling, blue-green, and canary deployments where required.
• Configure Azure networking components such as VNets, subnets, NSGs, private endpoints, load balancers, Application Gateway, and Azure DNS.
• Implement Azure security best practices including Managed Identity, RBAC, Key Vault, secrets management, and network security.
• Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Container Insights.
• Automate infrastructure and operational activities using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash, or Python.
• Troubleshoot application, container, Kubernetes, pipeline, networking, and Azure infrastructure issues.
• Work closely with development, architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions.
• Participate in production deployments, incident management, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization.

Required Skills

Azure

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Azure PaaS services such as:
• Azure App Service
• Azure Functions
• Azure Storage
• Azure SQL
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Service Bus
• Azure Event Grid
• Azure API Management
• Good understanding of Azure networking, IAM/RBAC, security, and governance.

AKS / Kubernetes

• Strong hands-on experience with AKS.
• Kubernetes architecture and administration.
• Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Namespaces.
• Helm and Kubernetes manifests.
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and cluster autoscaling.
• Container troubleshooting and performance

• Strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Good understanding of Azure services such as Compute, Storage, Event Hub, Event Subscription, Storage Queue, and PaaS services.
• Basic understanding of Azure AI Foundry and AI-related Azure service setup.
• Good Azure networking basics: VNet, subnet, routing, and basic troubleshooting.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform, especially:
• Terraform state
• plan / apply
• troubleshooting failures
• migration risks
• Terraform Enterprise concepts
• Strong Python coding capability, not just basic scripting.
• Experience using Python for API integration, automation, JSON/YAML handling, and internal tooling.
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures.
• Comfortable with YAML and JSON.
• Ability to troubleshoot Azure infrastructure/platform issues.
• Ability to collect logs/evidence and coordinate with network/app/Microsoft support teams.
• Basic awareness of agentic AI / LLM concepts.
• Awareness of security and cost best practices.

Good to Have Skills

• Hands-on experience with Harness.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform Enterprise.
• Exposure to LangGraph / LangChain.
• Exposure to agentic AI workflows or skill creation.
• Exposure to Claude or enterprise LLM integrations.
• Knowledge of Azure ML Workspace, model registry, and managed endpoints.
• MLOps / LLMOps knowledge.
• FinOps / Azure cost optimization experience.
• Azure certifications: AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400, AZ-500.

Screening Priority:

Azure Cloud + Terraform + Python Coding + CI/CD Troubleshooting + YAML/JSON + Basic Agentic AI Awareness

Role: DevOps Infrastructure

Location: Pune

Experience: 8–12 years

Job Summary:

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Infrastructure professional with strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, cloud architecture, automation, and infrastructure engineering.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and manage scalable, secure Azure infrastructure and platform solutions.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Automate infrastructure using Terraform, Bicep, or ARM and scripting with PowerShell/Azure CLI/Python/Bash.
• Work with Azure networking, Entra ID, RBAC/PIM, storage, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Support containerized workloads using Docker and AKS.
• Define cloud standards, governance, reference architectures, and security best practices.
• Implement monitoring, observability, DevSecOps, and policy-as-code practices.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, and application teams on hybrid/multi-cloud initiatives.

Must-Have Skills:

• 3+ years hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Strong DevOps experience with CI/CD, Git, and Infrastructure as Code.
• 2+ years in infrastructure design, platform engineering, or architecture.
• Strong understanding of Azure Well-Architected Framework, networking, IAM, security, and governance.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Terraform/Bicep, Docker, and preferably AKS.

Preferred: Azure/Azure DevOps certifications, Terraform, ITIL, CISSP, multi-cloud/hybrid cloud, GitOps, and DevSecOps experience.

We are looking for a hands-on Azure DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer to manage enterprise Azure environments, automate infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, and support cloud modernization initiatives.

🔑 Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement & support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

• Perform TFS / Azure DevOps Server → Azure DevOps Services migration

• Build & manage Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Support Azure cloud infrastructure, networking, security, monitoring & production environments

• Drive cloud migration, application modernization & platform transformation initiatives

• Work with Terraform, containerization, DevSecOps & cloud automation

• Troubleshoot infrastructure/deployment issues and support incident & on-call operations

• Create technical documentation, runbooks and deployment standards

🎯 Mandatory Requirements

✅ AZ-204 – Azure Developer Associate – Mandatory

✅ 5–8 years total IT experience

✅ 3+ years hands-on Azure DevOps / Azure Infrastructure experience

✅ Strong experience in CI/CD & Azure DevOps

✅ Hands-on experience with TFS / Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps Services migration

✅ Strong understanding of Azure cloud infrastructure & cloud operations

✅ Experience with IaC, provisioning & infrastructure automation

✅ Exposure to cloud/data migration and application modernization

✅ Experience supporting Azure networking, security & monitoring

✅ Experience in production support / managed services / cloud operations

✅ Willingness to work UK/US shifts and participate in on-call support

⭐ Preferred / Optional

• AZ-400 – Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert

• AZ-104 – Azure Administrator Associate

• HashiCorp Terraform Associate

• Container platforms, orchestration & DevSecOps experience

🎓 Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering or related field.

Azure DevOps Engineer

Experience

5-10 years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering roles.

Priority 1 – Must Have (Hands-On)

Azure Cloud Platform

·        Strong hands-on experience supporting Azure workloads in production environments.

·        Experience designing, building and supporting Azure infrastructure using Terraform.

·        Good understanding of Azure networking and connectivity patterns.

·        Experience supporting:

Ø AKS

Ø Application Gateway

Ø Azure Traffic Manager

Ø Key Vault

Ø Azure Monitor / Log Analytics

Ø Managed Identities

Ø Service Principals

Ø Private Endpoints

Ø VNets, NSGs and Route Tables

Kubernetes / AKS

• Strong practical experience operating and supporting AKS.
• Ability to troubleshoot:

Ø Pod failures

Ø Ingress issues

Ø DNS issues

Ø SSL/TLS certificate issues

Ø Network routing issues

Ø Performance and availability incidents

• Experience with:

Ø Helm

Ø Ingress Controllers

Ø Cluster upgrades

Ø Scaling

Ø Monitoring

Terraform

·        Strong hands-on experience writing and maintaining Terraform.

·        Experience creating reusable modules.

·        Experience managing:

·        State files

·        Remote backends

·        Environment promotion

·        Infrastructure lifecycle

Linux & Scripting

·        Strong Linux administration fundamentals.

·        Practical experience troubleshooting production issues.

·        Bash scripting mandatory.

·        Python desirable.

Application Support / Troubleshooting

Must be comfortable supporting business applications end-to-end.

 Priority 2 – Highly Desirable

GitHub & DevOps Platform

Hands-on experience with:

·        GitHub Enterprise

·        GitHub Actions

·        Shared workflows

·        Reusable pipelines

·        Repository onboarding

·        Branch protections

·        GitHub security features

Experience supporting:

·        Runner issues

·        Disk space issues

·        Network connectivity issues

·        Dependency failures

·        Self-hosted runners lifecycle management

API Management

Pipeline failures

GitOps

Experience with:

·        ArgoCD

·        GitOps deployment models

·        Kubernetes deployment automation

Monitoring & Observability

Experience working with:

·        Prometheus

·        Grafana

·        Azure Monitor

·        Log Analytics

·        Application Insights

Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (CSRE) – Azure

About Searce:

Searce is an AI-native, engineering-led modern technology consultancy that empowers

clients to futurify their businesses by delivering real, intelligent business outcomes. As a

trusted partner for over 3,000 clients globally, Searce specializes in cloud modernization,

data engineering, applied AI, and robust cloud platform security. Driven by a "HAPPIER"

cultural mindset and our proprietary evlos problem-solving framework, we eliminate

bureaucratic fluff to build working prototypes fast and scale enterprise production

environments intelligently. We don't just fix systems; we leverage multi-cloud technologies

to transform client operations into distinct competitive advantages.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a high-caliber Senior or Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (CSRE) to

architect, secure, and stabilize next-generation hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Operating at the intersection of infrastructure design, security compliance, and production

operations, you will serve as the technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) across GCP, Azure,

and AWS.

Whether optimizing a microservice mesh on GKE, tuning autoscaling on AKS, or driving a

massive disaster recovery drill across AWS regions, your focus will be absolute reliability. For

the Lead path, you will couple this deep engineering toolkit with stakeholder management

and mentorship to drive an elite operational culture.

Experience & Level Expectation:

Years of Experience: 3 to 10 years of intensive, hands-on production operations

experience in a dedicated DevOps, Cloud Platform Engineering, or SRE role.

Associate level (3-5 Years): Expected to show flawless execution of IaC, advanced

triaging of infrastructure failures, and ownership of the CI/CD and deployment

lifecycles.

Intermediate level (5-10 Years): Expected to take architectural ownership, serve as

primary Incident Commander for complex outages, design cross-cloud governance

frameworks, and act as a reliable bridge between technical teams and client

leadership.

Key Responsibilities & Role Expectations:

Multi-Cloud Platforms & Orchestration: Design, configure, and maintain

production-grade Kubernetes clusters across major platforms (AKS).

Manage advanced network routing, service meshes (e.g., Istio), and multi-tenant

isolation.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & GitOps: Build declarative, enterprise-grade, reusable

infrastructure components using Terraform or Crossplane. Standardize automated

environment provisioning to eliminate configuration drift across multi-branch

environments.

Incident Management & Reliability (SRE): Own and optimize the production on-call

rotation. Lead rapid mitigation strategies for Sev-1/Sev-2 system outages, reducing

Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) through centralized log and metric correlation.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Facilitate rigorous, blameless post-incident reviews to

identify core architectural vulnerabilities and establish long-term fixes preventing

recurrence.

Lifecycle, Patching & Upgrades: Plan and execute zero-downtime cluster upgrades,

operating system patching strategies (Linux/Windows), database lifecycle updates,

and multi-region Disaster Recovery (DR) failover drills.

Core Core Operations & Legacy Integration: Manage enterprise-level hybrid

networking architecture (VPCs, Firewalls, Load Balancers, DNS routing, and DHCP

configurations) while effectively connecting cloud native services to legacy

infrastructures like Active Directory.

Security & Governance: Embed Zero Trust policies, secure secrets management

(Secrets Manager/Key Vault), and continuous vulnerability patching into the

automated SDLC pipeline.

Required Technical Skills:

- Microsoft Azure: Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Azure Active Directory, Azure Update Management.

- Containers & Orchestration

• Production-level management of GKE, AKS, and EKS.
• Advanced mastery of Docker, Helm, Kubernetes StatefulSets, Pod Disruption

Key Responsibilities: 

Design, develop, and maintain full stack applications using Azure, React, Node.js, C#, and .NET. Build and manage CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment and automate testing processes. 

Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform to manage and provision resources in the Azure environment. Ensure application scalability, security, and performance across all layers of the stack. 

Work closely with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications. 

Troubleshoot, debug, and enhance existing applications to optimize performance. 

Implement best practices for cloud security, data protection, and compliance within Azure services. 

Conduct code reviews and provide technical mentorship to junior developers as needed.

Required Skills & Qualifications: 

Experience: 5+ years of full stack development experience, with a strong focus on Azure cloud. 

Frontend: Proficient with React.js, building and optimizing web interfaces. 

Backend: Solid knowledge of Node.js, C#, and .NET for building robust backend applications. 

Cloud Infrastructure: Experience with Azure services, deployment, and scaling applications on Azure. 

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Hands-on experience with Terraform for Azure resource management. 

CI/CD: Proficient in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or similar tools. 

Database: Familiarity with Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, or other databases for full stack applications. 

Best Practices: Strong understanding of software development best practices, including security, testing, and DevOps. 

Preferred Qualifications: Azure certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate or Azure Solutions Architect). 

Experience with other front-end frameworks, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), or serverless architecture. Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools like Jira or Confluence.

ZyrOps Technologies is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, migration, and modernization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and manage Azure Landing Zones using Hub & Spoke architecture.
• Manage Azure IaaS and PaaS environments.
• Implement Azure Policy, Monitor, Sentinel, and Defender for Cloud.
• Design and manage Azure Firewall, Load Balancer, Application Gateway, ExpressRoute, and VPN.
• Lead on-premises to Azure migration projects.
• Develop Disaster Recovery and application modernization solutions.
• Manage Azure Arc, AKS, and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD).
• Work with Azure VMware Solution (AVS) and Nutanix.
• Troubleshoot cloud infrastructure, networking, and security issues.
• Optimize cloud environments for performance, scalability, security, and cost.
• Collaborate with DevOps, infrastructure, security, and development teams.
• Maintain technical documentation and follow cloud architecture and security best practices.