Azure DevOps Engineer

Job Title : DevOps Engineer

Experience : 7+ Years

Working Hours : 3:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET

Duration : 12–18 Months

Engagement : Contract

Freelance : Not Applicable

BGV : Required

Role Overview :

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and optimize DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and cloud-native delivery platforms. The role will focus on enabling secure, reliable, and efficient software delivery while improving infrastructure automation, release processes, platform reliability, and operational resilience.

Mandatory Skills :

DevOps, CI/CD, Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Docker, PowerShell / Python / Bash, Automation, Monitoring & Observability, DevSecOps, IaC, Troubleshooting, and Production Support.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for enterprise application delivery and release management.
• Develop deployment automation frameworks to improve release quality, consistency, scalability, and efficiency.
• Administer Kubernetes and containerized environments and supporting orchestration platforms.
• Improve build, test, deployment, and release workflows for development teams.
• Integrate automated testing, security scanning, validation, and compliance controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions for platform and application environments.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures, production issues, and platform incidents; perform root cause analysis.
• Develop automation scripts and tools using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation practices to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
• Collaborate with Cloud, Infrastructure, Security, and Application teams to deliver scalable and resilient solutions.
• Maintain deployment standards, release procedures, technical documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Apply DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE best practices to improve delivery speed and platform reliability.
• Evaluate emerging DevOps technologies and recommend improvements.
• Mentor team members on DevOps methodologies, automation, and platform engineering practices.
• Act as an escalation point for critical deployment, infrastructure, and platform issues.

Required Technical Skills :

1. DevOps & CI/CD :

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• Strong experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and release management.
• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitHub Actions, or equivalent platforms.
• Strong understanding of Git, branching strategies, release management, and deployment methodologies.

2. Containers & Cloud :

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker/containerization.
• Understanding of cloud-native application architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience supporting production-grade containerized environments.

3. Automation & IaC :

• Strong proficiency in PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience developing automation frameworks and deployment tooling.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concepts.
• Experience with Terraform, Bicep, or similar tools is preferred.

4. Monitoring & Reliability :

• Experience with monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Experience supporting highly available and resilient production systems.
• Knowledge of SRE practices is preferred.

5. Security & DevSecOps :

• Understanding of DevSecOps and secure software delivery practices.
• Experience integrating vulnerability scanning, security controls, and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of IAM, secrets management, and access control within DevOps environments.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Terraform/Bicep or other IaC tools.
• Knowledge of SRE and platform engineering practices.
• Relevant Azure, Kubernetes, Cloud, or DevOps certifications.

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

Primary (Must Have):

 5-7 years of total experience in IT industry

 Necessary to have exposure to Azure Cloud

 5-7 years of experience Build/Release and DevOps combined for Saas/Web/Desktop applications

 5-7 years working with CI / CD like Jenkins or Bamboo or other tools

 Experience in Kubernetes, Swarm and Docker

 Experience in working with Linux (Centos/Ubuntu)

 Experience with configuration and management tools (i.e. Terraform, Ansible, Salt)

 Experience in architecting, maintaining, and streamlining our automated build and release pipeline from code compilation, automated testing, to deploying releases to multiple environments

 You should be able to drive adoption of CI/CD, deployment automation, and release engineering standard methodologies

 Detail-oriented and great problem solver

 Comfortable giving feedback to team members and handling personal situations

 Excellent at multi-tasking and able to handle competing priorities

 Problem solving, digging into issues and owning tasks to completion

 Strong team player who is open to give and receive feedback

 A passion for technology and thrives in a dynamic environment with a focus on creative innovation over absolute completion

 Communication and presentation skills

Key Responsibilities:            

 Responsible for the continuous and on-time delivery of application releases supporting mission-critical services

 Support and improve our tools for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD). You can demonstrate measurable improvements in our delivery pipelines

 Responsible for navigating cloud solutions, on-premise solutions, and hybrid solutions

 Responsible for infrastructure as code (IaC) tooling

 Build automated release pipelines that package, test and deploy code

 Build out and maintain a suitable tracking dashboards and metrics

• 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

 Job Description:

• Job title : Senior DevOps Engineer (On-Premises Automation)        
• Experience: 8+ years
• Location: Chennai / Pune / Hyderabad / Bangalore
• Shift: UK Shift
• Work Mode: Onsite (WFO)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• This engagement automates end-to-end infrastructure build provisioning across on-prem and Azure. The team will build a shared ServiceNow-led intake, approval, orchestration, and closed-loop status model, using Jenkins/Ansible for on-prem builds and Azure DevOps/Terraform for cloud builds. Automation includes standards, security/compliance controls, scan gates, CMDB/change updates, and handover.              

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead secure and repeatable on-prem build provisioning pipelines
• Lead Jenkins CI/CD for automated on-prem provisioning and configuration.
• Create pipeline templates for VM/physical host, OS deployment, configuration, certification, and rollback.
• Embed hardened-image validation, scan gates, secrets handling, approvals, and audit evidence.
• Lead Ansible roles, PowerShell modules, test automation, and code reviews.
• Implement logging, monitoring, and root-cause analysis; support UAT and hypercare.       

Required Qualifications:

• 8–10 years in DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Jenkins
• Git, CI/CD
• Ansible, PowerShell
• Python, IaC
• security scanning, secrets management
• Windows/Linux.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer with 8+ years of professional experience to join our team. In this role, you will design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure and CI/CD processes.

You will collaborate closely with development, QA, and operations teams to deliver scalable, secure, automated, and reliable solutions on AWS.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Terraform, Git/GitHub, Jenkins, PowerShell, Python, AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Documents, and Active Directory (AD) administration, along with a passion for automation, efficiency, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub.
• Use AWS Systems Manager (SSM) to support operational automation and system administration.
• Automate system tasks and administrative workflows using PowerShell and other scripting languages.
• Create, maintain, and execute custom SSM Documents for configuration management, patching, automation, and troubleshooting.
• Manage and administer Active Directory (AD), including users, groups, permissions, policies, authentication, and integration with AWS services.
• Implement and manage version-control workflows in Git and GitHub.
• Ensure infrastructure and deployment processes follow best practices for security, reliability, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production systems to ensure high availability, performance, and reliability.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve software delivery processes and release management.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the development of DevOps standards and best practices.

Required Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of professional experience, including at least 4 years in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, EKS, Lambda, and related services.
• Proven expertise in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience administering both Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub.
• Proficiency with Git workflows and source-code management best practices.
• Strong PowerShell scripting skills; familiarity with Python and/or Bash is a plus.
• Experience with AWS Systems Manager (SSM), including creating and managing SSM Documents.
• Hands-on experience managing Active Directory, including users, groups, policies, authentication, permissions, and AWS integration.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, security, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and decision-making skills.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Amazon EKS.
• Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools, such as Amazon CloudWatch, New Relic, and Sumo Logic.
• An AWS certification, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Who You Are

• You are eager to learn new technologies and continuously improve your skills.
• You make sound decisions and take ownership of your work.
• You are proactive, self-motivated, and comfortable taking initiative.
• You are a strong communicator who enjoys collaborating with cross-functional teams.
• You are committed to improving processes, automation, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Job Description: DevOps Engineer

Experience: 5–8 Years

Mandatory Skills: GitHub Actions, Harness, Scripting

Job Summary:

We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience in GitHub Actions, Harness, and scripting to manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines, automate deployment processes, and improve software delivery efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Harness.
• Automate build, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Develop and maintain scripts using Python, Shell, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Manage source code repositories, version control, and deployment workflows.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures and resolve deployment issues.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and infrastructure teams to streamline releases.
• Implement DevOps best practices for automation, reliability, and continuous delivery.
• Monitor pipeline performance and continuously improve deployment efficiency.

Required Skills:

• Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions.
• Experience in Harness CI/CD for pipeline creation and deployment automation.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Shell, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Good understanding of CI/CD concepts and DevOps practices.
• Experience with Git and version control systems.
• Knowledge of build, release, and deployment processes.

Good to Have:

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.

Designation: DevOps Engineer / CI/CD Engineer

Tasks & Responsibilities: (Major task and role person will have to perform – list all the relevant points)    

Together with the Business Cloud Services team, you will design, deploy, and operate a cloud‑native Kubernetes PaaS platform on Azure, ensuring high availability, security, and operational excellence.

Your main duties include:

·      Drive cloud‑native automation and self‑service capabilities, ensuring platform security, availability, and disaster recovery readiness

·      Design, operate, and continuously improve Kubernetes clusters and PaaS environments on Azure / AKS

·      Collaborate closely with development teams on deployment strategies, operational requirements, and platform integration

·      Review and maintain infrastructure‑as‑code configurations, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud‑native deployments

·      Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps

·      Implement and operate infrastructure‑as‑code solutions using Terraform, Helm, and Ansible

·      Manage containerized workloads and orchestration across cloud‑native environments

·      Set up, operate, and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting stacks using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana

·      Coordinate with support teams on platform incidents, escalations, and post‑incident analysis

·      Contribute to incident response, continuous improvement, and operational stability

·      Support the development and refinement of DevOps practices, runbooks, and operational standards

·      Actively contributes to improving developer experience and platform reliability

Education & Trainings + Certifications: (Basic & Professional)

·      Bachelor’s degree (Preferably engineering graduate)

·      Azure Solutions Architect Expert Certification is a plus.

·      (optional) ITIL Foundation 

Technical know-how: (Mention the technology on which person must be experienced)

Mandatory

o  Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field

o  5+ years of relevant professional experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles

o  Strong Linux system administration skills for operating production‑grade cloud‑native platforms

o  Proven experience with Microsoft Azure, including AKS and Azure DevOps tooling

o  Strong expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster operations, RBAC, networking, and storage

o  Hands‑on experience with container technologies such as Docker and container registries

o  Proficiency with Terraform, Helm, Ansible, and PowerShell

o  Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or equivalent tools

o  Cloud‑native monitoring and observability experience using Prometheus, Grafana, and alerting pipelines

o  Solid understanding of security and compliance requirements such as PCI DSS and SOC2

o  Scripting skills for automation and tooling (Bash, Python, PowerShell)

o  Practical experience using Git for version control

o  Excellent communication skills in English (Spanish is a plus)

o  Automation‑first mindset and strong collaboration skills within Agile teams

Good to know

Principles of Agile Software Development.

·      GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps

·      Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS / AKS / GKE)

·      Configuration Management: Ansible

Key Responsibilities

• Automate application deployments from Bitbucket to servers using CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and manage scalable, highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Implement Auto Scaling, ELB, and Route 53 for traffic management and high availability.
• Work with AWS services including IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, EC2, and other cloud services.
• Build and manage Docker containers and server images.
• Deploy and manage applications using Kubernetes.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Develop automation scripts using Python and Bash.
• Implement monitoring and logging using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK.
• Integrate security and compliance practices into CI/CD pipelines.
• Optimize infrastructure for security, scalability, performance, and cost.

Required Skills

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps or a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of AWS beyond EC2.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins or similar CI/CD tools.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Good understanding of Terraform/IaC and automation.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Bash scripting.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps, security, and compliance best practices.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Work Mode: WORK FROM OFFICE

Interview Mode: Virtual

Role Descriptions:

Exp Range: 5 - 8 years

City Locations: Bengaluru

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