Azure DevOps Engineer

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

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.

• 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

Work Mode: WORK FROM OFFICE

Interview Mode: Virtual

Role Descriptions:

Exp Range: 5 - 8 years

City Locations: Bengaluru

*Key Responsibilities*

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Desire candidate

• Candidate should have valid PF.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

3+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including IaaS, PaaS, networking, identity (Entra ID), and governance services.

2+ years of experience with DevOps tooling and practices, including CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM), and version control (Git).

2+ years' experience in infrastructure design, platform engineering, or architecture.

Strong proficiency with automation and scripting — PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python, or Bash.

Solid understanding of containerisation (Docker) and familiarity with orchestration platforms (Azure Kubernetes Service).

Deep understanding of cloud architecture, deployment patterns, and management best practices, including the Azure Well-Architected Framework.

Experience defining standards, governance frameworks, and reference architectures for cloud platform consumption.

Strong knowledge of networking concepts, storage configurations, virtualisation technologies, and disaster recovery/backup design for hybrid environments.

Experience with Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts) or equivalent platforms.

Familiarity with identity and access management (IAM), including Entra ID, RBAC, PIM.

Strong understanding of security, compliance requirements, and IT governance frameworks (ITIL, COBIT, or similar).

Preferred

🚀 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

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

Build production-grade cloud infrastructure that powers enterprise applications with cutting-edge DevOps practices.

What you'll do:

• Design CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Containerize apps with Docker, deploy on Kubernetes clusters
• Manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Set up monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
• Cloud migrations (AWS EC2, EKS, RDS → GCP equivalent)
• Optimize costs and performance for live production systems

What we need:

• Basic Python/Bash scripting
• Docker basics, Git workflows
• Cloud exposure (AWS/GCP/Azure free tier projects)
• Problem-solving mindset, eagerness to learn

Real impact:

• Deploy apps used by 1000+ daily users
• Work with senior DevOps engineers on client deliverables
• Build portfolio for FAANG-level interviews

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.

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Own end-to-end customer deployments across cloud, BYOC, air-gapped, and data-center environments
2. Deploy and operate production environments using Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform
3. Troubleshoot complex Kubernetes, networking, infrastructure, application, and deployment issues
4. Build and maintain observability, monitoring, alerting, and reliability
5. Handle customer escalations and drive issues to resolution with a "fix first, optimize later" mindset
6. Automate deployment and operational workflows
7. Work closely with Engineering, Product, and Customer teams to resolve production challenges
8. Participate in on-call and shift rotations, including critical customer escalations outside standard working hours

Ideal Candidate

1.Strong Hands-On DevOps Engineer Profile with deep Kubernetes and multi-cloud experience

2.Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 6+ years of hands-on DevOps experience, deploying, operating, troubleshooting, and scaling enterprise SaaS environments.

3.Mandatory (Experience 2): Must be able to own end-to-end customer deployments across cloud and enterprise environments (the role covers cloud, BYOC, air-gapped, and data-center deployments).

4.Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must have strong hands-on Kubernetes experience — troubleshooting, networking, workloads, storage, RBAC, and security

5.Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have hands-on Helm experience — deployment, templating, and troubleshooting.

6.Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must have hands-on Terraform experience — infrastructure provisioning and automation

7.Mandatory (Tech skill 4): Must have strong Linux and cloud infrastructure troubleshooting skills

8.Mandatory (Tech skill 5): Must have hands-on experience with observability — metrics, logs, traces, and alerting

9.Mandatory (Tech skill 6): Must have hands-on experience with one or more of AWS / GCP / Azure / OCI

10.Mandatory (Tech skill 7): Must have a strong incident-management and production-troubleshooting mindset, with a "fix first, optimize later" approach to customer escalations.

11.Mandatory (Company): B2B SaaS product companies

12.Preferred (Enterprise deployments): Prior experience with BYOC, air-gapped, or restricted-network environments.

13.Preferred (Observability tools): Prometheus / Grafana / OpenTelemetry / ELK / OpenSearch / Datadog

14.Preferred (Other): GitOps / CI-CD; Python or Golang for automation; multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure scaling; exposure to AI/ML pipeline deployments or iPaaS / reverse ETL connectors; SRE concepts (SLIs/SLOs, DR, high availability).