Azure DevOps Lead

Primary Skills: 

Observability - ELK (Elactic/Kibana), Prometheus, Grafana, PromQL

Software and automation - Java, Python/Shell/Bash, Rest-SOAP API, docker containerization, Kubernetes, Kafka

Reliability and DR engineering - Distributed architecture and distributed system fundamentals, micro services, and event-driven architecture.

Cross-team coordination, incident triage and resolution, leadership and stakeholder management.

Secondary Skills:

Lang-chain, Langraph, RAG, MCP

Experience with working on LLM's and integrating with the existing applications

Python - FastAPI

Cache - Redis

Program Details:

Design, build, and ship LLM-powered and agentic product features that enhance the team efforts and outcomes.

Build agentic AI systems that reason over context, invoke tools, take real actions, and recover gracefully from failure.

Work on integrating the existing AI tools and should know major AI frameworks and libraries. 

Own service reliability and operational governance by defining SLA's, managing error budgets, and reporting reliability (MTTD, MTTR) to leadership for prioritization, risk decisions and planning.

Architect and continuously optimize the observability of platform using Kibana/Elastic (ELF) along with other observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana (dashboards, metrics, alert lifecycle), improving detection quality, reducing noise/toil, and enabling faster triage and measurable uptime improvements.

Engineer advance alerting and automation capabilities with Kibana alerting and anomaly detections and integrating response workflows (routing, runbooks, remediation scripts) to standardize on-call execution and accelerate restoration of services.

Lead incident response for customer-impacting issues across teams-coordination, communications, service restoration, and blameless RCA-then corrective actions that prevent recurrence and reduce operational risk.

Design, automate and validate Disaster Recovery and failover for critical services/journeys (RTO/RPO alignment, DR Drills), ensuring resiliency under failure scenarios and improving recovery.

Consult and partner with application teams by providing production readiness inputs (Resiliency patterns, availability, performance/capacity considerations) and driving platform enhancements that improve stability while optimizing infrastructure and observability spend.

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Roles and Responsibilities:

· Experience Required 3+ yrs in Devops.

· Position - 1

· Hands-on experience on Azure.

. Hands on experience on IIS

· Ability to design a good cloud solution.

· Strong Linux troubleshooting, Shell Scripting, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins Skills.

· Design and implement the CI/CD pipeline following the best industry practices using open-source tools.

· Use knowledge and research to constantly modernize our applications and infrastructure stacks.

· Be a team player and strong problem-solver to work with a diverse team.

· Having good communication skills.

Candidate must be from a product-based company with experience handling large-scale production traffic.

2. Candidate must have strong Linux expertise with hands-on production troubleshooting and working knowledge of databases and middleware (Mongo, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Kafka).

3. Candidate must have solid experience with Kubernetes.

4. Candidate should have strong knowledge of configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, and Chef / Puppet. Add on- Prometheus & Grafana etc.

5. Candidate must be an individual contributor with strong ownership.

6. Candidate must have hands-on experience with DATABASE MIGRATIONS and observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.

7. Candidate must have working knowledge of Go/Python and Java.

8. Candidate should have working experience on Cloud platform - AWS

9. Candidate should have Minimum 1.5 years stability per organization, and a clear reason for relocation

Candidate must be from a product-based company with experience handling large-scale production traffic.

2. Minimum 6 yrs of experience working as a DevOps/Infrastructure Consultant

3. Candidate must have 2 years of experience as an lead (handling team of 3 to 4 members atleast)

4. Own end-to-end infrastructure right from non-prod to prod environment including self-managed

5. Candidate must have Self experience in database migration from scratch

6. Must have a firm hold on the container orchestration tool Kubernetes

7. Should have expertise in configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef / Puppet

8. Understanding programming languages like GO/Python, and Java

9. Working on databases like Mongo/Redis/Cassandra/Elasticsearch/Kafka.

10. Working experience on Cloud platform -AWS

11. Candidate should have Minimum 1.5 years stability per organization, and a clear reason for relocation

Role Overview:

As a DevOps Engineer (L2), you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and optimizing infrastructure. You will take ownership of automating processes, improving system reliability, and supporting the development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Lead efforts in implementing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate repetitive tasks and develop robust monitoring solutions.
• Ensure the security and compliance of systems, including IAM, VPCs, and network configurations.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across development, staging, and production environments.
• Mentor and guide L1 engineers on best practices.
• Stay updated on emerging DevOps tools and technologies.
• Manage cloud resources efficiently using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.
• Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or Azure DevOps.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with hands-on experience in deployments, migrations, and optimizations.
• Strong expertise in containerization (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Deep understanding of system security, networking, and load balancing.
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving mindset.
• Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus.

What We Offer:

• Opportunity to work with a cutting-edge tech stack in a product-first company.
• Collaborative and growth-oriented environment.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Freedom to innovate and contribute to impactful projects.

• 3-6 years of relevant work experience in a DevOps role.
• Deep understanding of Amazon Web Services or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Proven record of infra automation and programming skills in any of these languages - Python, Ruby, Perl, Javascript.
• Implement DevOps Industry best practices and the application of procedures to achieve a continuously deployable system
• Continuously improve and increase the capabilities of the CI/CD pipeline
• Support engineering teams in the implementation of life-cycle infrastructure solutions and documentation operations in order to meet the engineering departments quality and standards
• Participate in production outages and handle complex issues and works towards resolution