Devops Engineer

Job Title : Azure DevOps Engineer

Experience Required : 7+ Years

Work Mode : Remote / Hybrid

Location : Remote

Notice Period : Immediate Joiners / Serving Candidates (within 20 days only)

Interview Mode : Face-to-Face or Virtual

Open Positions : 2

Job Description :

We are seeking an experienced Azure DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of relevant experience in DevOps practices, especially around Azure infrastructure, deployment automation, and CI/CD pipeline management. The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps, GitHub, YAML, and Azure services, along with solid communication and coordination capabilities.

Mandatory Skills : Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, YAML, Bicep, Azure services (App Gateway, WAF, NSG, CosmosDB, Storage Accounts), Unix scripting, and Azure Fundamentals certification.

Key Responsibilities :

• Manage deployments for Dynamics 365 and proxy applications
• Run and maintain ADO pipelines and GitHub Actions
• Ensure proper status updates on ADO Boards and deployed work items
• Coordinate with QA teams to execute smoke testing post-deployment
• Communicate deployment progress across team channels effectively
• Monitor deployment cycles, approval gates, logs, and alerts
• Ensure smooth integration of infrastructure and DevOps practices

Mandatory Skills :

• Minimum 7+ years in DevOps, with strong experience in Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Proven expertise in building pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Proficiency in Bicep, YAML scripting, and Azure Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
• Hands-on with Azure services like :
• App Gateway, WAF, NSG, CosmosDB, Storage Accounts.
• vNet, Managed Identity, KeyVault, AppConfig, App Insights.
• Basic Azure Fundamentals Certification (AZ-900).
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Nice to Have :

• Experience in managing large enterprise-scale deployments.
• Familiarity with branching strategies and monitoring tools.
• Exposure to Approval Gates and Deployment Governance.

Role Purpose:

As a DevOps ,  You should be strong in both the Dev and Ops part of DevOps. We are looking for someone who has a deep understanding of systems architecture, understands core CS concepts well, and is able to reason about system behaviour rather than merely working with the toolset of the day. We believe that only such a person will be able to set a compelling direction for the team and excite those around them. 

If you are someone who fits the description above, you will find that the rewards are well worth the high bar. Being one of the early hires of the Bangalore office, you will have a significant impact on the culture and the team; you will work with a set of energetic and hungry peers who will challenge you, and you will have considerable international exposure and opportunity for impact across departments.

Responsibilities

1. Deployment, management, and administration of web services in a public cloud environment
2. Design and develop solutions for deploying highly secure, highly available, performant and scalable services in elastically provisioned environments
3. Design and develop continuous integration and continuous deployment solutions from development through production
4. Own all operational aspects of running web services including automation, monitoring and alerting, reliability and performance
5. Have direct impact on running a business by thinking about innovative solutions to operational problems
6. Drive solutions and communication for production impacting incidents
7. Running technical projects and being responsible for project-level deliveries
8. Partner well with engineering and business teams across continents

Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or closely related field
2. 4 - 6 years professional experience in DevOps, with at least 1/2 years in Linux / Unix
3. Very strong in core CS concepts around operating systems, networks, and systems architecture including web services
4. Strong scripting experience in Python and Bash
5. Deep experience administering, running and deploying AWS based services
6. Solid experience with Terraform, Packer and Docker or their equivalents
7. Knowledge of security protocols and certificate infrastructure.
8. Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills 
9. Broad experience with cloud hosted applications including virtualization platforms, relational and non relational data stores, reverse proxies, and orchestration platforms
10. Curiosity, continuous learning and drive to continually raise the bar
11. Strong partnering and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

1. Past experience as a senior developer or application architect strongly preferred.
2. Experience building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
3. Experience with Zookeeper, Consul, HAProxy, ELK-Stack, Kafka, PostgreSQL.
4. Experience working with, and preferably designing, a system compliant to any security framework (PCI DSS, ISO 27000, HIPPA, SOC 2, ...)
5. Experience with AWS orchestration services such as ECS and EKS.
6. Experience working with AWS ML pipeline services like AWS Sagemak

Position Summary

DevOps is a Department of Horizontal Digital, within which we have 3 different practices.

1. Cloud Engineering
2. Build and Release
3. Managed Services

This opportunity is for Cloud Engineering role who also have some experience with Infrastructure migrations, this will be a complete hands-on job, with focus on migrating clients workloads to the cloud, reporting to the Solution Architect/Team Lead and along with that you are also expected to work on different projects for building out the Sitecore Infrastructure from scratch.

We are Sitecore Platinum Partner and majority of the Infrastructure work that we are doing is for Sitecore.

Sitecore is a .Net Based Enterprise level Web CMS, which can be deployed on On-Prem, IaaS, PaaS and Containers.

So, most of our DevOps work is currently planning, architecting and deploying infrastructure for Sitecore.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• This role includes ownership of technical, commercial and service elements related to cloud migration and Infrastructure deployments.
• Person who will be selected for this position will ensure high customer satisfaction delivering Infra and migration projects.
• Candidate must expect to work in parallel across multiple projects, along with that candidate must also have a fully flexible approach to working hours.
• Candidate should keep him/herself updated with the rapid technological advancements and developments that are taking place in the industry.
• Along with that candidate should also have a know-how on Infrastructure as a code, Kubernetes, AKS/EKS, Terraform, Azure DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent qualification.
• Total work experience of 6 to 8 Years.
• Total migration experience of 4 to 6 Years.
• Multiple Cloud Background (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Implementation knowledge of VMs, Vnet,
• Know-how of Cloud Readiness and Assessment
• Good Understanding of 6 R's of Migration.
• Detailed understanding of the cloud offerings
• Ability to Assess and perform discovery independently for any cloud migration.
• Working Exp. on Containers and Kubernetes.
• Good Knowledge of Azure Site Recovery/Azure Migrate/Cloud Endure
• Understanding on vSphere and Hyper-V Virtualization.
• Working experience with Active Directory.
• Working experience with AWS Cloud formation/Terraform templates.
• Working Experience of VPN/Express route/peering/Network Security Groups/Route Table/NAT Gateway, etc.
• Experience of working with CI/CD tools like Octopus, Teamcity, Code Build, Code Deploy, Azure DevOps, GitHub action.
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery Implementations, taking into the consideration of RTO and RPO aspects.
• Candidates with AWS/Azure/GCP Certifications will be preferred.

Required Skills and Experience 

• 4+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 4+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.
• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.