Lead Azure Devops Engineer

Job Requirements 

Required Experience 

5–6 years of hands-on experience in Salesforce DevOps, release engineering, or deployment 

management. 

Strong expertise in Salesforce deployment processes, including CI/CD pipelines. 

Significant hands-on experience with at least two of the following tools: Gearset, Copado, 

Flosum. 

Solid understanding of Salesforce architecture, metadata, and development lifecycle. 

Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and agile methodologies. 

Key Responsibilities 

Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines for Salesforce deployments using Gearset, 

Copado, or Flosum. 

Automate and optimize deployment processes to ensure efficient, reliable, and repeatable 

releases across Salesforce environments. 

Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to gather requirements and ensure 

alignment of deployment strategies. 

Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve deployment and release issues. 

Maintain documentation for deployment processes and provide training on best practices. 

Stay updated on the latest Salesforce DevOps tools, features, and best practices. 

Technical Skills 

Skill Area Requirements 

Deployment ToolsHands-on with Gearset, Copado, Flosum for Salesforce deployments 

CI/CDBuilding and maintaining pipelines, automation, and release management 

Version ControlProficiency with Git and related workflows 

Salesforce PlatformUnderstanding of metadata, SFDX, and environment management 

Scripting 

Familiarity with scripting (e.g., Shell, Python) for automation (preferred) 

Communication 

Strong written and verbal communication skills 

Preferred Qualifications 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. 

Certifications 

Salesforce certifications (e.g., Salesforce Administrator, Platform Developer I/II) are a plus. 

Experience with additional DevOps tools (Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps) is beneficial. 

Experience with Salesforce DX and deployment strategies for large-scale orgs. 

What You will do

We're looking for bright Senior DevOps engineers that are deeply experienced individual contributors and dynamic team leaders, to join our dedicated DevOps Practice Group. As a Senior DevOps practitioner at Zemoso you’ll use your expertise to provide DevSecOps services to our customers and to our inhouse Dev teams.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience. 
• 15+ years of overall IT experience
• 10+ years of DevOps experience with 5+ years of it on Azure platform
• Relevant Azure Certification(s)

Must have experience

• IaC tools ARM/bicep template, Azure DevOps
• GITHub repo and GIT tools
• scripting languages Python, PowerShell, bash development experience
• CI/CD design, build management.
• Container tools Docker and Kubernetes
• Azure Policy and permissions provisioning.
• IT experience to design, development (Java Spring Boot), automated testing, REST API’s, Microservices, Pub/Sub architecture
• Costing, budgeting, forecasting, monitoring cloud expenses.
• Architecture drawings and proposals, presentations.
• Stakeholder management.
• Prototyping.

Nice to have experience

• IaC tools CloudFormation, Terraform 
• Build tools Apache Maven, Jenkins
• Networking: DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, CDN and VPN
• Security: NSG, firewall and Azure policies, HTTPS, SSL certificates, KMS key
• Authentication (IAM): SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, Keycloak-based IdAM, LDAP and AD, and/or 3rd-party SSO.
• Access: RBAC and ABAC
• Load Balancers: Apache, Nginx, HAProxy
• Encryption: PKI infrastructure, Certificate authorities, OCSP, CRL, CSRs, x.509 certificate structures, pkcs12 certificate containers

Additionally, we’re looking for individuals who:

• Will assist in the rollout and deployment of new product features, and deploy applications via automation with configuration management tools
• Will build applications and tools to reduce barriers, decrease friction and speed up delivery of products
• Can effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
• Have strong collaborative instincts and interpersonal skills; must enjoy and work well with a wide variety of stakeholders in a complex organization
• Will manage individual project priorities with guidance, meeting deadlines and deliverables.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Work from anywhere.
• Learning and gaining experience rapidly.
• Reimbursement for basic working set up at home.
• Insurance (including a top up insurance for COVID).

Location

Remote - work from anywhere.

About us:

Zemoso Technologies is a Software Product Market Fit Studio that brings silicon valley style rapid prototyping and rapid application builds to Entrepreneurs and Corporate innovation. We offer Innovation as a service and work on ideas from scratch and take it to the Product Market Fit stage using Design Thinking->Lean Execution->Agile Methodology.

We were featured as one of Deloitte Fastest 50 growing tech companies from India thrice (2016, 2018 and 2019). We were also featured in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific both in 2016 and 2018.

We are located in Hyderabad, India, and Dallas, US. We have recently incorporated another office in Waterloo, Canada.

Our founders have had past successes - founded a decision management company acquired by SAP AG (now part of Hana Big data stack & NetWeaver BPM), early engineering team of Zoho (leading billion $ SaaS player) & some Private Equity experience.

Marquee customers along with some exciting start-ups are part of our clientele.

Required qualifications and must have skills  

• 5+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ infrastructure software engineers 

• 5+ years of experience in building and scaling technical infrastructure 

• 5+ years of experience in delivering software 

• Experience leading by influence in multi-team, cross-functional projects 

• Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management and managing engineers 

• Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure 

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker 

Nice to have Skills   

• Experience with Hadoop, Hive and Presto 

• Application/infrastructure benchmarking and optimization 

• Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices 

• Familiarity with reliability best practices 

**THIS IS A 100% WORK FROM OFFICE ROLE**

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.
You will help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management
activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for
DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in
the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or
creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing
vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous
development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Essential Skills and Experience Technical Skills

• Proven 3+years of experience as DevOps
• A bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in computer science
• The ability to code and script in multiple languages and automation frameworks
like Python, C#, Java, Perl, Ruby, SQL Server, NoSQL, and MySQL
• An understanding of the best security practices and automating security testing and
updating in the CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous deployment) pipelines
• An ability to conveniently deploy monitoring and logging infrastructure using tools.
• Proficiency in container frameworks
• Mastery in the use of infrastructure automation toolsets like Terraform, Ansible, and command line interfaces for Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and other cloud platforms
• Certification in Cloud Security
• An understanding of various operating systems
• A strong focus on automation and agile development
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects
simultaneously

OTHER INFORMATION

The DevOps Engineer will also be expected to demonstrate their commitment:
• to gedu values and regulations, including equal opportunities policy.
• the gedu’s Social, Economic and Environmental responsibilities and minimise environmental impact in the performance of the role and actively contribute to the delivery of gedu’s Environmental Policy.
• to their Health and Safety responsibilities to ensure their contribution to a safe and secure working environment for staff, students, and other visitors to the campus.

Role:

• Developing a good understanding of the solutions which Company delivers, and how these link to Company’s overall strategy.
• Making suggestions towards shaping the strategy for a feature and engineering design.
• Managing own workload and usually delivering unsupervised. Accountable for their own workstream or the work of a small team.  
• Understanding Engineering priorities and is able to focus on these, helping others to remain focussed too
• Acting as the Lead Engineer on a project. Helps ensure others follow Company processes, such as release and version control.
• An active member of the team, through useful contributions to projects and in team meetings.
• Supervising others. Deputising for a Lead and/or support them with tasks. Mentoring new joiners/interns and Masters students. Sharing knowledge and learnings with the team.

Requirements:

• Acquired strong proven professional programming experience.
• Strong command of Algorithms, Data structures, Design patterns, and Product Architectural Design.
• Good understanding of DevOps, Cloud technologies, CI/CD, Serverless and Docker, preferable AWS 
• Proven track record and expert in one of the field - DevOps/Frontend/Backend
• Excellent coding and debugging skills in any language with command on any one programming paradigm, preferred Javascript/Python/Go
• Experience with at least one of the Database systems - RDBMS and NoSQL
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• A naturally inquisitive and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong experience in using AGILE or SCRUM techniques to build quality software.
• Advantage: experience in React js, AWS, Nodejs, Golang, Apache Spark, ETL tool, data integration system, certification in AWS, worked in a Product company and involved in making it from scratch, Good communication skills, open-source contributions, proven competitive coding pro

• Experience in implementing DevOps practices and DevOps-tools in areas like CI/CD using Jenkins environment automation, and release automation, virtualization, infra as a code or metrics tracking.
• Hands on experience in DevOps tools configuration in different environments.
• Strong knowledge of working with DevOps design patterns, processes and best practices
• Hand-on experience in Setting up Build pipelines.
• Prior working experience in system administration or architecture in Windows or Linux.
• Must have experience in GIT (BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab)
• Hands-on experience on Jenkins pipeline scripting.
• Hands-on knowledge in one scripting language (Nant, Perl, Python, Shell or PowerShell)
• Configuration level skills in tools like SonarQube (or similar tools) and Artifactory.
• Expertise on Virtual Infrastructure (VMWare or VirtualBox or QEMU or KVM or Vagrant) and environment automation/provisioning using SaltStack/Ansible/Puppet/Chef
• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing Azure cloud based production systems including monitoring capacity.
• Good to have experience in migrating code repositories from one source control to another.
• Hands-on experience in Docker container and orchestration based deployments like Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Docker swarm.
• Must have good communication skills and problem solving skills

DevOps Engineer responsibilities include deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations that meet customer needs. If you have a solid background in working with cloud technologies, set up efficient deployment processes, and are motivated to work with diverse and talented teams, we’d like to meet you.

Ultimately, you will execute and automate operational processes fast, accurately, and securely.

Skills and Experience

• 4+ years of experience in building infrastructure experience with Cloud Providers ( AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Experience in deploying containerized applications build on NodeJS/PHP/Python to kubernetes cluster.

• Experience in monitoring production workload with relevant metrics and dashboards.

• Experience in writing automation scripts using Shell, Python, Terraform, etc.

• Experience in following security practices while setting up the infrastructure. 

• Self-motivated, able, and willing to help where help is needed

• Able to build relationships, be culturally sensitive, have goal alignment, have learning agility  

Roles and Responsibilities

• Manage various resources across different cloud providers. (Azure, AWS, and GCP)

• Monitor and optimize infrastructure cost.

• Manage various kubernetes clusters with appropriate monitoring and alerting setup.

• Build CI/CD pipelines to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of various services into kubernetes infrastructure.

• Work closely with the development team on upcoming features to determine the correct infrastructure and related tools.

• Assist the support team with escalated customer issues.

• Develop, improve, and thoroughly document operational practices and procedures. 

• Responsible for setting up good security practices across various clouds.