Lead Azure Devops Engineer

We are looking for a hands-on Azure DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer to manage enterprise Azure environments, automate infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, and support cloud modernization initiatives.

🔑 Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement & support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

• Perform TFS / Azure DevOps Server → Azure DevOps Services migration

• Build & manage Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Support Azure cloud infrastructure, networking, security, monitoring & production environments

• Drive cloud migration, application modernization & platform transformation initiatives

• Work with Terraform, containerization, DevSecOps & cloud automation

• Troubleshoot infrastructure/deployment issues and support incident & on-call operations

• Create technical documentation, runbooks and deployment standards

🎯 Mandatory Requirements

✅ AZ-204 – Azure Developer Associate – Mandatory

✅ 5–8 years total IT experience

✅ 3+ years hands-on Azure DevOps / Azure Infrastructure experience

✅ Strong experience in CI/CD & Azure DevOps

✅ Hands-on experience with TFS / Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps Services migration

✅ Strong understanding of Azure cloud infrastructure & cloud operations

✅ Experience with IaC, provisioning & infrastructure automation

✅ Exposure to cloud/data migration and application modernization

✅ Experience supporting Azure networking, security & monitoring

✅ Experience in production support / managed services / cloud operations

✅ Willingness to work UK/US shifts and participate in on-call support

⭐ Preferred / Optional

• AZ-400 – Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer Expert

• AZ-104 – Azure Administrator Associate

• HashiCorp Terraform Associate

• Container platforms, orchestration & DevSecOps experience

🎓 Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering or related field.

 DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or related roles  Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (VMs, App Services, AKS, Storage, Networking, etc.)  Expertise in Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts)  Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as ARM, Bicep, or Terraform  Proficiency in scripting (PowerShell, Bash, or Python)  Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/AKS)  Strong experience with monitoring and logging tools within Azure ecosystem  Good understanding of cloud security, networking, and governance in Azure  Experience in managing production environments and handling escalations 

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