Lead Azure Devops Engineer

Review Criteria

• Strong DevOps /Cloud Engineer Profiles
• Must have 3+ years of experience as a DevOps / Cloud Engineer
• Must have strong expertise in cloud platforms – AWS / Azure / GCP (any one or more)
• Must have strong hands-on experience in Linux administration and system management
• Must have hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Must have experience in building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
• Must have hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
• Must be proficient in scripting languages such as Python or Bash for automation
• Must have experience with monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or CloudWatch
• Top tier Product-based company (B2B Enterprise SaaS preferred)

Preferred

• Experience in multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure scaling.
• Exposure to AI/ML pipeline deployments or iPaaS / reverse ETL connectors.

Role & Responsibilities

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure for our SaaS platform and AI-driven products. The role will focus on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, monitoring, and security automation, enabling rapid and reliable software delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support rapid release cycles.
• Manage containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Own infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Set up and maintain monitoring & alerting frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
• Drive cloud security automation (IAM, SSL, secrets management).
• Partner with engineering teams to embed DevOps into SDLC.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive incident response.
• Support multi-tenant SaaS scaling strategies.

Ideal Candidate

• 3–6 years' experience as DevOps/Cloud Engineer in SaaS or enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong expertise in LINUX Administration.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins).
• Proficient in Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash).
• Experience with monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch).
• Strong grasp of cloud security best practices.

NOTE- This is a contractual role for a period of 3-6 months.

Responsibilities:

● Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines across services and environments

● Monitor system health and set up alerts/logs for performance & errors ● Work closely with backend/frontend teams to improve deployment velocity

● Manage cloud environments (staging, production) with cost and reliability in mind

● Ensure secure access, role policies, and audit logging

● Contribute to internal tooling, CLI automation, and dev workflow improvements

Must-Haves:

● 2–3 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering

● Experience with Docker, CI/CD (especially GitHub Actions), and cloud providers (AWS/GCP)

● Proficiency in writing scripts (Bash, Python) for automation

● Good understanding of system monitoring, logs, and alerting

● Strong debugging skills, ownership mindset, and clear documentation habits

● Infra monitoring tools like Grafana dashboards

Intuitive is the fastest growing top-tier Cloud Solutions and Services company supporting Global Enterprise Customer across Americas, Europe and Middle East.

Excellent communication skills

Open to work on EST time zone(6pm to 3am)

Technical Skills: 

·        In depth understanding of DevSecOps process and governance 

·        Understanding of various branching strategies 

·        Hands on experience working with various testing and scanning tools (ex. SonarQube, Snyk, Blackduck, etc.) 

·        Expertise working with one or more CICD platforms (ex. Azure DevOps, GitLab, GitHub Actions, etc) 

·        Expertise within one CSP and experience/working knowledge of a second CSP (Azure, AWS, GCP) 

·        Proficient with Terraform 

·        Hands on experience working with Kubernetes 

·        Proficient working with GIT version control 

·        Hands on experience working with monitoring/observability tool(s) (Splunk, Data Dog, Dynatrace, etc) 

·        Hands on experience working with Configuration Management platform(s) (Chef, Saltstack, Ansible, etc) 

·        Hands on experience with GitOps 

Profile: DevOps Engineer
Experience: 5-8 Yrs
Notice Period: Immediate to 30 Days

Job Descrtiption:

Technical Experience (Must Have):
Cloud: Azure
DevOps Tool: Terraform, Ansible, Github, CI-CD pipeline, Docker, Kubernetes
Network: Cloud Networking
Scripting Language: Any/All - Shell Script, PowerShell, Python
OS: Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL etc)
Database: MongoDB

Professional Attributes: Excellent communication, written, presentation,
and problem-solving skills.

Experience: Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in Cloud Automation and
Application

Additional Information (Good to have):
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
Terraform Associate
Docker
Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Role:
Building and maintaining tools to automate application and
infrastructure deployment, and to monitor operations.
Design and implement cloud solutions which are secure, scalable,
resilient, monitored, auditable and cost optimized.
Implementing transformation from an as is state, to the future.
Coordinating with other members of the DevOps team, Development, Test,
and other teams to enhance and optimize existing processes.
Provide systems support,  implement monitoring and logging alerting
solutions that enable the production systems to be monitored.
Writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Industry standard tools and
services.
Writing application deployment automation using industry standard
deployment and configuration tools.
Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines that serve the
purpose of provisioning and operating client test as well as production
environments.
Implement and stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices
and tooling.

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Ensure limited system failure and increase up-time and availability of the various company apps.
• Understand the current application infrastructure and strive for making it better.
• Automate infrastructure and develop tools and processes to improve the customer experience and reduce support time.
• Work closely with a team of developers and solution strategists to develop, deploy and troubleshoot the deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS stack. Increasingly automate and improve the testing plans and development workflows and tools.
• Work closely with the engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies.
• Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment. Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
• Support internal and external customers on multiple platforms.
• First point of contact for handling customer issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• In addition to providing customer support, will be responsible for helping build tools and processes necessary for excellent customer outcomes.

Skills:

• Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
• Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin or Java.
• Proficient with Git and Git workflows and hosted enterprise Git solutions like GitHub.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Experience with. AWS EKS Kubernetes infrastructure setup.
• Experience creating Cloud Formation Template to create Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, DNS, back-end database, Elastic load balancer, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, S3, IAM roles, RDS DB instances, and to provide those instances and configure those resources to work together reducing the manual effort.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS
• Security aware and ensures that all systems are security standards-compliant.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Minimum 3-5 years of cloud development experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins preferred.
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline