Job Title: |
Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Azure) |
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Department & Team |
Technology |
Location: |
India |
Reporting To: |
Enterprise Solutions Architect |
Role Purpose: |
The purpose of the role is to ensure high systems availability across a multi-cloud environment, enabling the business to continue meeting its objectives.
This role will be mostly Azure / Windows / Active Directory / Azure AD focused but will include a requirement to understand comparative solutions in AWS.
Desire to maintain full hands-on status but to add Team Lead responsibilities in future
Client’s cloud strategy is based around a dual vendor solutioning model, utilising AWS and Azure services. This enables us to access more technologies and helps mitigate risks across our infrastructure.
The Infrastructure Services Team is responsible for the delivery and support of all infrastructure used by Client twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The team’s primary function is to install, maintain, and implement all infrastructure-based systems, both On Premise and Cloud Hosted. The Infrastructure Services group already consists of three teams:
1. Network Services Team – Responsible for IP Network and its associated components 2. Platform Services Team – Responsible for Server and Storage systems 3. Database Services Team – Responsible for all Databases
This role will report directly into the Enterprise Solutions Architect and will have responsibility for the day to day running of the Azure public cloud platform, as well as playing a key part in designing best practise solutions. It will enable the Client business to achieve its stated objectives by playing a key role in the Infrastructure Services Team to achieve world class benchmarks of customer service and support.
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Responsibilities: |
Operations · Deliver end to end technical and user support across all cloud platforms (Primarily Azure) · Day to day, fully hands-on OS management responsibilities (Primarily Windows Server OS) · Contribute to continuous improvement efforts around cost optimisation, security enhancement, performance optimisation, operational efficiency and innovation. · Take an ownership role in delivering technical projects, ensuring best practise methods are followed. · Design and deliver solutions around the concept of “Planning for Failure”. Ensure all solutions are deployed to withstand system / AZ failure. · Work closely with Cloud Architects / Infrastructure Services Manager to identify and eliminate “waste” across cloud platforms. · Ensure robust tagging strategy followed in the organisation with accurate cost allocation of resources in Azure. · Ensure all Client data in all forms are backed up in a cost-efficient way. · Use the appropriate monitoring tools to ensure all cloud / on-premise services are continuously monitored. · Drive utilisation of most efficient methods of resource deployment. · Drive the adoption, across the business, of serverless / open source / cloud native technologies where applicable. · Ensure system documentation remains up to date and designed according to Azure best practise templates. · Participate in detailed architectural discussions, calling on internal/external subject matter experts as needed, to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment. · Take part in regular discussions with business executives to translate their needs into technical and operational plans. · Engaging with vendors regularly in terms of verifying solutions and troubleshooting issues. · Designing and delivering technology workshops to other departments in the business. · Takes initiatives for improvement of service delivery. · Ensure that Client delivers a service that resonates with customer’s expectations, which sets Client apart from its competitors. · Help design necessary infrastructure and processes to support the recovery of critical technology and systems in line with contingency plans for the business. · Continually assess working practices and review these with a view to improving quality and reducing costs. · Champions the new technology case and ensure new technologies are investigated and proposals put forward regarding suitability and benefit. · Motivate and inspire the rest of the infrastructure team and undertake necessary steps to raise competence and capability as required. · Help develop a culture of ownership and quality throughout the Infrastructure Services team.
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Skills & Experience: |
· Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert AZ-303– REQUIRED · Microsoft Certified Professional ( MCP ) – REQUIRED · AWS Certified Cloud Practicioner - Preferred · Must be able to demonstrate working knowledge of designing, implementing and maintaining best practise Azure solutions. · Strong working knowledge of on-prem Active Directory, including GPO and Azure AD · Proven examples of ownership of large Azure project implementations in Enterprise settings. · Enterprise production experience of deploying infrastructure as code using Terraform · Experience managing the monitoring of infrastructure / applications using tools including Cloud native, Solarwinds, New Relic, etc. · Must have practical working knowledge of driving cost optimisation, security enhancement and performance optimisation. · Solid understanding and experience of transitioning IaaS solutions to serverless technology · Need to be able to demonstrate security best-practise when designing solutions in Azure. · Working experience of ‘On Premise to Cloud’ migrations · Good working knowledge around WAN connectivity and how this interacts with the various entry point options into Azure public cloud. · Production knowledge of Windows file servers / DFS · Strong experience in desktop virtualisation technologies in Azure · Good appreciation of ISO27001, ITIL and Project management · Good understanding of new and emerging technologies · Excellent presentation skills to both an internal and external audience · The ability to share your specific expertise to the rest of the Technology group · |
Behavioural Fit: |
· Professional appearance and manner · High personal drive; results oriented; makes things happen; “can do attitude” · Can work and adapt within a highly dynamic and growing environment · Team Player; effective at building close working relationships with others · Effectively manages diversity within the workplace · Strong focus on service delivery and the needs and satisfaction of internal clients · Able to see issues from a global, regional and corporate perspective · Able to effectively plan and manage large projects · Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills at all levels · Strong analytical, presentation and training skills · Innovative and creative · Demonstrates technical leadership · Visionary and strategic view of technology enablers (creative and innovative) · High verbal and written communication ability, able to influence effectively at all levels · Possesses technical expertise and knowledge to lead by example and input into technical debates · Depth and breadth of experience in infrastructure technologies · Enterprise mentality and global mindset · Sense of humour
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Role Key Performance Indicators: |
· Design and deliver repeatable, best in class, cloud solutions. · Pro-actively monitor service quality and take action to scale operational services, in line with business growth. · Generate operating efficiencies, to be agreed with Infrastructure Services Manager. · Establish a “best in sector” level of operational service delivery and insight. · Help create an effective team. |

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Work: Initially Onsite and later Hybrid
We are committed to becoming a true DevOps house and want your help. The role will
require close liaison with development and test teams to increase effectiveness of
current dev processes. Participation in an out-of-hours emergency support rotationally
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Good knowledge of Amazon Web Services suite (EC2, ECS, Loadbalancing, VPC,
S3, RDS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, IAM etc)
• Hands on knowledge on container orchestration tools – Must have: AWS ECS and Good to have: AWS EKS
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A proactive approach to problem

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• Previously help a DevOps Engineer or System Engineer role
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About the role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Azure DevOps Engineer with a strong background in backend development to join our rapidly growing team. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 4 years of experience and has have extensive experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment processes, and optimizing infrastructure on Azure. Additionally, expertise in backend technologies and development frameworks is required to collaborate effectively with the development team in delivering scalable and efficient solutions.
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- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment using tools such as Ansible, and Jenkins.
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- Develop and maintain build and deployment pipelines, ensuring that they are scalable, secure, and reliable.
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- Familiarity with Azure CLI, Azure REST APIs, Azure Resource Manager template, Azure billing/cost management and the Azure Management Console
- Must have experience of any one of the programming language (Java, .Net, Python )
- Ensure high availability of the production environment by implementing disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
- Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and trending operational tools (CloudWatch, New Relic, Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Nagios).
- Stay up to date with new technologies and trends in DevOps and make recommendations for improvements to existing processes and infrastructure.
- ontribute to backend development projects, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
- Work closely with the development team to understand application requirements and provide technical expertise in backend architecture.
- Design and implement database schemas.
- Identify and implement opportunities for performance optimization and scalability of backend systems.
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and sprint planning sessions.
- Stay updated with the latest Azure technologies, tools, and best practices to continuously improve our development and deployment processes.
- Mentor junior team members and provide guidance and training on best practices in DevOps.
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
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- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and practices.
- Expertise in Azure DevOps services, including Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, and Azure Boards.
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- Proficient in scripting languages like PowerShell or Python.
- Experience with Linux and Windows server administration.
- Strong understanding of backend development principles and technologies.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Experience with industry frameworks and methodologies: ITIL/Agile/Scrum/DevOps
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.
- Have worked in a product based company.
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- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Opportunity for growth and advancement within the company
- Collaborative, dynamic, and fun work environment
- Possibility to work with cutting-edge technologies and innovative projects
- Recommend a migration and consolidation strategy for DevOps tools
- Design and implement an Agile work management approach
- Make a quality strategy
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About the Company
Blue Sky Analytics is a Climate Tech startup that combines the power of AI & Satellite data to aid in the creation of a global environmental data stack. Our funders include Beenext and Rainmatter. Over the next 12 months, we aim to expand to 10 environmental data-sets spanning water, land, heat, and more!
We are looking for DevOps Engineer who can help us build the infrastructure required to handle huge datasets on a scale. Primarily, you will work with AWS services like EC2, Lambda, ECS, Containers, etc. As part of our core development crew, you’ll be figuring out how to deploy applications ensuring high availability and fault tolerance along with a monitoring solution that has alerts for multiple microservices and pipelines. Come save the planet with us!
Your Role
- Applications built at scale to go up and down on command.
- Manage a cluster of microservices talking to each other.
- Build pipelines for huge data ingestion, processing, and dissemination.
- Optimize services for low cost and high efficiency.
- Maintain high availability and scalable PSQL database cluster.
- Maintain alert and monitoring system using Prometheus, Grafana, and Elastic Search.
Requirements
- 1-4 years of work experience.
- Strong emphasis on Infrastructure as Code - Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible.
- CI/CD concepts and implementation using Codepipeline, Github Actions.
- Advanced hold on AWS services like IAM, EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, etc.
- Advanced Containerization - Docker, Kubernetes, ECS.
- Experience with managed services like database cluster, distributed services on EC2.
- Self-starters and curious folks who don't need to be micromanaged.
- Passionate about Blue Sky Climate Action and working with data at scale.
Benefits
- Work from anywhere: Work by the beach or from the mountains.
- Open source at heart: We are building a community where you can use, contribute and collaborate on.
- Own a slice of the pie: Possibility of becoming an owner by investing in ESOPs.
- Flexible timings: Fit your work around your lifestyle.
- Comprehensive health cover: Health cover for you and your dependents to keep you tension free.
- Work Machine of choice: Buy a device and own it after completing a year at BSA.
- Quarterly Retreats: Yes there's work-but then there's all the non-work+fun aspect aka the retreat!
- Yearly vacations: Take time off to rest and get ready for the next big assignment by availing the paid leaves.
- 3+ years experience leading a team of DevOps engineers
- 8+ years experience managing DevOps for large engineering teams developing cloud-native software
- Strong in networking concepts
- In-depth knowledge of AWS and cloud architectures/services.
- Experience within the container and container orchestration space (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Passion for CI/CD pipeline using tools such as Jenkins etc.
- Familiarity with config management tools like Ansible Terraform etc
- Proven record of measuring and improving DevOps metrics
- Familiarity with observability tools and experience setting them up
- Passion for building tools and productizing services that empower development teams.
- Excellent knowledge of Linux command-line tools and ability to write bash scripts.
- Strong in Unix / Linux administration and management,
KEY ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own and manage the entire cloud infrastructure
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- Explore new technologies and tools and recommend those that best fit the team and organization
- Own and manage the site reliability
- Strong decision-making skills and metric-driven approach
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This person MUST have:
- B.E Computer Science or equivalent
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- 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
- 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
- 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
- Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
- Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
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Experience:
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Location:
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Timings:
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Position:
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- We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
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Job Description
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• 8+ years of overall experience and relevant of at least 4+ years. (Devops experience has be more when compared to the overall experience)
• Experience with Kubernetes and other container management solutions
• Should have hands on and good understanding on DevOps tools and automation framework
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with DevOps techniques building continuous integration solutions using Jenkins, Docker, Git, Maven
• Experience with n-tier web application development and experience in J2EE / .Net based frameworks
• Look for ways to improve: Security, Reliability, Diagnostics, and costs
• Knowledge of security, networking, DNS, firewalls, WAF etc
• Familiarity with Helm, Terraform for provisioning GKE,Bash/shell scripting
• Must be proficient in one or more scripting languages: Unix Shell, Perl, Python
• Knowledge and experience with Linux OS
• Should have working experience with monitoring tools like DataDog, Elk, and/or SPLUNK, or any other monitoring tools/processes
• Experience working in Agile environments
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong Automation and Problem-solving skills and ability
• Experience of implementing and supporting AWS based instances and services (e.g. EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, IAM, Route53, Cloudfront, Elasticache).
•Very strong hands with Automation tools such Terraform
• Good experience with provisioning tools such as Ansible, Chef
• Experience with CI CD tools such as Jenkins.
•Experience managing production.
• Good understanding of security in IT and the cloud
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP
• Good Experience with Linux, networking and generic system operations tools
• Experience with Clojure and/or the JVM
• Understanding of security concepts
• Familiarity with blockchain technology, in particular Tendermint
The expectation is to set up complete automation of CI/CD pipeline & monitoring and ensure high availability of the pipeline. The automated deployment environment can be on-prem or cloud (virtual instances, containerized and serverless). Complete test automation and ensure Security of Application as well as Infrastructure.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Configure Jenkins with load distribution between master/slave Setting up the CI pipeline with Jenkins and Cloud(AWS or Azure) Code Build Static test (Quality & Security) Setting up Dynamic Test configuration with selenium and other tools Setting up Application and Infrastructure scanning for security. Post-deployment security plan including PEN test. Usage of RASP tool. Configure and ensure HA of the pipeline and monitoring Setting up composition analysis in the pipeline Setting up the SCM and Artifacts repository and management for branching, merging and archiving Must work in Agile environment using ALM tool like Jira DESIRED SKILLS
Extensive hands-on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery technology experience of .Net, Node, Java and C++ based projects(Web, mobile and Standalone). Experience configuring and managing
- ALM tools like Jira, TFS, etc.
- SCM such as GitHub, GitLab, CodeCommit
- Automation tools such as Terraform, CHEF, or Ansible
- Package repo configuration(Artifactory / Nexus), Package managers like Nuget & Chocholatey
- Database Configuration (sql & nosql), Web/Proxy Setup(IIS, Nginx, Varnish, Apache).
Deep knowledge of multiple monitoring tools and how to mine them for advanced data Prior work with Helm, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, microservices, message queues and related technologies Test Automation with Selenium / CuCumber; Setting up of test Simulators. AWS Certified Architect and/or Developer; Associate considered, Professional preferred Proficient in: Bash, Powershell, Groovy, YAML, Python, NodeJS, Web concepts such as REST APIs and Aware of MVC and SPA application design. TTD experience and quality control with Sonarqube or Checkmarx, Tics Tiobe and Coverity Thorough with Linux(Ubuntu, Debian CentOS), Docker(File/compose/volume), Kubernetes cluster setup Expert in Workflow tools: Jenkins(declarative, plugins)/TeamCity and Build Servers configuration Experience with AWS CloudFormation / CDK and delivery automation Ensure end-to-end deployments succeed and resources come up in an automated fashion Good to have ServiceNow configuration experience for collaboration
What you will get:
- To be a part of the Core-Team 💪
- A Chunk of ESOPs 🚀
- Creating High Impact by Solving a Problem at Large (No one in the World has a similar product) 💥
- High Growth Work Environment ⚙️
What we are looking for:
- An 'Exceptional Executioner' -> Leader -> Create an Impact & Value 💰
- Ability to take Ownership of your work
- Past experience in leading a team
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
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4+ years of experience in building infrastructure experience with Cloud Providers ( AWS, Azure, GCP)
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Experience in deploying containerized applications build on NodeJS/PHP/Python to kubernetes cluster.
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Experience in monitoring production workload with relevant metrics and dashboards.
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Experience in writing automation scripts using Shell, Python, Terraform, etc.
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Experience in following security practices while setting up the infrastructure.
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Self-motivated, able, and willing to help where help is needed
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Able to build relationships, be culturally sensitive, have goal alignment, have learning agility
Roles and Responsibilities
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Manage various resources across different cloud providers. (Azure, AWS, and GCP)
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Monitor and optimize infrastructure cost.
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Manage various kubernetes clusters with appropriate monitoring and alerting setup.
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Build CI/CD pipelines to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of various services into kubernetes infrastructure.
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Work closely with the development team on upcoming features to determine the correct infrastructure and related tools.
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Assist the support team with escalated customer issues.
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Develop, improve, and thoroughly document operational practices and procedures.
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Responsible for setting up good security practices across various clouds.

