azure cloud engineer

Job Description

We are looking for an Azure Cloud & Observability Engineer with strong experience in Azure infrastructure and enterprise monitoring tools such as Splunk, Grafana, and AppDynamics.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Azure cloud infrastructure and services.
• Monitor application and infrastructure performance using Splunk, Grafana, and AppDynamics.
• Configure dashboards, alerts, health rules, and monitoring metrics.
• Perform log analysis, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis for production issues.
• Implement observability solutions for applications, cloud infrastructure, and services.
• Automate monitoring and operational activities using scripting.
• Support incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Collaborate with development, DevOps, and SRE teams to improve system reliability.
• Maintain monitoring standards, documentation, and operational procedures.

Primary Skills

• Microsoft Azure
• Splunk
• Grafana
• AppDynamics
• Cloud Monitoring & Observability
• Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Log Analysis & Troubleshooting

Secondary Skills

• Azure Monitor / Log Analytics
• Azure VMs, Storage, Networking
• Linux
• Python / PowerShell / Shell Scripting
• CI/CD
• Git
• ITIL / ServiceNow

🚀 Hiring: Senior Azure Platform Engineer | Azure | Terraform | Kubernetes

📍 Location: India

💼 Employment: Full-Time | Long-Term

🎯 Experience: 10+ Years | 8+ Years Hands-on Azure

🔑 What We’re Looking For

▪️ Strong expertise in Azure Cloud Platform & Landing Zone Architecture

▪️ Advanced hands-on experience with Terraform & reusable IaC modules

▪️ Expertise in Kubernetes, Helm & container platforms

▪️ Strong understanding of Azure Networking, Entra ID, RBAC & Azure Policy

▪️ Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions / Azure Pipelines & CI/CD

▪️ Hands-on GitOps & ArgoCD experience

▪️ Strong observability skills with Prometheus, Grafana & Azure Monitor

▪️ Experience designing and supporting microservices architectures

▪️ Knowledge of security, policy-as-code and IaC security scanning

▪️ Exposure to Azure Arc / Azure Local / Azure Stack HCI is a plus

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).

3+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, including IaaS, PaaS, networking, identity (Entra ID), and governance services.

2+ years of experience with DevOps tooling and practices, including CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM), and version control (Git).

2+ years' experience in infrastructure design, platform engineering, or architecture.

Strong proficiency with automation and scripting — PowerShell, Azure CLI, Python, or Bash.

Solid understanding of containerisation (Docker) and familiarity with orchestration platforms (Azure Kubernetes Service).

Deep understanding of cloud architecture, deployment patterns, and management best practices, including the Azure Well-Architected Framework.

Experience defining standards, governance frameworks, and reference architectures for cloud platform consumption.

Strong knowledge of networking concepts, storage configurations, virtualisation technologies, and disaster recovery/backup design for hybrid environments.

Experience with Azure DevOps (Repos, Pipelines, Boards, Artifacts) or equivalent platforms.

Familiarity with identity and access management (IAM), including Entra ID, RBAC, PIM.

Strong understanding of security, compliance requirements, and IT governance frameworks (ITIL, COBIT, or similar).

Preferred

• Strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud.
• Good understanding of Azure services such as Compute, Storage, Event Hub, Event Subscription, Storage Queue, and PaaS services.
• Basic understanding of Azure AI Foundry and AI-related Azure service setup.
• Good Azure networking basics: VNet, subnet, routing, and basic troubleshooting.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform, especially:
• Terraform state
• plan / apply
• troubleshooting failures
• migration risks
• Terraform Enterprise concepts
• Strong Python coding capability, not just basic scripting.
• Experience using Python for API integration, automation, JSON/YAML handling, and internal tooling.
• Good understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to troubleshoot pipeline failures.
• Comfortable with YAML and JSON.
• Ability to troubleshoot Azure infrastructure/platform issues.
• Ability to collect logs/evidence and coordinate with network/app/Microsoft support teams.
• Basic awareness of agentic AI / LLM concepts.
• Awareness of security and cost best practices.

Good to Have Skills

• Hands-on experience with Harness.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform Enterprise.
• Exposure to LangGraph / LangChain.
• Exposure to agentic AI workflows or skill creation.
• Exposure to Claude or enterprise LLM integrations.
• Knowledge of Azure ML Workspace, model registry, and managed endpoints.
• MLOps / LLMOps knowledge.
• FinOps / Azure cost optimization experience.
• Azure certifications: AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400, AZ-500.

Screening Priority:

Azure Cloud + Terraform + Python Coding + CI/CD Troubleshooting + YAML/JSON + Basic Agentic AI Awareness

Very strong infra engineer to administer Linux based VMs (and few Windows VMs as well).

Must have strong knowledge and hands-on on docker, Kubernetes

Must be good at monitoring (AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana) and logging (Splunk)

Develop automation scripts using Shell and Python. Must have good knowledge in Ansible.

Should be good at optimize/finetune server configurations.

 Should be good in troubleshoot issues and fix them.

Work Mode: WORK FROM OFFICE

Interview Mode: Virtual

Role Descriptions:

Exp Range: 5 - 8 years

City Locations: Bengaluru

*Key Responsibilities*

Devops Developer (Azure)

Azure L2 Support | Specialist | Infrastructure Operations-260006F2- Certificate & DNS Management- Monitoring & Observability- Azure Operations & Compliance- Migration: Open Cloud TnC- Reliability & Operations Excellence (OPS)

Profile – 5 to 8+ years in Cloud/Infrastructure Operations- Strong hands-on Azure skills- Certificates/PKI experience- DNS management- Grafana| Health Checks| Azure Monitor- IaC automation (Terraform/Bicep)- Networking fundamentals Nice-to-Have- Azure security and compliance- AKS monitoring basics- FinOps practices- French reading proficiency- Certifications: AZ-104| AZ-305| etc.

Desire candidate

• Candidate should have valid PF.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Observability Engineer with strong expertise in ThousandEyes, Splunk, database technologies, and Python automation. The candidate will be responsible for monitoring application, network, and infrastructure performance, identifying issues, and developing automation solutions to improve system visibility, reliability, and operational efficiency.

Required Skills

• Observability
• ThousandEyes / Cisco ThousandEyes
• Splunk
• OracleDB
• MongoDB
• SQL
• Python Automation

Roles & Responsibilities

• Implement and support observability and monitoring solutions across applications, networks, and infrastructure.
• Work with ThousandEyes for network and digital experience monitoring.
• Configure and maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, and performance metrics.
• Use Splunk for log analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting, and reporting.
• Work with OracleDB, MongoDB, and SQL for data analysis and troubleshooting.
• Develop Python scripts for monitoring and operational automation.
• Analyze performance issues and identify root causes across applications and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and network teams to resolve incidents.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and automation processes.
• Prepare performance and monitoring reports and provide actionable insights.

Mandatory Skills

• 7+ years of relevant experience
• Strong experience in Observability / Monitoring
• Hands-on experience with ThousandEyes
• Splunk
• Python Automation
• SQL
• OracleDB / MongoDB

Job Summary

We are looking for a Senior Observability Engineer with strong expertise in ThousandEyes, Splunk, and Monitoring & Observability Engineering. The candidate should have experience implementing and enhancing monitoring solutions, along with basic Python automation scripting.

Primary Skills

• ThousandEyes
• Splunk
• Monitoring & Observability Engineering
• Oracle Database
• SQL
• MongoDB
• Python Automation

Key Responsibilities

• Implement, configure, and enhance enterprise monitoring and observability solutions.
• Work extensively with ThousandEyes for network and application performance monitoring.
• Develop and maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, and reports using Splunk.
• Monitor application, infrastructure, network, and database performance.
• Work with Oracle Database, SQL, and MongoDB for monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Develop basic Python automation scripts to improve monitoring and operational efficiency.
• Analyze performance issues and support troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, network, and database teams to resolve observability-related issues.
• Continuously improve monitoring coverage, alerting, and operational processes.

Secondary Skills

• GenAI Concepts
• SaaS Architecture Concepts
• Cloud Application Architecture

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 7+ years of experience in Observability / Monitoring Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with ThousandEyes and Splunk.
• Good understanding of databases including Oracle, SQL, and MongoDB.
• Basic hands-on experience with Python automation.
• Understanding of application, infrastructure, and network monitoring.
• Exposure to GenAI, SaaS, or Cloud Application Architecture is an added advantage.

Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (CSRE) – Azure

About Searce:

Searce is an AI-native, engineering-led modern technology consultancy that empowers

clients to futurify their businesses by delivering real, intelligent business outcomes. As a

trusted partner for over 3,000 clients globally, Searce specializes in cloud modernization,

data engineering, applied AI, and robust cloud platform security. Driven by a "HAPPIER"

cultural mindset and our proprietary evlos problem-solving framework, we eliminate

bureaucratic fluff to build working prototypes fast and scale enterprise production

environments intelligently. We don't just fix systems; we leverage multi-cloud technologies

to transform client operations into distinct competitive advantages.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a high-caliber Senior or Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (CSRE) to

architect, secure, and stabilize next-generation hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Operating at the intersection of infrastructure design, security compliance, and production

operations, you will serve as the technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) across GCP, Azure,

and AWS.

Whether optimizing a microservice mesh on GKE, tuning autoscaling on AKS, or driving a

massive disaster recovery drill across AWS regions, your focus will be absolute reliability. For

the Lead path, you will couple this deep engineering toolkit with stakeholder management

and mentorship to drive an elite operational culture.

Experience & Level Expectation:

Years of Experience: 3 to 10 years of intensive, hands-on production operations

experience in a dedicated DevOps, Cloud Platform Engineering, or SRE role.

Associate level (3-5 Years): Expected to show flawless execution of IaC, advanced

triaging of infrastructure failures, and ownership of the CI/CD and deployment

lifecycles.

Intermediate level (5-10 Years): Expected to take architectural ownership, serve as

primary Incident Commander for complex outages, design cross-cloud governance

frameworks, and act as a reliable bridge between technical teams and client

leadership.

Key Responsibilities & Role Expectations:

Multi-Cloud Platforms & Orchestration: Design, configure, and maintain

production-grade Kubernetes clusters across major platforms (AKS).

Manage advanced network routing, service meshes (e.g., Istio), and multi-tenant

isolation.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & GitOps: Build declarative, enterprise-grade, reusable

infrastructure components using Terraform or Crossplane. Standardize automated

environment provisioning to eliminate configuration drift across multi-branch

environments.

Incident Management & Reliability (SRE): Own and optimize the production on-call

rotation. Lead rapid mitigation strategies for Sev-1/Sev-2 system outages, reducing

Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) through centralized log and metric correlation.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Facilitate rigorous, blameless post-incident reviews to

identify core architectural vulnerabilities and establish long-term fixes preventing

recurrence.

Lifecycle, Patching & Upgrades: Plan and execute zero-downtime cluster upgrades,

operating system patching strategies (Linux/Windows), database lifecycle updates,

and multi-region Disaster Recovery (DR) failover drills.

Core Core Operations & Legacy Integration: Manage enterprise-level hybrid

networking architecture (VPCs, Firewalls, Load Balancers, DNS routing, and DHCP

configurations) while effectively connecting cloud native services to legacy

infrastructures like Active Directory.

Security & Governance: Embed Zero Trust policies, secure secrets management

(Secrets Manager/Key Vault), and continuous vulnerability patching into the

automated SDLC pipeline.

Required Technical Skills:

- Microsoft Azure: Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Azure Active Directory, Azure Update Management.

- Containers & Orchestration

• Production-level management of GKE, AKS, and EKS.
• Advanced mastery of Docker, Helm, Kubernetes StatefulSets, Pod Disruption

Key Responsibilities

Azure Infrastructure: Deploy, configure, and manage Azure IaaS and PaaS services, including Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, Azure Firewall, VPN/ExpressRoute gateways, storage, App Services, and Azure SQL.

Azure Landing Zones: Implement and maintain landing zones aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, including management groups, subscriptions, RBAC, Azure Policy, and resource tagging.

Cloud Migration: Execute on-premises-to-Azure migrations using Azure Migrate, Azure Site Recovery (ASR), and database migration tools.

Identity and Access Management: Manage Microsoft Entra ID integrations, Entra Connect, Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and managed identities.

Backup and Disaster Recovery: Configure and manage Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, monitoring, and disaster recovery solutions.

L2 Support and Incident Management: Resolve infrastructure incidents and service requests within agreed SLAs, perform root-cause analysis, and escalate complex issues to L3 teams with detailed diagnostics.

Cloud Security: Apply security baselines using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and implement secure-score recommendations.

Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Automate routine tasks using PowerShell and Azure CLI, and work with ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform.

Cost Optimization: Monitor Azure consumption, optimize resource utilization, and prepare monthly cloud usage and cost reports.

Technical Documentation: Prepare low-level designs, operational runbooks, as-built documentation, and project handover documents.

Presales Support: Assist with effort estimation, technical solution inputs, and proof-of-concept implementations.

Required Skills and Qualifications

3–5 years of hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure infrastructure.

At least 2 years of experience in customer-facing consulting or managed services environments.

Strong working knowledge of Azure networking, compute, storage, and identity services.

Practical experience delivering at least one end-to-end Azure migration or landing zone deployment.

Good understanding of Windows Server, Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.

Hands-on scripting experience with PowerShell.

Working knowledge of Bicep, ARM templates, or Terraform.

Familiarity with ITIL processes and ticketing tools such as ServiceNow, Jira Service Management, Freshservice, or similar platforms.

Strong written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to interact with customer IT teams.

Certifications

Mandatory

Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).

Preferred

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500).

Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700).

Good to Have

Experience with Azure Virtual Desktop deployment and image management.

Exposure to Microsoft Sentinel or Microsoft Defender XDR.

Experience supporting UAE government or semi-government customers.

Arabic language proficiency.

Candidate Requirements

Currently based in the UAE with a valid residence visa, or able to transfer the visa without delay.

Available to join immediately or within 15 days.

A valid UAE driving licence is preferred for customer site visits.

Willing to work at customer premises and support occasional after-hours change windows