Role & responsibilities
Leadership & Collaboration
- Lead, mentor, and review the work of junior DevOps resources.
- Define DevOps best practices, standards, and processes.
- Collaborate with development, QA, and security teams to streamline release cycles.
- Act as the primary point of contact for DevOps-related architecture and decisions.
Infrastructure & Cloud Management
- Design, build, and maintain highly available and scalable systems on Azure.
- Architect and manage Kubernetes (AKS) clusters, including upgrades and capacity planning.
- Implement and manage auto-scaling for Kubernetes nodes and workloads.
- Ensure system reliability, performance, and security.
CI/CD & Automation
- Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab, etc.).
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools (Terraform, ARM, Bicep preferred).
- Standardize application deployment using Docker and Kubernetes. Monitoring, Logging & Alerting
- Implement and continuously improve monitoring and alerting systems. ? Integrate tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, etc.
- Configure alerting and on-call workflows using OpsGenie, PagerDuty, or similar tools.
- Proactively identify and resolve performance and availability issues.
Preferred candidate profile
Mandatory Skills
? 69 years of experience in DevOps / Site Reliability Engineering / Systems Administration.
? Strong hands-on experience with Azure cloud services.
? Advanced knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. ? Strong experience with Docker and container networking.
? 2+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience (AKS preferred).
? Strong Linux system administration experience.
? Experience with application deployment using CI/CD pipelines.
? Experience implementing monitoring and alerting solutions. Good to Have
? Experience with Kubernetes auto-scaling (HPA, Cluster Autoscaler).
? Experience with security best practices in cloud and container environments.
? Knowledge of GitOps practices and tools.
? Exposure to multi-environment deployments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod).