Position Summary
We are looking for aLead DevOps Engineerwith strongAzure experience as the primary skillandAWS knowledge as secondary/preferred. This role requires a highly experienced professional who can lead the design, implementation, automation, security, and operational excellence of enterprise cloud platforms. The ideal candidate should have deep hands-on expertise across core Azure services, strong DevOps and cloud governance experience, and the ability to drive modernization, reliability, and scalable infrastructure practices across teams.
The candidate should have strong experience inAzure App Service, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, Azure API Management, Azure Virtual Network, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Monitor, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure Key Vault, along with exposure to AWS environments and modern DevOps practices.
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on experience inMicrosoft Azurewith deep expertise in designing and managing enterprise-scale cloud environments
- Good working knowledge ofAWSas a secondary cloud platform
- Hands-on expertise in the following Azure services:
- Azure App Service
- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Azure Container Apps
- Azure API Management
- Azure Virtual Network (VNet)
- Azure Load Balancer
- Azure Application Gateway
- Azure Monitor
- Azure Log Analytics
- Azure Key Vault
- Strong expertise inDockerand containerized application deployments
- Strong experience inCI/CD pipeline implementation and automation
- Hands-on experience withAzure DevOpsand enterprise release processes
- Strong knowledge ofTerraform / Bicep / ARM templates
- Good scripting knowledge inPowerShell / Python / Bash
- Strong experience inInfrastructure Managementacross cloud and hybrid/on-prem environments
- Good understanding ofRelease Management, Change Management, and Environment Governance
- Strong understanding ofOperational Efficiency, KPI monitoring, dashboards, observability, and service optimization
- Exposure toFinOps / cost optimizationpractices
- Good knowledge of monitoring and reporting tools such asDynatrace, Power BI, Azure Monitor, and other enterprise observability platforms
- Experience withweb deploymentsandC# / .NET application deployments
- Strong understanding ofcybersecurity best practicesin cloud environments
- Experience withAccess Management / IAM
- Knowledge ofRBAC, authentication, authorization, and least-privilege principles
- Experience in implementingsecurity management practices
- Understanding ofvulnerability management
- Knowledge ofthreat monitoring and incident response
- Experience withsecure cloud architectureandnetwork security controls
- Strong knowledge ofdata confidentiality, integrity, and availability principles
- Experience withAzure Key Vault / AWS Secrets Manager
- Strong understanding ofhigh availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity planning
Job Responsibilities
- Lead the design, deployment, and management ofscalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure, primarily inAzure
- Architect and manage enterprise solutions usingAKS, App Service, Container Apps, API Management, networking, monitoring, and security services
- Provide support forAWS environmentswhere required
- Lead the implementation and optimization ofCI/CD pipelinesfor application and infrastructure deployments
- DriveInfrastructure as Code (IaC)adoption usingTerraform, Bicep, ARM, and CloudFormation
- Manageweb application deployments, container-based delivery, and release orchestration
- Drivecontinuous modernizationusing the latest DevOps tools, automation approaches, and cloud-native practices
- Establish and enforce standards forincident management, problem management, release management, and change management
- Implement enterprise-grademonitoring, alerting, dashboards, observability, and KPI tracking
- Strengthen cloud environments throughsecurity, compliance, governance, and access control best practices
- Ensurebusiness continuity, uptime, service resiliency, backup, and disaster recovery readiness
- Collaborate with development, QA, infrastructure, security, and business teams to improve deployment quality and release speed
- Lead root cause analysis and resolution of complex production and platform issues
- Mentor and guide junior DevOps engineers and help define best practices across teams
- Contribute toarchitecture documentation, platform governance, technical roadmaps, and process improvements
- Drive cost optimization and resource efficiency initiatives across cloud platforms
- Support Agile / Scrum delivery teams with DevOps enablement and platform engineering best practices
Preferred Profile
- 7+ years of experience inDevOps / Cloud Engineering / Platform Engineering
- Strong Azure cloud administration, engineering, and deployment background
- Experience in leading cloud or DevOps initiatives at enterprise scale
- AWS exposure is an added advantage
- Good communication, stakeholder management, and troubleshooting skills
- Experience working inAgile / Scrumenvironments
- Strong focus onautomation, security, reliability, scalability, and governance
- Experience mentoring team members and driving engineering best practices
- Azure / AWS certifications are a plus
Nice to Have
- Experience withmulti-cloud environments
- Exposure toC# and .NET application deployment ecosystems
- Experience inplatform engineeringanddeveloper enablement
- Familiarity withcompliance standardsand audit-ready cloud practices
- Experience withcost governanceand cloud financial management
- Knowledge ofAI/ML platform deployment supportin Azure environments