DevOps Engineer

Job Description & Key Responsibilities

We are seeking an exceptional Azure DevOps Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience to join our IT Infrastructure team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing our Azure-based DevOps infrastructure while demonstrating advanced skills in cloud technologies, automation, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices. The role requires mandatory experience and expertise in Azure Cloud solutions focused on IaaS, PaaS and Containerization based solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as the go-to expert for Azure Cloud Services related operations including PaaS Resources, Virtual machines, containers, networking, and databases.
• Support development teams in building, troubleshooting continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines in Azure DevOps.
• Support internal and corporate cloud team in implementing solutions as part of global and local initiatives on cloud.
• Implement security best practices including Least privilege access, Micro Segmentation, role-based access control (RBAC), Azure Policy, and managing secrets with tools like Azure Key Vault.
• Implement strategies to optimize cloud cost.

Reporting Structure:

The selected candidate will report directly to the Platform Team who is responsible for ensuring that the Cloud infrastructure, projects and applications are managed appropriately.

Collaboration:

The candidate will collaborate with IT and business teams in charge of processes linked to Infrastructure management and DevOps, as well as IT and business teams responsible for data analysis and data science initiatives.

Required Skills & Profile:

• DevOps Culture: Promote DevOps best practices, Document processes and refine workflows.
• CI/CD Management: Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines with proper versioning and rollback.
• Testing Automation: Automate unit, integration, and end-to-end testing in the CI/CD pipeline.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Provision and manage scalable cloud resources ensuring security best practices.
• Proven experience with large-scale, multi-application Azure Cloud environments, including Virtual Machines (VMs), Azure PaaS resources, containers (Azure Container Apps/Kubernetes), Virtual networks and databases (Primarily MSSQL).
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using ARM templates, Terraform, or similar solutions.
• Experience in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) based identity and access management best practices.
• Familiarity with virtual networks and Firewall management in cloud environments for traffic management and security.
• Security Integration: Implementation of DevSecOps practices Integrate SAST and DAST into the CI/CD pipeline, implement secure access controls (private IP, Managed Identity) and network best practices for cloud resources.
• Environment Availability & Disaster Recovery: Ensure consistent availability of development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Familiarity with implementation and test-scenarios for Azure based disaster recovery and business continuity practices.
• Cloud Cost Optimization: Track and Optimize cloud resource usage and costs for maximum efficiency and reduce unnecessary spend.
• Incident Management: Actively contribute on incidents related to Cloud resources, perform root cause analysis, and implement fixes.