DevOps Engineer - Azure Cloud

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design and develop automation of infrastructure, championing best practices in service operation, delivery, scale, and observability.
• Engage in the continuous integration and continuous deployment lifecycle of services, from design and inception through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement.
• Contribute system design, capacity planning, and pre-production activities to support services before they go live.
• Ensure optimal service performance by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and system health. Implement sustainable scaling through automation and push for system evolution to boost reliability and deployment velocity.
• Actively participate in incident response and conduct blameless postmortems to foster continuous improvement.

Requirements:

Total Experience: 4 - 9 years

• Minimum of 4 years in DevOps, system administration, or similar roles, with a proven track record in supporting enterprise-level applications.
• Experience in creating resources in Kubernetes.
• Extensive experience with Azure; familiarity with GCP and AWS is an added advantage.
• Strong command of at least one compiled programming language along with experience in scripting languages such as Bash or Python.
• At least 2 - 4 years in production engineering or a similar capacity.
• Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking, CI/CD methodologies, and best practices with tools like Azure DevOps.
• Expertise in using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform/Azure ARM Templates for automated system deployments.
• Experience deploying applications in containerized environments using Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.
• Familiarity with Azure Services like Application Insights, App Configurations, Key vault, API Management Services, Alerting & Monitoring and AKS.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in creating build and deployment pipelines with Azure DevOps.
• Expertise in managing applications with Kubernetes.
• Working knowledge of both Azure and GCP.
• Experience working with Security scans like Fortify, Veracode or other tools.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.
• Proficient in working with APIs and Plugins for integrating diverse tooling into established CI/CD pipelines.

Candidate Attributes:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a capability to optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively articulating technical challenges and solutions to varied audiences.