Senior DevOps Engineer

Experience

8+ Years

Job Purpose

• Seeking a Senior Cloud/DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure to design, implement, and optimize scalable, secure cloud-based solutions. The role drives continuous delivery, improves deployment frequency, and enhances platform reliability through infrastructure automation and DevSecOps practices. Requires collaboration across teams to ensure best practices in IaC, monitoring, security compliance, and cost optimization.

Job Description / Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development teams to establish and enhance continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines, including source code management, build processes, and deployment automation.
• Publish and disseminate CI/CD best practices, patterns, and solutions.
• Design, configure, and maintain cloud infrastructure components using platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, and other cloud providers.
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or Bicep or CloudFormation to ensure consistency, scalability, and repeatability of deployments.
• Monitor and optimize cloud-based systems, addressing performance, availability, and scalability issues.
• Implement and maintain containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes to enable efficient deployment and management of applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve operational issues, troubleshoot incidents, and improve system reliability.
• Establish and enforce security best practices and compliance standards for cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and monitoring tasks using tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Ensure that the service’s uptime and response time SLAs/OLAs are met or surpassed.
• Build or maintain CI/CD building blocks and shared libraries proactively for app and development teams to enable quicker build and deployment.
• Actively participate in bridge calls with team members and contractors/vendors to prevent or quickly address problems.
• Troubleshoot, identify, and fix problems in the DevSecOps domain.
• Ensure incident tracking tools are updated in accordance with established norms and processes, gather all essential data and document any discoveries and concerns.
• Align with technological Systems/Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes and industry-standard service management principles (such as ITIL).
• Create and publish engineering platforms and solutions.

Job Specification / Skills and Competencies

• Expertise in any one of Azure/AWS/GCP. Azure is a mandatory requirement.
• 8+ years of related job experience.
• Strong experience in containerization and container orchestration technologies – Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
• Strong Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform/Bicep/CloudFormation, etc.
• Knowledge of DevOps Automation (Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions).
• Good knowledge of Monitoring/Observability tools and processes inclusive CloudWatch, ELK stack, CloudTrail, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus. Infra monitoring using Nagios or Zabbix.
• Experience in working with Operations team in Agile Development model and all SDLC phases.
• Comprehensive technical expertise in a variety of DevSecOps toolkits, including Ansible, Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Black Duck, Terraform, Git/Version Control Software, or comparable technologies.
• Familiarity with information security frameworks and standards.
• Exposure to the Render cloud platform is desirable and considered a plus.
• Familiarity with API Security, Container Security, Azure Cloud Security.
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Strong debugging/troubleshooting skills.

Any Additional Information/Specifics

• To adhere to the Information Security Management policies and procedures.