Softobiz - DevOps Engineer - Azure Cloud Services

Overview

DevOps Engineer Azure (6 to 8 Years Experience)

Location : Kochi, India

Company : Softobiz Technologies

Department : Cloud, DevOps & Platform Engineering

Role Type : Full-time

Role Overview

Softobiz is seeking an experienced Azure DevOps Engineer (68 years) to join our high-performance platform engineering team in Kochi.

The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise in Azure cloud services, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, network security, monitoring, and zero-trust best practices.

You will support enterprise digital transformation programs (e.g., ERP implementations, multi-tenant web platforms, AI workloads, .NET/Node/React applications) across global customers including Sydney Markets Limited, Oroton, Equalis Group, FirstPath, and Softobiz product initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

Azure Infrastructure Engineering :

• Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure using Azure Landing Zone principles.
  
  

• Azure App Services / Container Apps / AKS
• Azure SQL, MySQL Flexible Server
• Azure Storage & Private Endpoints
• Azure API Management (APIM)
• Application Gateway + WAF
• Azure Key Vault (Dapr or managed identity integration)
• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Defender for Cloud
• VNETs, NSGs, Private DNS, Firewall
• Drive end-to-end environment provisioning across Dev/Test/UAT/Prod, aligning with customer naming conventions and compliance.
  
  

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Automate application deployment for .NET Core, Node.js, React, Next.js, Python services.
  
  

• Build versioning, artifact management, release gates
• IaC-driven environment promotion
• Blue/Green or Rolling deployments
• Secrets management via Key Vault + managed identity
  
  

• Author, modularize, and optimize Terraform configurations for reusable infrastructure setups.
• Implement state management with remote backends and workspaces.
• Enforce coding standards, tagging policies, and cost-controlled resource definitions.
  
  

• You Will Ensure Infrastructure Adheres To Enterprise-grade Security Controls.
• Cloud Security Best Practices.
  
  

• No secrets in code
• Use Managed Identities everywhere
• Role-based access control (RBAC) with least privilege
• Configure WAF policies, IP restrictions, NSGs, and conditional access.
• Implement secure patterns for :
• Key rotation using Key Vault
• Private endpoints instead of public exposure
• Blueprint-compliant naming, tagging & cost governance
• Ensure regulatory compliance (SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR where applicable).
  
  

• Implement end-to-end monitoring using Azure Monitor, App Insights, Log Analytics, and Prometheus/Grafana (if container workloads).
  
  

• Alerts, dashboards, SLOs/SLIs, error budgets
• Distributed tracing for microservices
• Cost optimization dashboards
  
  

• Manage and deploy microservices using :
• Azure Container Apps
• Docker
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Dapr sidecar integrations (desirable)
• Optimize container images, orchestrate workloads, and implement CI/CD for containers.
  
  

• Work closely with project delivery teams, solution architects, and developers.
• Participate in architectural reviews and ensure deployments follow approved patterns.
• Support production releases, incident response, root-cause analysis, and performance tuning.
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers in the Kochi team.
  
  

• 6 to 8 years of hands-on Azure DevOps experience.
  
  

• Terraform (mandatory)
• GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Azure Networking, VNETs, NSGs, Firewall
• Azure Kubernetes (AKS) or Container Apps
• Application Gateway + WAF
• Azure SQL / MySQL / Redis / Storage
• API Management
• Azure Monitor, Log Analytics
• Experience implementing Managed Identity + Key Vault for secure application access.
  
  

• Azure Defender configuration.
• Azure Policies & Governance.
• Hardening of virtual networks, endpoints, identity, and workloads.
• Secretless pipelines & shift-left security practices.
• Familiarity with OWASP, NIST, CIS Benchmarks.
  
  

• Strong troubleshooting & analytical thinking.
• Clear verbal/written communication with global stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple environments & deadlines.
• Ownership mindset & proactive risk escalation.
  
  

Experience with :

• Dapr sidecars for microservices
• GitOps (Flux/ArgoCD)
• Azure Bicep
• Serverless : Azure Functions, Logic Apps
• PowerShell/Go/Python scripting
• ERP or enterprise-scale integration environments
• AI workloads (Azure OpenAI, vector databases)
  
  

• AZ-104, AZ-305, AZ-400 (preferred)
  
  

(ref:hirist.tech)