DevOps Engineer Azure (68 Years Experience)

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

1. Azure Infrastructure Engineering

• Design deploy and manage cloud infrastructure using Azure Landing Zone principles.
• Build production-grade architectures involving:
• 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.

2. CI/CD & Automation

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Automate application deployment for .NET Core React Python services.
• Apply best practices for:
• Build versioning artifact management release gates
• IaC-driven environment promotion
• Blue/Green or Rolling deployments
• Secrets management via Key Vault managed identity

3. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform

• 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.

4. Security Governance & Compliance

Cloud Security Best Practices

• Enforce Zero Trust principles:
• 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).

5. Observability & Reliability

• Implement end-to-end monitoring using Azure Monitor App Insights Log Analytics and Prometheus/Grafana (if container workloads).
• Set up:
• Alerts dashboards SLOs/SLIs error budgets
• Distributed tracing for microservices
• Cost optimization dashboards

6. Containers Microservices & Orchestration

• 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.

7. Collaboration & Delivery

• 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.

Required Skills & Experience

Core Technical Skills

• 68 years of hands-on Azure DevOps experience
• Strong proficiency in:
• 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.

Security Skills

• 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

Soft Skills

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

Nice-to-Have Skills

• 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)
• Certifications:
• AZ-104 AZ-305 AZ-400 (preferred)