Azure Devops Engineer

Job Summary:

The ideal candidate is responsible for leading and implementing DevOps practices to enhance the development, deployment, and maintenance of cloud-based applications and services on Microsoft Azure. They would design CI/CD pipelines, automate infrastructure as code (IaC), monitor system performance, and ensure secure, scalable, and highly available Azure environments and would collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline processes, foster a DevOps culture, and provide seamless delivery of solutions aligned with business goals.

What youll do:

• Design the architecture, infrastructure setup, deploy and manage applications on Azure Cloud based on customer needs using Infrastructure as code
• Work closely with the development teams to gather system requirements, new service proposals, and large system improvements and come up with the infrastructure architecture leading to stable, well-monitored, and secure applications
• Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the application performance using solutions like database indexes, Cache, Cosmos, Redis
• DDOS/WAF configuration using APIM, LBs, FrontDoor, & Traffic manager
• Use of IaC tools like Terraform, Bicep to create/update infrastructure
• Automate deployments (CI&CD) and other repetitive tasks using Shell/Python scripts or tools like Jenkins, AzureDevOps, ArgoCD, etc
• Implement configuration management for development, test, and production environments using tools like Chef, Ansible, etc
• Control infrastructure costs by continually looking for opportunities to right-size servers and services
• Manage permissions, backup, and performance across different databases like MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, etc
• Act as technical and cultural change catalysts, accelerating learning journeys and the progressive adoption of the DevOps best practices and techniques
• Innovate, audit, and monitor applications and infrastructure and identify opportunities to improve performance

What you need:

• BE/BTech/MCA with 1+ years of experience in DevOps and managing infrastructure for public-facing applications on Azure clouds
• Prior work experience in various Azure services like: Virtual Machines, Storage (Blob, Page, Archive), Azure SQL Database, Azure CDN, Azure Automation, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Functions, Active Directory, Traffic Manager, Scheduler, Database Migration Service, etc
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code using technologies like Terraform
• Proven experience in Microservices architectures using technologies such as Kubernetes
• Zero downtime deployment implementation on auto scaling infrastructure using CI/CD Tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, Gitlab, Github CI, etc
• Experience in a modern software development environment that is Agile and incorporates DevOps practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Self-starter and ability to deliver under tight timelines

What sets you apart:

• Prior experience in handling client communications
• Good to have experience in Python scripting
• Worked on NoSQL (ElasticSearchDB, MongoDB) and SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL)