Azure Platform Engineer

Azure Platform Engineer – Cloud, DevOps & FinOps

Location: Bengaluru

Experience Level: 3 to 6 Years

Job Summary:

Core Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

  Design and maintain modular, reusable, and scalable Terraform templates to enable developer self-service provisioning.

• CI/CD & GitOps:

  Build and manage automated Azure DevOps YAML pipelines supporting blue-green deployments, rollbacks, and GitOps workflows.

• Container Orchestration:

  Administer and optimize Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker, Helm charts, and associated ingress/networking components.

• Cloud Security & Compliance:

  Harden environments using Azure Key Vault, RBAC, Azure Policy, and Defender for Cloud; implement container scanning and CIS Benchmarks.

• FinOps & Cost Optimization:

  Lead cost-reduction strategies leveraging Azure Cost Management, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, auto-scaling, and Spot VMs.

• Data & Observability:

  Manage production PostgreSQL and Redis instances (HA, backups, tuning) while maintaining monitoring dashboards using ELK Stack, Grafana, Prometheus, and Azure Monitor.

• Multi-Cloud Readiness:

  Collaborate with engineering teams to align application architecture with high availability, disaster recovery, and upcoming AWS/GCP multi-cloud integrations.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Cloud Experience:

  3 to 6 years of core DevOps/Platform experience with deep expertise in

  Microsoft Azure

  (Networking, VNets, NSGs, Private Endpoints).

• Automation & IaC:

  Advanced proficiency in

  Terraform

  (modules, workspaces, state management) along with PowerShell, Bash, or Azure CLI scripting.

• Containers:

  Strong hands-on experience with

  AKS, Docker, Helm

  , and Kubernetes lifecycle management.

• CI/CD Tools:

  Expert knowledge of

  Azure DevOps

  and Git repositories.

• Observability & Data:

  Proven experience handling

  ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana

  alongside production database administration for

  PostgreSQL and Redis

  .

• FinOps & Security:

  Demonstrated ability to manage cloud spend optimization and enforce cloud/container security baselines.

• Nice to Have:

  Hands-on experience with

  AWS or GCP

  (EKS, GKE, IAM, VPC) to assist with multi-cloud transition.