Lead DevOps Engineer
Exp-6+years (Relevant 5years must)Location- TVM/cochiNotice period- Immediate onlyskills
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Azure,
DevOps, AWS, CI/CDWe are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer with deepexpertise in Microsoft Azure to join our dynamic technology team. The ideal candidate will havea strong foundation in cloud architecture, CI/CD pipeline development, infrastructureautomation, and DevSecOps practices.This role is critical in driving the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, secure,and resilient cloud-based solutions using Azure services. The selected candidate will play a keyrole in enabling continuous delivery, improving deployment frequency, and enhancing platformreliability.In addition to hands-on engineering responsibilities, the role involves close collaboration withdevelopment, operations, and security teams to ensure that best practices in infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, security compliance, and cost optimization are consistently applied acrossenvironments. The engineer will also contribute to developing reusable DevOps templates andframeworks to accelerate project delivery and ensure operational excellence.
- 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 CICD 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 CICD 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.
- To adhere to the Information Security Management policies and procedures.
Skills: bicep,puppet,terraform,aws,jenkins,cloudtrail,lead experience,kubernetes,github actions,prometheus,zabbix,ansible,chef,cloudwatch,github,azure,black duck,devops,elk stack,grafana,ci/cd,nagios,docker,jira,kibana,artifactory
