DevOps Engineer – Azure (6–8 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 (6–8 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.
- 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.
- CI/CD & Automation
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- Security, Governance & Compliance
You Will Ensure Infrastructure Adheres To Enterprise-grade Security Controls
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).
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 6–8 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)
