Lead DevOps Engineer ? Azure & AKS

Job Description

Job Title:?Lead Devops Engineer - Azure Location:?Coimbatore Years of Exp:?7+ years Key Responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain resilient?Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)?environments ensuring high availability and fault tolerance. Proactively monitor and optimize?cloud infrastructure costs. Drive adoption of?Azure DevOps?boards, repositories, build & release pipelines. Implement?DevSecOps?practices integrating security within CI/CD pipelines. Automate security checks and vulnerability scans across workflows. Define governance standards for Azure DevOps adoption and usage. Build scalable?DevOps toolchains?to accelerate software delivery. Provide?production support?for Azure and on-premise hosted applications. Manage?Azure Administration, VMs, Cloud Services, and Traffic Manager. Design and implement?system security and data assurance. Identify and implement emerging?Azure service offerings. Requirements 10+ years of experience in?Microsoft Azure infrastructure management. Deep knowledge of?AKS or Kubernetes?(migration experience preferred). Hands-on experience with?Azure DevOps,?CI/CD, and automation tools (Ansible, Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus, VSTS). Understanding of?.NET applications?and performance debugging. Strong grasp of?Infrastructure as Code (IaC)?using Azure CLI, PowerShell. Proven expertise across Azure services:?VMs, Storage, SQL Database, Virtual Network, Active Directory, and more. Excellent communication skills and experience in?Agile environments.