Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Role – Senior DevOps Engineer

Skills – Mandatory

• Microsoft Azure (Expert level)
• CI/CD Pipeline Development
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Containerisation

Skills – Primary

• Cloud Networking
• Backup, HA, and Disaster Recovery
• Monitoring & Logging
• Security & Compliance

Skills – Good to have

• Multi-Cloud Exposure
• Cost Optimisation
• Exposure on Render – Cloud platform

Qualification

• B. Tech / MCA

Experience

• Total Experience: 8+ years
• Relevant Experience: 4+ years

Work Location

• TVM / Kochi

Expected Date of Onboarding

• ASAP

Job Purpose (both Onsite / Offshore)

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cloud / DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure to join our dynamic technology team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in cloud architecture, CI/CD pipeline development, infrastructure automation, 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 key role in enabling continuous delivery, improving deployment frequency, and enhancing platform reliability.

In addition to hands-on engineering responsibilities, the role involves close collaboration with development, operations, and security teams to ensure that best practices in infrastructure-as-code, monitoring, security compliance, and cost optimization are consistently applied across environments. The engineer will also contribute to developing reusable DevOps templates and frameworks to accelerate project delivery and ensure operational excellence.

Job Description / Duties and Responsibilities

• 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.
• Knowledge of DevOps automation (Terraform, GitHub, GitHub Actions).
• Good knowledge of Monitoring / Observability tools and processes inclusive of CloudWatch, ELK stack, CloudTrail, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus. Infra monitoring using Nagios or Zabbix.
• Experience working with Operations teams in Agile development models and across all SDLC phases.
• Comprehensive technical expertise in 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.
• Familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and Azure Cloud Security.
• Excellent analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.