Senior DevOps Engineer(Azure preferred)

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer (5+ years experience) with strong expertise in Microsoft Azure and working knowledge of AWS and/or GCP to lead end-to-end cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. 

This role focuses on designing and operating secure, scalable, and production-grade cloud platforms, with emphasis on Azure-native services, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, and cloud governance. You will work closely with engineering teams and clients to deliver highly available, cost-optimized, and compliant systems.

Experience: 5+ Years
Location: Ahmedabad
Employment Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure across Azure(preferred), AWS/GCP cloud.
• Own end to end DevOps responsibilities of the assigned project.
• Design and implement Azure Landing Zones, subscription strategy, environment isolation, and governance.
• Design and manage infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Azure-native IaC tools like Bicep/ARM (good to have).
• Design, build, Manage and support containerized and microservices based workloads using AKS and Azure Container Apps.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines for reliable and efficient software delivery.
• Manage multiple environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod) including environment promotion, release governance, and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary).
• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting solutions to ensure system reliability and observability.
• Ensure adherence to security, compliance, IAM and operational best practices.
• Design and manage highly available database deployments and ensure secure access management.
• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis, and preventive improvement measures.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for cost efficiency and right-size workloads.
• Write custom automation scripts and tools using Bash, Python, or Go lang for automation and improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with developers, architects, PMs, and clients to deliver optimal technical solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams and other relevant documentations.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps roles.
• Strong production experience with Azure(preferred), exposure to AWS or GCP is a plus and willingness to learn and work across other cloud environments as needed.
• Deep hands-on experience in designing and managing complex Terraform based infrastructure provisioning. Experience with cloud native Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Bicep/ARM and Ansible (good to have).
• Strong understanding, design and manage secure networking architecture including VNets, subnets, NSGs, Private Endpoints, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, and Front Door.
• Strong experience with container orchestration platforms such as AKS (must-have), Azure Container Apps. Exposure to EKS, GKE, ECS is a plus.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture including advanced concepts such as ingress controllers, API gateways, Service mesh, autoscaling, cluster upgrades, networking and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and optimizing autoscaling strategies across cloud infrastructure including Linux VMs and container orchestration platforms to ensure high availability, performance efficiency and cost optimization.
• Solid expertise in Docker, image optimization, security hardening, and containe