Azure DevOps Lead

Posted:
3/15/2025, 8:56:59 PM

Location(s):
Tamil Nadu, India

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

Position: Azure DevOps Lead
Experience:
8-10 years

Location : Chennai

Position Type: Full time
Qualification: Any graduate

 

Technical Skills:

Azure cloud, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, YAML, GCP, Terraform, ARM, Kubernetes, API gateway, Azure Pipelines and Azure DevOps, Cloud Security, Load Balancer, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, Cloudfare, Hashi Corp Vault.

Requirements:

  • Evaluate and recommend Azure/GCP services and components for various Azure Services
  • Monitor cloud infrastructure, identify performance bottlenecks, and implement solutions for optimization.
  • Lead the planning and implementation of Azure/GCP infrastructure, considering best practices for security, performance, and reliability.
  • Stay updated with the latest Azure / GCP features, trends, and industry best practices.
  • Designed, Developed and Delivered Scalable and high Availability Application End to End
  • Expertise in Azure/Google Cloud Platform services and components, including Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Storage, Bigdata components preferably in GCP
  • Proven experience as a Azure/GCP or similar role, with a strong background in designing and implementing cloud solutions preferably in GCP
  • Has performed Resource utilization monitoring and right sizing , Cost optimization, Performance optimization exercises
  • Worked in Event Driven Architecture (like Kafka) Confluent cloud
  • Infrastructure Auto Scaling , Utilization based alerting
  • Experience with designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines for cloud deployments.
  • Knowledge of cloud security principles and best practices for securing cloud environments
  • Familiarity with networking concepts and configuration in a cloud environment.
  • Knowledge of microservices architecture and serverless computing
  • Infra Pricing estimation for new requirement

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Extensive experience (12+ years) building, deploying, and securing Azure cloud infrastructure with Terraform.
  • Experience expressing “secure by design” and “shift left” principles through Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Enthusiasm for automation and creative technical ability to identify time-saving or novel automation workflows. Proven ability to enhance security                                                                                                                                                 through automation, continuous integration/deployment pipelines, and challenge existing processes/norms.
  • Ability to enhance security through automation, continuous integration/deployment pipelines, and challenge existing processes/norms.
  • Experience building & maintaining container-based/Kubernetes-based workloads; understanding of container security threats and best practices.
  • Experience building & maintaining cloud networking & cloud-based security controls, such as SSL certificate management, API gateway, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and associated security best practices.
  • Experience working with YAML pipelines/Azure Pipelines/Azure DevOps.
  • Experience configuring secure IAM, such as least privilege, zero trust, privileged identity management.
  • The habit of staying current on cloud security policies, standards, regulations, and best practices, as well as strong understanding of cloud-focused security risks and threats.
  • Support the Information Security & core DevOps teams with other cloud-based security tasks as needed, and willingness to work outside of standard business hours during critical incidents.