Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure)

Job Description

Overview

Are you an experienced DevOps professional with strong expertise in Microsoft Azure looking to take the next step in your career? Do you enjoy troubleshooting complex IT issues, working with modern cloud-based tools, and automating processes? Are you looking to expand your expertise in a global, dynamic environment?

If you answered YES, then this is the perfect role for you!

This role is for a Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure) who will work closely with DevOps and Software engineers to ensure systems run smoothly, respond to issues quickly, and apply problem-solving skills to fix unanticipated problems. The role focuses on cloud operations in Microsoft Azure, with Azure certification being a strong advantage. You will participate in projects that implement cloud-native and cloud-agnostic solutions, oversee the software life-cycle around infrastructure automation and runtimes in the cloud, and monitor, diagnose, maintain, and fix issues to improve hybrid cloud systems. This is a global Technology division role and is hybrid: two days a week in the office is required.

Responsibilities

• Implement cloud-native design principles in distributed systems and/or distributed service-mesh, serverless, microservices with GitOps workflow and practices.
• Build, maintain, and optimize internal CI/CD infrastructure and toolchain automation to cover all aspects of the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with technical architects on requirements definition and assist with cloud-based infrastructure planning and implementation, focusing on Microsoft Azure (AWS experience is also required).
• Use programming experience in Python and Golang to write and automate operational processes.
• Implement services, controls, and reusable DevOps patterns to deliver value safely, quickly, and sustainably in the cloud.
• Maintain and monitor production and non-production systems to ensure infrastructure performs at maximum efficiency.
• Execute system management, monitoring, alerting, updating, and root cause analysis to provide continuous operations.
• Use innovative methods and technologies to solve problems related to performance, scalability, reliability, and availability.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Strong and proven experience in Microsoft Azure cloud operations, including infrastructure provisioning, maintenance, and automation using Terraform and CloudFormation. Solid AWS experience is also required.
• Proven ability to manage and operate multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters across development, staging, and production environments on AKS and EKS.
• Expertise in implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, and adopting GitOps methodologies to automate infrastructure.
• Strong background in observability and monitoring using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Honeycomb.
• Experience with cloud networking components (VPCs, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, routing) and designing/troubleshooting complex network topologies.
• Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MariaDB) and NoSQL/analytical databases including MongoDB and Snowflake.
• Familiarity with business intelligence (BI) tools.
• Microsoft Azure certification would be a strong advantage.
• Proactive, able to work independently and take ownership.
• Continuous learning mindset with staying updated on technology trends.

Additional Information

Please note that we will only consider candidates with a valid work permit.

All selected candidates are required to complete an online technical test.

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