Cloud Application Specialist - Senior

Job Description:

Must have Skills:

• Minimum 8–10+ years of hands-on experience in cloud application development and engineering,
  

• Demonstrated recent expertise in Microsoft Azure (App Services, Azure Functions, AKS), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift), and DevOps/automation tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines), including building and integrating scalable, cloud-native enterprise solutions.
  

• Demonstrated experience in enterprise cloud architecture, security (IAM, encryption, compliance), data engineering (ETL/ELT, Azure data services), observability (monitoring/logging), and advanced DevOps/DevSecOps practices, including API-driven integration, CI/CD pipeline design, and scalable, high-availability solution delivery
  

• Experience with writing code to interact with RESTful APIs to replace manual processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes.
  

• Demonstrated experience designing, developing and implementing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with integrated security (DevSecOps)
  

Core Skills and Experience:

• Experience with solution design/implementation in a cloud-based environment – including:
  

•  Scripting languages such as python to automate repeatable processes
  

• Experience with automation for infrastructure provisioning using Ansible, Jenkins
  

• Experience with network automation processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes
  

• Experience with continuous monitoring to monitor system and application performance and alert on downtimes, errors and similar events
  

• Fundamentals of Docker containers and containers orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift
  

• Experience with running containerized applications in enterprise environment
  

• Experience in VMware-based virtualization and in using cloud services such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, is a plus
  

Technical & Engineering Skills:

• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach
  

• Fluency in git-based source code management and version control systems – Git, GitHub, GitLab etc.