Azure Platform Engineer

Position Title: Azure Platform Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Shift Timing: UK shift (flexible working hours)

Company Profile: Established in 1978, NES Fircroft is an award-winning staffing specialist that supplies technical and engineering experts (“white collar”) to Oil and Gas, Power, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Chemical, Mining, Automotive and IT sectors worldwide on an international basis. We’re a highly experienced team of over 2000 professionals made up of recruitment consultants and support staff spanning 58 offices worldwide. We work with top candidates to ensure that we can offer a full range of staffing solutions to our clients, complemented by industry-leading support services.

Job Summary:

Designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps. Managing and optimizing Azure resources and solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.
• Managing and optimizing Azure resources and solutions.
• Implementing containerized solutions using Docker and orchestrating them with Kubernetes.
• Collaborating with development teams to ensure best practices and optimal cloud infrastructure.
• Monitoring system health, ensuring security, scalability, and reliability.
• Continuously improving our platform's automation, processes, and performance.
• Troubleshooting and resolving deployment and platform-related issues.
• Keeping up-to-date with the latest Azure features, best practices, and technologies in the DevOps space.

Decision Making (What action can this job holder take without further approval?)

Deployment and configuration of CI/CD pipelines, Web apps, mobile apps, and Microsoft Azure Services

Accountability (Quantifiable responsibility for x revenue or Specified Scope of Business Operations)

Ensuring that the Microsoft Azure backend services and products and working optimally, designing and implementing the infrastructure to ensure the system are scalable for the NESF Timesheet App and other apps/services we provide from the Microsoft Azure.

Job Requirements:

• 5+ years professional experience in Azure/DevOps/Platform Engineering
• Bachelor’s degree Educated.
• Proven experience as an Azure DevOps Engineer.
• Strong knowledge of Azure cloud services and solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or ARM Templates.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD best practices and tools.
• Ability to write scripts using Shell, Python, or similar.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.