AES - DE - DevOps - Azure DevOps

Looking for a strong DevOps / Azure Platform Engineer with hands-on experience in cloud-native engineering, automation, CI/CD, infrastructure provisioning, observability, and operational excellence. The role will support application/platform teams in building scalable, secure, and resilient solutions on Microsoft Azure, with a strong focus on automation, DevSecOps, and cost-efficient operations.

The candidate should have a good understanding of microservices-based architectures, event-driven systems, cloud infrastructure automation, and modern engineering practices that enable reliable and efficient delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the design, setup, and automation of cloud infrastructure on Azure
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or Bicep
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
• Work with application teams to enable deployment automation, environment standardization, and release reliability
• Support applications built on microservices architecture and event-driven patterns
• Contribute to monitoring, alerting, observability, and performance optimization
• Help implement DevSecOps controls across build, deploy, and runtime stages
• Drive cost optimization / FinOps practices by identifying cloud inefficiencies and recommending improvements
• Automate operational tasks using Bash, PowerShell, and YAML
• Support performance and load testing activities to validate scalability and resilience
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, and architecture teams to improve platform reliability and delivery maturity

Required Skills & Experience

Core Technical Skills

• Good understanding of microservices architecture
• Experience or awareness of event-driven systems, including queues, topics, and asynchronous communication patterns
• Exposure to performance testing / load testing concepts and tools
• Strong hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using: 
  • Terraform
  • Bicep
• Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using: 
  • GitHub Actions
• Good knowledge of the Azure platform, including infrastructure and application hosting services
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools, logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting
• Understanding of cloud cost optimization / FinOps practices
• Good awareness of security and DevSecOps practices across infrastructure and pipelines
• Strong scripting/automation skills in: 
  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • YAML
• Familiarity with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes / AKS
• Exposure to SRE practices such as reliability engineering, SLOs/SLIs, incident reduction, and automation