Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain Azure infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code.

• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines for Azure workloads.

• Embed governance, access control, and security guardrails into delivery processes.

• Improve platform reliability and operational maturity.

• Support application teams with deployments, troubleshooting, and optimization.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Technical — Essential

  • 5+ years DevOps/Platform Engineering; 2+ years on Azure

  • Terraform or Bicep — production IaC, not just templates

  • Kubernetes / AKS: namespaces, RBAC, Network Policies, Helm charts, Kustomize

  • Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions — multi-stage pipelines, approvals, environments

  • Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, KQL query language

  • Container ecosystem: Docker, ACR, image signing, admission control

  • Azure networking: VNet, private endpoints, NSGs, Azure Firewall, ExpressRoute concepts

  • KEDA (Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling) or equivalent autoscaling experience

  Technical — Advantageous

  • Azure Key Vault, managed identity, Workload Identity for Kubernetes

  • OPA Gatekeeper or Kyverno for Kubernetes policy enforcement

  • Kafka / Azure Event Hubs — consumer group management, lag monitoring

  • ADLS Gen2, WORM immutable storage, lifecycle management policies

  • Azure AI Foundry / APIM — token quotas, rate limiting, backend routing configuration

  • Security tooling: Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Notary v2

  Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or equivalent

  • Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) or DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) strongly preferred

  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) advantageous