DevOps Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Azure Cloud/DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Azure PaaS services, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure DevOps. The candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, deploying, and supporting highly available and scalable cloud applications and infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate should have strong experience in CI/CD, containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, Azure networking, security, monitoring, and automation.
Responsibilities:
Design, deploy, and manage Azure PaaS services, including App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Service Bus, Event Grid, and related services.
Design, configure, and administer Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.
Manage Kubernetes workloads, deployments, services, ingress, namespaces, secrets, config maps, and autoscaling.
Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
Develop and maintain build and release pipelines for application and infrastructure deployments.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or ARM/Bicep templates.
Build and manage Docker containers and container registries using Azure Container Registry (ACR).
Implement deployment strategies such as rolling, blue-green, and canary deployments where required.
Configure Azure networking components such as VNets, subnets, NSGs, private endpoints, load balancers, Application Gateway, and Azure DNS.
Implement Azure security best practices, including Managed Identity, RBAC, Key Vault, secrets management, and network security.
Configure monitoring, logging, alerting, and troubleshooting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and Container Insights.
Automate infrastructure and operational activities using PowerShell, Azure CLI, Bash, or Python.
Troubleshoot application, container, Kubernetes, pipeline, networking, and Azure infrastructure issues.
Work closely with development, architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable cloud solutions.
Participate in production deployments, incident management, root-cause analysis, and performance optimization.
The core requirements for the job include the following:
Azure:
Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
Azure PaaS services such as Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Storage, Azure SQL, Azure Key Vault, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Azure API Management
Good understanding of Azure networking, IAM/RBAC, security, and governance.
AKS / Kubernetes:
Strong hands-on experience with AKS.
Kubernetes architecture and administration.
Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, Namespaces.
Helm and Kubernetes manifests.
Horizontal Pod Autoscaler and cluster autoscaling.
Container troubleshooting and performance.

Experience
9-12 yrs