TECHNICAL LEAD - Azure

Job Profile: Technical Lead - Azure Administration
Experience required: 6-8 years
Qualification: Any Graduate
Work Location: Bengaluru
Communication: Good Comms Required
Joining timeline: 15-30days
Job Description:
Role Overview
We are building a new Cloud Operations (CloudOps) department to establish strong operational ownership, governance discipline, and cost accountability across a complex Azure estate. This role joins the founding team and plays a critical part in defining industry-aligned standards where gaps currently exist. The Senior CloudOps Engineer acts as an operational authority responsible for reliability, security posture, financial governance, and day-to-day platform control across production and non-production environments. This is not a DevOps enablement or application delivery role. The mandate is to protect the platform, enforce guardrails, and translate business risk into technical controls.
CloudOps Mission & Operating Model
The Cloud Operations team defines and enforces clear operational swim lanes between CloudOps, Platform Engineering,and Application Development. The team establishes industry-standard operating models, eliminates ambiguity around ownership, and ensures teams operate within defined boundaries. This role actively helps mature the organization from ad-hoc cloud usage to a governed, auditable, and cost-controlled operating model.
Core Responsibilities
Own Azure operational reliability, uptime, and platform readiness
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation
Design and enforce Azure governance guardrails (Azure Policy, RBAC, PIM, naming, tagging)
Own FinOps execution including rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, and spend accountability
Operate AKS with focus on scaling discipline, node economics, and platform responsibility boundaries
Maintain operational runbooks, SOPs, and formal change discipline
Operational Mindset
Clear understanding that Operations, DevOps, and Development are distinct disciplines. Comfortable
challenging unsafe designs, enforcing standards, and saying no when risk, cost, or governance boundaries are violated.
Mandatory Skills:
Skill Set RequiredMust HaveGood to Have1Azure Core Expertise (6+ years): Strong hands-on experience managing Azure subscriptions, networking, identity, and RBAC.Yes 2Governance & Security: Implement and enforce Azure Policy, PIM, tagging, and compliance standards.Yes 3Operational Excellence: Handle incidents, perform root cause analysis, and ensure high availability of platforms.Yes 4
Operations Mindset: Clear understanding of Operations vs DevOps vs Development responsibilities.
Yes 5FinOps: Optimize cloud spend through rightsizing, reservations, and savings plans.Yes 6AKS Operations: Operate and scale Kubernetes clusters with focus on performance and cost.Yes 7Certifications: AZ-305, AZ-104, AZ-900 (or equivalent knowledge).Yes 8Automation & Scripting: Automate routine tasks using PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Python. Yes9Monitoring & Observability: Configure and use Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Datadog for proactive monitoring. Yes10Security Posture Management: Work with Defender for Cloud and common compliance frameworks. Yes11Governance Hygiene: Identify and fix access or configuration drift across environments. Yes12Change & Process Management: Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and follow structured change control. Yes13Cross-Team Collaboration: Work effectively with Platform Engineering and Application teams. Yes14Infrastructure as Code: General knowledge of ARM, Bicep, or Terraform Yes15DevOps: Good general understanding of libraries, pipelines, service connections, permissions. Yes16Certification: ITIL 4 is a plus. Yes

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