Role Overview
We are looking for a skilled Azure DevOps Engineer who can
work effectively as part of a larger team to manage daily incoming requests and
ensure timely, high-quality delivery. The ideal candidate will be responsible
for setting up, maintaining, and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, managing Azure
services, and enforcing engineering standards and policies across projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate
with a larger cross-functional team (developers, architects, testers,
operations) to handle and deliver on daily DevOps requests.
- Design,
implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and/or GitHub.
- Manage
source code repositories, branching strategies, and version control best
practices (Azure Repos, Git).
- Own
release management, including build, deployment, artifact management, and
environment configuration.
- Provision,
configure, and manage Azure resources and services as per project
requirements.
- Implement
infrastructure as code (IaC) using ARM templates, Bicep, and Terraform.
- Enforce
and monitor Azure Policies to ensure compliance and standardization across
environments.
- Troubleshoot
and resolve issues in build, deployment, and production environments.
- Support
migration initiatives, standardization efforts, and platform modernization
activities.
- Work
closely with stakeholders to prioritize and manage workload, ensuring
timely and quality delivery of all DevOps tasks.
- Contribute
to documentation, playbooks, and standard operating procedures.
Required Technical Skills (Primary / MUST)
Azure DevOps & CI/CD
- Azure
DevOps (Azure Repos, Pipelines)
- GitHub
(including Actions/YAML workflows)
- YAML-based
pipelines
- CI/CD
implementation and optimization
- Release
management
- Artifact
management (e.g., Azure Artifacts, Artifactory)
- Git
(branching, merging, code review processes)
Azure Services
- App
Services, Function Apps, Logic apps
- Containers
(Azure Container Instances / similar)
- Storage
Accounts
- Azure
Data Factory & Data bricks
- Azure
SQL (Managed Instance, Elastic Pool, SQL Server)
- ARM
Templates
- Azure
Identity model: SPN, App registration, Managed identities
- Bicep
- Terraform
- Azure
Policies & RBAC
Secondary / Good-to-Have Skills
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift
- Docker
- OpenAI
services
- Solace
- RabbitMQ
- Feedhub
- SharePoint
- Migration
experience (applications, data, infrastructure)
- Experience
with standardization of environments, pipelines, and tooling
- Banking
domain experience
Additional Skills & Attributes
- Strong
ability to enforce policies, standards, and best practices across teams.
- Excellent
communication and collaboration skills.
- Strong
problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.
- Ability
to manage multiple concurrent requests and priorities in a fast-paced
environment.
- Proactive,
detail-oriented, and delivery-focused mindset.
Skills Required
- Azure DevOps, including Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines
- GitHub, including Actions and YAML workflows
- YAML-based CI/CD pipelines
- CI/CD implementation and optimization
- Release management and artifact management
- Git branching, merging, and code review processes
- Experience managing Azure App Services, Function Apps, Logic Apps, containers, and Storage Accounts
- Experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Azure SQL
- Infrastructure as code using ARM Templates, Bicep, and Terraform
- Azure identity services, including service principals, app registrations, and managed identities
- Azure Policies and role-based access control
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift and Docker
- OpenAI services, Solace, RabbitMQ, Feedhub, and SharePoint
- Application, data, or infrastructure migration experience
- Experience standardizing environments, pipelines, and tooling
- Banking domain experience
- Strong communication, collaboration, troubleshooting, prioritization, and delivery skills
What We Do
Kumaran Systems is an IT Services Company with imprints in three countries. The past two decades has seen us provide our global clientele with high-end IT services that include migration support, system integration and infrastructure management solutions, providing one-stop-solution to all your IT demands. Our expertise and in-depth knowledge of businesses help us cater to a variety of industries. Our team strives to know your industry better, by observing current trends and the way it works, to tailor-make our solutions to your needs.With over 20 years of customer orientation, over 2000 engagements across Telecom, Education and Banking & Financial services spread across the globe, Kumaran stands as a key advisor to some of the largest Fortune 500 companies in their business driven technology enablement drive. Kumaran System's Customer Orientation is driven by a global delivery business model giving its customers to choose between an Onshore-Offshore mix. The delivery models enable multilevel touch points between the client, partner networks and Kumaran thereby enabling business driven customer sensitivity and agility. ENGAGE, EMERGE AND EXCEL Involving ourselves in a purposeful action, using our abilities to its maximum, helps us feel positive about ourselves. Such positivity gives raise to positive thinking and positive ideas. Ideas evolve into vision and set our aim! Our aspirations engage us with the incentive of sweet success! Every endeavor has its own pitfalls. Perseverance helps us emerge a successful entrepreneur after any deterrent. In our attempt to achieve our aim, we keep upgrading our knowledge and skill, to surface successful! A genius mind does not work to excel, but excels in work! We challenge ourselves with every next step! We change every deterrent to a stepping stone to success. We essentially, engage, emerge and excel
