DevOps Engineer
Location: Baku, Azerbaijan
Type: Full-time
Company: DRL LLC
About eiGroup
At eiGroup, we believe ideas can change industries - but only if they are nurtured with structure, science, and courage.
We’re an R&D and Innovation Venture Studio that transforms human ingenuity into technological value that scales.
Our ecosystem brings together researchers, engineers, and creators who turn complex challenges into scalable products - from subsurface imaging to AI-driven analytics, from remote sensing to digital transformation.
Our ventures are built in-house, born from research, and grown into independent companies.
Together, we’re shaping how innovation takes root in this region - and how it reaches the world.
What You'll Do
- Own CI/CD across Azure Pipelines and GitLab CI: YAML pipelines, multi-stage builds, environment promotion, approvals, artifact and container publishing, shared templates so each team isn't reinventing its own build
- Provision and run our Kubernetes clusters, including standing up new ones from scratch with Rancher: workloads, ingress, secrets, resource limits, autoscaling, rollout and rollback strategy, Helm charts, version upgrades and etcd backups
- Own our Azure estate — App Services, compute, networking, storage, Key Vault, managed identities — alongside self-hosted services running on our own infrastructure, including cost hygiene and right-sizing
- Introduce Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Bicep) from a largely manual starting point: reusable modules, state management, real parity between environments
- Build and maintain monitoring and alerting: metrics collection, Grafana dashboards the teams actually use, centralised logging, and alerts that fire on real problems rather than noise
- Own production: releases, incident response, root cause, backup and restore drills, and an on-call rotation designed to stay quiet
- Manage secrets and access properly (Key Vault, managed identities, Entra ID, least-privilege RBAC) and put secret, dependency and image scanning into the pipelines
- Work with the Project Managers across our ventures: take in infrastructure requests, prioritise them honestly against each other, and propose the cheaper version when there is one
- Plan and report your work in Azure DevOps — break requests into tasks, create your own where the work originates with you, keep status current, and raise blockers early enough that PMs can plan around them
What You Bring
- 3+ years in DevOps, SRE or platform engineering, with real production ownership
- Strong hands-on Linux — comfortable in the shell, able to debug a failing service without a UI
- Proven CI/CD experience with Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI or equivalent, including pipelines other teams depend on
- Kubernetes in production: deployments, services, ingress, config and secrets, RBAC, autoscaling — and the ability to diagnose why a pod won't start or a rollout is stuck. Helm for packaging. You have built a cluster from scratch, not only deployed into one
- Solid Docker fundamentals: multi-stage builds, image size, base image hygiene
- Microsoft Azure: compute, networking, storage, Key Vault, managed identities, Entra ID, Azure Monitor
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or Bicep — nice to have
- Scripting in Bash plus Python or PowerShell — enough to automate a task properly instead of documenting a manual one
- Networking fundamentals: DNS, TLS and certificates, reverse proxies, load balancing, VNets, subnets, NSGs, firewall rules
- Databases from the operations side: backups and tested restores, connection pooling, working with developers on a slow query
- Sound security instincts — you notice the exposed secret, the public endpoint, the permission nobody needed
- Able to serve multiple teams with competing requests, work independently, estimate credibly and flag risk early
- Good written and verbal communication in English
Our benefits include:
- Medical insurance (family coverage)
- Flexible working hours
- Wellness program
- Childcare support
- Company-provided lunch
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering with production ownership
- Strong hands-on Linux and command-line troubleshooting skills
- Production CI/CD experience with Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI, or equivalent
- Production Kubernetes experience, including deployments, services, ingress, configuration, secrets, RBAC, autoscaling, troubleshooting, and cluster creation
- Experience with Helm for Kubernetes packaging
- Strong Docker fundamentals, including multi-stage builds and image hygiene
- Experience with Microsoft Azure compute, networking, storage, Key Vault, managed identities, Entra ID, and Azure Monitor
- Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or Bicep
- Scripting experience with Bash plus Python or PowerShell
- Networking fundamentals including DNS, TLS, certificates, reverse proxies, load balancing, VNets, subnets, NSGs, and firewall rules
- Database operations experience, including backups, tested restores, connection pooling, and slow-query troubleshooting
- Knowledge of security practices including secrets management, least-privilege access, dependency scanning, and image scanning
- Ability to prioritize competing requests, work independently, estimate work, and identify risks early
- Good written and verbal communication in English
What We Do
We are a group of engineers and innovators, working together to create and launch ingenious products and companies today for a sustainable tomorrow. Our vision is to paradigm shift R&D in the country, making it a competitive driver in the transformation of the national economy. With a mission to seed intellectual potential for a sustainable future, eiGroup embraces an integrated approach to research, development, and innovations that results in practical change across education and industries
