Senior DevOps Engineer

Position: Senior DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

The Senior DevOps / Cloud Engineer leads the automation, configuration, deployment, monitoring, and operational enablement of enterprise platform environments and services within Microsoft Azure. This role establishes and maintains CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, environment configuration, release automation, observability, security controls, secrets management, and operational tooling required to support reliable delivery across development, testing, staging, and production environments.

Working closely with developers, architects, testers, cybersecurity specialists, and operations teams, the successful candidate will improve deployment consistency, reduce manual effort, enhance traceability, and support secure and repeatable releases. This role also applies senior software development expertise to build tools, scripts, utilities, and platform services while supporting troubleshooting and platform operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for enterprise platform applications.
  
• Provision and configure cloud infrastructure and platform services using approved automation practices.
  
• Develop and maintain tools, scripts, utilities, APIs, reusable automation, and supporting platform components.
  
• Contribute production-quality code including unit tests, debugging, code reviews, documentation, and maintenance.
  
• Assist development teams with troubleshooting application code, dependencies, build failures, automated tests, integrations, environment configurations, pipelines, and deployment issues.
  
• Manage development, testing, staging, and production environments.
  
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, dashboards, and operational reporting.
  
• Support secure configuration, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and compliance controls.
  
• Coordinate releases, environment readiness, deployment validation, rollback, and stabilization activities.
  
• Improve reliability, scalability, recoverability, developer experience, and operational efficiency.
  
• Diagnose and resolve application, infrastructure, deployment, pipeline, and production issues.
  
• Maintain source code repositories, runbooks, configuration records, technical documentation, and knowledge-transfer materials.
  

Required Experience

• Experience designing and operating DevOps practices for large cloud-based enterprise applications.
  
• Experience with Microsoft Azure infrastructure, platform services, networking, identity, security, and monitoring.
  
• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for application, integration, infrastructure, and database changes.
  
• Experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management, containerization, and deployment automation.
  
• Experience supporting microservices, APIs, distributed applications, and multiple delivery environments.
  
• Experience developing software, scripts, utilities, APIs, or internal tools using modern programming languages.
  
• Experience applying software development practices such as source control, code review, unit testing, debugging, refactoring, and technical documentation.
  
• Experience assisting developers with troubleshooting application code, dependencies, builds, automated tests, integrations, pipelines, and deployments.
  
• Experience implementing logging, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, tracing, and operational health checks.
  
• Experience managing secrets, certificates, environment configuration, access controls, and secure deployment practices.
  
• Experience supporting release management, environment readiness, rollback, disaster recovery, and production stabilization.
  
• Experience troubleshooting complex application, deployment, infrastructure, performance, availability, and integration issues.
  
• Experience collaborating effectively with developers, architects, security specialists, testers, and operations teams.
  

Skills & Qualifications

DevOps and Automation Experience (35%)

• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code.
  
• Experience supporting multiple environments and complex release processes.
  
• Experience developing tools, scripts, utilities, APIs, or automation using modern programming languages and software development practices.
  
• Experience using source control, code review, unit testing, debugging, and documentation to deliver maintainable operational tooling.
  

Microsoft Azure and Cloud Operations (30%)

• Experience with Azure infrastructure, platform services, networking, identity, monitoring, and security.
  
• Experience operating and supporting microservices, APIs, distributed applications, and cloud-based development tools.
  
• Experience helping developers diagnose and resolve application, integration, build, test, pipeline, environment, and deployment problems.
  

Reliability, Security, and Monitoring (20%)

• Experience with observability, incident response, resiliency, backup, recovery, and secure configuration.
  

Communication and Collaboration (15%)

• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
  
• Ability to coordinate effectively with delivery, security, and operations teams.
  

Must-Have Skills

• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and infrastructure as code.
  
• Experience supporting multiple environments and complex release processes.
  
• Experience developing tools, scripts, utilities, APIs, or automation using modern programming languages and software-development practices.
  
• Experience with Azure infrastructure, platform services, networking, identity, monitoring, and security.
  
• Experience operating and supporting microservices, APIs, distributed applications, and cloud-based development tools.
  

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