Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure
Location: Ahmedabad
Experience: 4+ years
Employment Type: Full Time
About Simform:
Simform is a premier digital engineering company specializing in Cloud, Data, AI/ML, and Experience Engineering to create seamless digital experiences and scalable products. Simform is a strong partner for Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Databricks. With a presence in 5+ countries, Simform primarily serves North America, the UK, and the Northern European market.
Simform takes pride in being one of the most reputed employers in the region, having created a thriving work culture with a high work-life balance that gives a sense of freedom and opportunity to grow.
Job Overview:
We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong background in Azure cloud infrastructure. This role is ideal for professionals who are passionate about automation, scalability, and ensuring best practices in CI/CD and cloud deployments. You will be responsible for managing and modernizing medium-sized, multi-tier environments, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and supporting application and infrastructure reliability and security.
Key Responsibilities:
Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for efficient and secure application deployment.
Lead infrastructure development and operational support in Azure, ensuring high availability and performance.
Work with modern containerization technologies like Docker, Docker Compose, and orchestrators like Kubernetes.
Implement and follow Git best practices across teams.
Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, preferably Terraform, to provision cloud resources.
Plan and enforce DevSecOps processes and ensure security compliance throughout the software development lifecycle.
Develop and monitor application and infrastructure performance using tools like Azure Monitor, Managed Grafana, and other observability tools.
Drive multi-tenancy SaaS architecture implementation and deployment best practices.
Collaborate with development teams to ensure alignment with DevOps best practices.
Troubleshoot issues across development, testing, and production environments.
Provide leadership in infrastructure planning, design reviews, and incident management.
Required Skills & Experience:
4+ years of relevant hands-on DevOps experience.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
Solid foundational knowledge in DevOps methodologies and tools.
Expertise in Azure cloud services, with a working knowledge of AWS also preferred.
Proficiency in Kubernetes, including deploying, scaling, and maintaining clusters.
Experience with web servers like IIS, Nginx and Apache.
Familiarity with the Well-Architected Framework (Azure).
Practical experience with monitoring and observability tools in Azure.
Working knowledge of DevSecOps tools and security best practices.
Proven debugging and troubleshooting skills across infrastructure and applications.
Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS platforms is a plus.
Experience in application performance monitoring and tuning.
Experience with Azure dashboarding, logging, and monitoring tools, such as Managed Grafana, is a strong advantage.
Azure professional certifications (e.g., AZ-400, AZ-305)
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in cloud migration and application modernization
Familiarity with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar
Leadership experience or mentoring junior engineers
Why Join Us:
Young Team, Thriving Culture
Flat-hierarchical, friendly, engineering-oriented, and growth-focused culture.
Well-balanced learning and growth opportunities
Free health insurance.
Office facilities with a game zone, in-office kitchen with affordable lunch service, and free snacks.
Sponsorship for certifications/events and library service.
Flexible work timing, leaves for life events, WFH and hybrid options
Skills Required
- 4+ years of relevant hands-on DevOps experience.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Solid foundational knowledge in DevOps methodologies and tools.
- Expertise in Azure cloud services.
- Working knowledge of AWS.
- Proficiency in Kubernetes (deploying, scaling, maintaining clusters).
- Experience with containerization: Docker, Docker Compose.
- Experience with web servers: IIS, Nginx, Apache.
- Use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, preferably Terraform.
- Familiarity with the Azure Well-Architected Framework.
- Practical experience with monitoring and observability tools in Azure (Azure Monitor, Managed Grafana).
- Working knowledge of DevSecOps tools and security best practices.
- Proven debugging and troubleshooting skills across infrastructure and applications.
- Experience in application performance monitoring and tuning.
- Azure professional certifications (e.g., AZ-400, AZ-305).
- Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
- Leadership experience or mentoring junior engineers.
- Experience in cloud migration and application modernization.
What We Do
Simform is a tech company with a mission to help successful companies extend their tech capacity. Founded in October 2010, we have helped organizations ranging from Startups that went public, to Fortune 500 companies, and WHO backed NGOs. Simform helps companies become innovation leaders by delivering software teams on demand. We help you - choose the right technologies to invest in, decide on the best architecture and processes to follow, and oversee the successful delivery of their software projects.
