Azure Devops Engineer
Summary
An Azure DevOps Engineer in Chennai who handles daily DevOps requests within a cross-functional team: building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, managing releases and artifacts, provisioning Azure services, and enforcing policies using IaC tools like ARM templates, Bicep, and Terraform.
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.