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Azure Devops Engineer

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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.


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