Azure DevOps Engineer
Summary
Senior engineer (via Novelus, embedded in a client's Mobility Labs team) builds and standardizes Azure DevOps YAML CI/CD pipelines to automate network-function deployments across lab environments. The role is 50% vendor management and 50% hands-on work with Azure, Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes, Linux, Ansible and Python.
This position is an Senior Azure Cloud Engineer role within our client’s pre-production
Mobility Labs group. The team is responsible for building and standardizing CI/CD pipelines
that automate how Network Functions are deployed across multiple lab environments,
with a future path to production deployments.
This role works closely with our client’s application teams and third-party vendors to
design, implement, and drive CI/CD automation using Azure DevOps (ADO). The focus is
on pipeline development, deployment automation, and workflow orchestration.
We are seeking a well-rounded professional who brings an equal balance of vendor
management expertise (50%) and hands‑on technical skills (50%). This role serves as a key
bridge between external partners and internal technical teams, ensuring vendors deliver
high‑quality solutions while also contributing directly to technical execution and problem
solving.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, build, and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment
- of Network Functions across lab and future production environments
- Collaborate directly with application teams and third‑party application vendors to
- Coordinate vendor deliverables, timelines, and dependencies with internal
- stakeholders
- Ensure vendors meet quality, security, and compliance standards
- Identify CI/CD improvements and standardization opportunities
- Support container‑based workflows using Docker and Kubernetes
- Create and troubleshoot Linux shell script templates from scratch
- Develop and maintain YAML‑based Azure DevOps pipelines, with emphasis on
- deployment activities
- Work with Azure DevOps agents, repositories, and pipeline templates
- Implement secure pipeline integrations using Azure Key Vault, service principals,
- Automate infrastructure configuration using Terraform (pipeline‑driven, not infra
- ownership)
- Use Azure CLI extensively for automation and troubleshooting
- Drive and lead technical discussions, design reviews, and working sessions
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures and deployment issues across environments
What You’ll Need:
- Strong (about 10+ years of experience) hands‑on experience with Linux and shell
- scripting
- Strong experience working with external vendors is mandatory
- Strong experience with Ansible and Python
- Expert-level understanding of Azure DevOps and Azure, including:
Azure DevOps Pipelines (especially YAML pipelines)
Azure Resource Manager (service connections, endpoints, service principals)
- Experience creating and maintaining deployment‑focused CI/CD pipelines
- Strong experience working with Git (branching, tagging, commits, pull requests)
- Solid understanding of CI/CD methodologies and best practices
- Strong working knowledge of YAML and JSON, including variable definition and
- Troubleshooting and working with different CNI/CSI is a nice to have