DevOps Engineer, Azure

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evolve CI/CD pipelines for microservices, embedding automated testing, gated promotions, and safe rollback strategies.
• Standardise and automate deployment patterns for containerised workloads, ensuring environments are versioned, reproducible, and consistent.
• Build and maintain Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, ensuring changes are peer-reviewed, traceable, and free from configuration drift.
• Reduce manual intervention through automation and engineering improvements.
• Improve system scaling, failover, retry, and resilience patterns across services.
• Support definition and tracking of service-level objectives, contributing to structured incident response and systemic post‑incident improvements.
• Strengthen observability across logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting to ensure services are diagnosable in production.
• Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines, including automated scanning and secure dependency practices.
• Improve secrets management, certificate lifecycle automation, and secure container practices.
• Increase cost visibility across Azure environments, implementing right‑sizing, scaling policies, and lifecycle management to reduce waste.
• Contribute to automation of operational workflows in event‑driven and distributed environments.

Requirements

• Strong experience operating production workloads on Azure in cloud‑native environments.
• Proven CI/CD design and implementation experience (Azure DevOps or equivalent tooling).
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (ARM, Bicep, or similar), with disciplined Git‑based workflows and peer‑reviewed changes.
• Experience working with containers (Docker) and understanding of orchestration concepts (Kubernetes desirable).
• Practical experience implementing observability solutions such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or OpenTelemetry.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering practices, structured incident response, and resilience patterns.
• Solid networking fundamentals, including private networking, TLS, ingress/egress controls.
• Experience with secrets management solutions such as Azure Key Vault and strong understanding of identity and access controls.
• Strong scripting and automation capability (PowerShell, Bash; Python desirable).
• Comfortable working in event‑driven environments (e.g., Azure Service Bus).