Role & responsibilities

Essential Duties and Key Competencies:

- A certified Azure Infrastructure skilled
- Experience of Azure IoT services, Datalake, VMs, Networking
- Design, configure, and manage Azure IaaS and PaaS services (VMs, VNets, NSGs, Storage, etc.)
- Set up resource groups, role-based access control (RBAC), Azure Policies, and naming conventions.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like ARM Templates, Bicep, or Terraform.
- Manage hybrid environments via Azure Arc, VPNs, and ExpressRoute.
- Implement cost optimization strategies using Azure Cost Management, budgets, and resource tagging.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps Pipelines or GitHub Actions for both infrastructure and applications.
- Integrate unit tests, code quality checks, security scans, and deployment validations in pipelines.
- Manage pipeline environments, approvals, secrets, and artifact versioning.
- Implement blue-green, canary, or rolling deployments for high availability.
- Collaborate with developers to containerize applications using Docker and deploy with AKS or Azure App Services.
- Set up DevOps toolchains (Git, Azure Repos, Boards, Pipelines, Artifacts).
- Champion DevSecOps practices by integrating security early in the development lifecycle.
- Drive shift-left testing, infrastructure testing, and automated validations.
- Enforce Git branching strategies and environment-specific configurations.
- Enable self-service provisioning for dev/test environments using IaC templates.
- Implement Azure Monitor, Log Analytics,



and Application Insights for observability.
- Configure alerts, dashboards, and workbooks for proactive monitoring.
- Set up Service Health alerts and Action Groups for incident response.
- Ensure backup, recovery, and disaster recovery using Azure Backup and Site Recovery (ASR).
- Conduct routine health checks, performance tuning, and SLA compliance audits.
- Deploy workloads like web apps, APIs, containers, serverless functions, and databases.
- Manage dependencies, configurations, scaling policies, and certificates/secrets during deployment.
- Use Deployment Slots, Feature Flags, and App Config for controlled rollouts.
- Validate deployments with post-deployment gates, smoke tests, and rollback mechanisms.
- Coordinate with stakeholders to align deployments with business timelines and change windows.
- Analyze existing infrastructure and recommend cost-effective, scalable, and secure architecture patterns.
- Refactor legacy workloads to cloud-native solutions (e.g., Functions, AKS, Logic Apps).
- Implement network and security hardening using Firewall, NSGs, Private Endpoints, and Key Vault.
- Apply Well-Architected Framework and Cloud Adoption Framework principles.
- Promote governance, compliance, and automation-first approach.
- Azure CLI, PowerShell, ARM, Bicep, Terraform
- Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
- Monitoring tools: Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics
- Networking, security, IAM (RBAC, Conditional Access)
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes (AKS)
- Windows/Linux server administration

📌 Cloud Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Tridiagonal Ai
📍 Pune