Role: Lead Azure Platform and DevOps Engineer

Location: India, Remote

Experience: 8+ Years

Role overview

The Lead Azure Platform DevOps Engineer will lead the assessment, design, implementation, and modernization of the cloud engineering platform supporting enterprise applications. This role is responsible for establishing Azure infrastructure, GitHub-based DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container platforms, security automation, and deployment governance. The individual will define and implement a modern DevSecOps platform that enables secure, scalable, and automated application delivery.

Key responsibilities:

- Lead the assessment and modernization of cloud infrastructure, DevOps processes, release management, and engineering platform capabilities.
- Design and build end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines for frontend applications, backend services, APIs, and supporting platform components.
- Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for provisioning and managing Azure resources using Bicep, Terraform, or ARM templates.
- Define Azure landing zones, networking, identity, governance, monitoring, and environment management aligned with cloud best practices.
- Lead containerization initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment and management of applications on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Implement DevSecOps practices including security gates, dependency scanning, SAST, secret management using Azure Key Vault, automated policy enforcement, and deployment approval workflows.
- Establish GitHub Enterprise best practices, including repository strategy, branching standards, pull request governance, code quality checks, and release automation.




- Design deployment strategies supporting blue/green, rolling, and canary deployments while minimizing production risk.
- Implement application monitoring, logging, observability, alerting, and operational dashboards using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
- Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities align with the future-state technical architecture and modernization objectives.
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and DevOps governance across engineering teams throughout the modernization and delivery lifecycle.

Required skills and experience:

- 10+ years of experience in Azure cloud engineering, DevOps, and platform engineering.
- Deep expertise with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Azure Pipelines.
- Strong experience designing enterprise CI/CD pipelines for frontend, backend, APIs, and microservices.
- Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates).
- Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker, container orchestration, and container lifecycle management.
- Strong understanding of Azure services including App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure API Management, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, Virtual Networks, and Azure Monitor.
- Experience implementing DevSecOps practices including SAST, dependency scanning,



vulnerability management, secrets management, policy enforcement, and secure software supply chains.
- Experience designing deployment strategies, release governance, environment management, and production deployment automation.
- Strong knowledge of monitoring, observability, logging, performance tuning, and operational excellence.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud modernization and migration initiatives.

Must have skills:

- Robust expertise in GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates (IaC).
- Strong experience with AKS, Docker, and container orchestration.
- Expertise in Azure services, DevSecOps, monitoring, and deployment automation.
- Excellent leadership, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

Nice to have skills:

- GitHub Advanced Security.
- Azure Well-Architected Framework.
- Kubernetes security and governance.
- Policy as Code (Azure Policy, OPA).
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Platform Engineering.
- Enterprise cloud modernization and migration programs.

Desired attributes:

- Strong leadership and mentoring abilities.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proactive, ownership-driven, and quality-focused.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
- Adaptable with a continuous learning mindset.

Interview process

2 rounds of discussion.

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