Area(s) of responsibility – Azure Cloud & Automation Specialist Position Title Azure Cloud & Automation Specialist Job Summary ________________________________________ Key Responsibilities Azure Cloud Infrastructure Management Design, deploy, and manage Azure cloud infrastructure and platform services.

Administer Azure subscriptions, resource groups, virtual networks, subnets, storage accounts, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Application Gateway, Azure API Management (APIM), App Services, and Function Apps.

Implement secure networking solutions including NSGs, private endpoints, private DNS, firewalls, and WAF policies.

Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of Azure-hosted applications and services.

Support production, test, development, and disaster recovery environments.

Azure

DevOps & Release Management Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.

Automate application and infrastructure deployments across environments.

Manage source code repositories, branch strategies, pull requests, and release processes.

Support infrastructure-as-code implementation and deployment through Terraform and Azure DevOps Pipelines.

Participate in change management and release planning activities.

Linux

Administration & Support Administer Linux servers including RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and other enterprise distributions.

Perform system provisioning, patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Manage user access, permissions, storage, networking, and security configurations.

Monitor system health and perform capacity planning.

Ensure compliance with organizational security and operational standards.



Automation & Scripting Develop automation solutions using Python, Ansible, PowerShell, Perl, PHP, and Shell scripting.

Automate infrastructure provisioning, system administration, configuration management, and operational tasks.

Create reusable automation frameworks, scripts, and runbooks.

Implement self-healing and event-driven automation solutions.

Reduce manual effort through process automation and orchestration. Monitoring & Observability Implement and manage monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and Grafana.

Create dashboards, reports, alerts, and performance metrics.

Monitor infrastructure, applications, databases, and services to ensure optimal performance.

Identify, investigate, and resolve incidents and performance bottlenecks.

Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) and problem management activities _______________________________________ Required Technical Skills Cloud Technologies Microsoft Azure

Azure App Services

Azure Function Apps

Azure API Management (APIM)

Azure Application Gateway & WAF

Azure SQL Database

Azure Key Vault

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Application Insights

Azure Networking DevOps & Automation Azure DevOps

Terraform

CI/CD Pipelines

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

GitHub Enterprise

YAML Pipelines

Configuration Management Linux Administration RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu

Linux Security & Hardening

System Performance Tuning

Server Administration & Troubleshooting Scripting Languages Python

Ansible

PowerShell

Perl

PHP

Bash/Shell Scripting Database Technologies Microsoft SQL Server

Azure SQL

Database Performance Tuning AI Technologies Microsoft Copilot

Copilot Chatbot

📌 Sr Manager-Cloud & Infra Engg (Chennai)
🏢 Birlasoft
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