We are seeking an Azure Infrastructure Engineer to lead Azure Platform Engineering, AIOps enablement, and enterprisegrade API integrations.

This is a handson, senior technical role responsible for building and operating a scalable Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that enables deep automation, observability, and AIdriven operations through Pythonbased services and APIfirst integrations across Azure, DevOps, monitoring, and ITSM ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Engineering & Leadership

- Own the Azure platform architecture, roadmap, and engineering standards.

- Define golden paths, reusable platform services, and selfservice capabilities.

- Act as the technical authority and escalation point for platform and CloudOps integrations.

Azure Infrastructure & InfrastructureasCode

- Architect and govern enterprisescale Azure infrastructure using Terraform (IaCfirst).

- Ensure consistent implementation of landing zones, networking, identity, and governance.

- Review Terraform modules for security, scalability, and operational readiness.

CI/CD, Automation & Python Engineering

- Define and lead Azure DevOps CI/CD standards using YAML pipelines.

- Build Pythonbased automation, including:

- Orchestration and workflow engines

- Platform utilities, health checks, and guardrails

- Alert and eventdriven remediation

- Integrate automation into CI/CD and operational workflows.

API Integration & Platform Connectivity (Core Focus)

- Serve as the API Integration Specialist, owning integrations across:

- Azure services (ARM, Azure Monitor,



Log Analytics, AKS, Key Vault)

- Azure DevOps (pipelines, repos, artifacts, boards)

- Observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Azure Monitor)

- ITSM / Operations tools (ServiceNow, incident and ticketing systems)

- Design APIdriven workflows using Python (REST, webhooks, eventdriven).

- Standardize authentication, authorization, and secrets management.

- Ensure integrations are secure, resilient, observable, and automationready.

Kubernetes & CloudNative Platforms

- Provide technical leadership for AKS platform architecture and operations.

- Define standards for networking, security, scaling, and lifecycle management.

- Guide teams on Helmbased deployments and cloudnative patterns.

AIOps & Observability

- Own the AIOps strategy for Azure CloudOps, including:

- Alert correlation and noise reduction

- Anomaly detection and predictive insights

- APIdriven and Pythonbased automated remediation

- Standardize observability data for AIOps consumption.

- Continuously improve MTTR, availability, and operational efficiency.

CrossTeam Leadership

- Mentor and lead platform and Azure infrastructure engineers.

- Partner with Security,



FinOps, SRE, and CloudOps teams.

- Produce SOPs, runbooks, and API contracts suitable for L1/L2 and AIOps automation.

BusinessasUsual (BAU) & Rotational Support

- Own BAU platform and CloudOps operations, ensuring stability and reliability.

- Participate in rotational oncall support, acting as Lead escalation for:

- Production incidents and service degradation

- AKS, Azure infrastructure, and CI/CD failures

- Drive incident triage, RCA, and postincident reviews, feeding outcomes into:

- Platform improvements

- Automation and AIOps use cases

- SOPs and runbooks

- Progressively automate BAU operations using Python, APIs, and CI/CD workflows.

- Partner with L1/L2 teams to shift left via automation and AIOps.

Required Skills & Experience

- Deep expertise in Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, identity, governance).

- Strong handson experience with Terraform at enterprise scale.

- Advanced experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD and YAML pipelines.

- Strong experience with AKS / Kubernetes.

- Robust Python proficiency for automation and integrations.

- Strong experience with REST APIs, webhooks, and eventdriven architectures.

- Proven leadership in platform engineering, DevOps, or CloudOps.

- Practical experience or strong exposure to AIOps and observability.

Nice to Have: FastAPI/Flask, Helm, GitOps, policyascode, FinOps.
Role & responsibilities

Preferred candidate profile

Perks and benefits

📌 Azure Infrastructure Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 AlgoLeap Technologies
📍 Hyderabad