Job Profile: Technical Lead - Azure Administration

Experience required: 6-8 years

Qualification: Any Graduate

Work Location: Bengaluru

Communication: Good Comms Required

Joining timeline: 15-30days

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Role Overview

We are building a new Cloud Operations (CloudOps) department to establish strong operational ownership, governance discipline, and cost accountability across a complex Azure estate. This role joins the founding team and plays a critical part in defining industry-aligned standards where gaps currently exist.

The Senior

CloudOps Engineer acts as an operational authority responsible for reliability, security posture, financial governance, and day-to-day platform control across production and non-production environments. This is not a DevOps enablement or application delivery role. The mandate is to protect the platform, enforce guardrails, and translate business risk into technical controls.

CloudOps Mission & Operating Model The Cloud Operations team defines and enforces clear operational swim lanes between CloudOps, Platform Engineering,and Application Development. The team establishes industry-standard operating models, eliminates ambiguity around ownership, and ensures teams operate within defined boundaries. This role actively helps mature the organization from ad-hoc cloud usage to a governed, auditable, and cost-controlled operating model.

Core Responsibilities

- Own Azure operational reliability, uptime, and platform readiness
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident remediation
- Design and enforce Azure governance guardrails (Azure Policy, RBAC, PIM, naming, tagging)
- Own FinOps execution including rightsizing, reservations, savings plans, and spend accountability
- Operate AKS with focus on scaling discipline, node economics, and platform responsibility boundaries




- Maintain operational runbooks, SOPs, and formal change discipline

Operational Mindset

- Clear understanding that Operations, DevOps, and Development are distinct disciplines. Comfortable
- challenging unsafe designs, enforcing standards, and saying no when risk, cost, or governance boundaries are violated.

Mandatory Skills: Skill Set RequiredMust HaveGood to Have1Azure Core Expertise (6+ years): Robust hands-on experience managing Azure subscriptions, networking, identity, and RBAC.Yes 2Governance & Security: Implement and enforce Azure Policy, PIM, tagging, and compliance standards.Yes 3Operational Excellence: Handle incidents, perform root cause analysis, and ensure high availability of platforms.Yes 4Operations Mindset: Clear understanding of Operations vs DevOps vs Development responsibilities.

Yes 5FinOps: Optimize cloud spend through rightsizing, reservations, and savings plans.Yes 6AKS Operations: Operate and scale Kubernetes clusters with focus on performance and cost.Yes 7Certifications: AZ-305, AZ-104, AZ-900 (or equivalent knowledge).Yes 8Automation & Scripting: Automate routine tasks using PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Python. Yes9Monitoring & Observability: Configure and use Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Datadog for proactive monitoring. Yes10Security Posture Management: Work with Defender for Cloud and common compliance frameworks. Yes11Governance Hygiene: Identify and fix access or configuration drift across environments. Yes12Change & Process Management: Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and follow structured change control. Yes13Cross-Team Collaboration: Work effectively with Platform Engineering and Application teams. Yes14Infrastructure as Code: General knowledge of ARM, Bicep, or Terraform Yes15DevOps: Good general understanding of libraries, pipelines, service connections, permissions. Yes16Certification: ITIL 4 is a plus. Yes

📌 TECHNICAL LEAD - Azure (Bengaluru)
🏢 Happiest Minds Technologies
📍 Bengaluru