Job Title: Expert DevOps Engineer

Experience: 9–12+ Years
Location: Pune / Chennai
Work Model: Hybrid – 3 Days Work From Office
Budget: Open for the right candidate
Payroll: Haparz

Job Overview

We are looking for an experienced Expert DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in Microsoft Azure, Cloud Infrastructure Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and DevOps transformation.

The ideal candidate should have extensive hands-on experience designing, architecting, implementing, and managing enterprise-scale Azure environments, along with the ability to provide technical leadership, mentor DevOps engineers, and drive infrastructure automation and cloud security initiatives.

This role requires a combination of deep technical expertise, architectural decision-making, strategic thinking, and team leadership.

Key Responsibilities

- Provide technical leadership and define the DevOps strategy, architecture, and roadmap aligned with business and engineering objectives.
- Design, architect, and implement scalable, highly available, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure.
- Lead the design, development, implementation, and troubleshooting of complex CI/CD pipelines to improve application delivery and deployment efficiency.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption using Terraform, ARM Templates, Bicep, or equivalent tools.
- Establish DevOps best practices covering infrastructure automation, configuration management, deployment strategies, monitoring, and operational excellence.
- Implement cloud security controls, identity and access management, governance, compliance, and security automation.
- Identify infrastructure bottlenecks, technical debt, and operational risks, and implement long-term solutions.
- Collaborate with engineering, architecture, product, and security teams to define cloud infrastructure strategies and technical roadmaps.
- Lead, mentor, and develop DevOps engineers,



encouraging technical excellence and continuous improvement.
- Drive automation initiatives using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or other programming languages.
- Establish monitoring, logging, incident management, disaster recovery, and infrastructure reliability practices.
- Communicate technical architecture, risks, recommendations, and solutions effectively to senior management and stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

- 9+ years of overall experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering, with significant technical leadership experience.
- Extensive hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure cloud services and enterprise cloud architecture.
- Proven experience designing and implementing large-scale, secure, scalable, and highly available Azure solutions.
- Solid experience designing, implementing, managing, and troubleshooting complex CI/CD pipelines.
- Advanced knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM Templates, Bicep, or equivalent tools.
- Strong scripting and automation experience using PowerShell and Bash.
- Good understanding of cloud security, governance, compliance, identity management, and access controls.
- Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and technically guiding DevOps teams.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, architectural decision-making, and problem-solving abilities.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent qualification.

Good to Have

- Experience with AWS, GCP, or multi-cloud environments.
- Azure certifications such as:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate.
- Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and enterprise cloud compliance.
- Exposure to Kubernetes, Docker, container orchestration, and microservices infrastructure.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools.
- Programming experience in Python, Java, or Go.
- Experience driving DevOps transformation and cloud modernization initiatives.

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Chennai, Tamil Nadu

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