Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Experience: 8+ years(including 4+ years running production workloads on Microsoft Azure)

Job Type : Contract,Remote(C2C,only inhouse profiles; independent contractors)

Work Hours: 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm IST (8-hour shift with a 1-hour break)

Duration: 6 months (Extendable)

The Role

Own the path from commit to production, and the running of live systems afterward, for enterprise client programmes on Azure. Releases are controlled by the pipeline: build once, promote the same artefact through every environment, verify on the running system, and roll back automatically on failure. About 70% hands-on, 30% client engagement, mentoring and reporting.

What You'll Do

- Build and run Azure DevOps CI/CD with digest-based promotion, health-gated slot swaps and automatic rollback

- Operate live production systems to agreed service levels, including incidents, DR testing, patching and cost control

- Manage all infrastructure through Terraform with drift detection, Key Vault, managed identities and private networking

- Integrate automated test and security gates into pipelines





- Work directly with the client's engineers and directors in design reviews, change approvals and incident calls

- Use AI tools for pipelines, scripts and incident triage, with every output reviewed and tested

- Direct and review junior DevOps engineers

Must-Haves

- Azure production experience (App Service, Functions, Container Apps or AKS, VNets, Key Vault)

- Azure DevOps multi-stage YAML, environments, approvals and service connections

- Production Terraform

- Docker, PowerShell, Bash, Python or Node.js, Azure CLI

- CI/CD test gates and static or security scanning

- On-call, incident, problem and change management, with App Insights, Azure Monitor and KQL

- Client-facing experience and transparent English

- Experience leading juniors and working independently

- BE/BTech in CS, IT or equivalent

Nice-to-Have

AZ-400, AZ-104, AZ-305, Terraform Associate, ITIL 4; Azure Policy; AKS, GitHub Actions or Bicep; AI/LLM workloads in production

Skills:- Azure Production, AKS, Azure Devops, Environmental, Production Terraform, Docker, Powershell, Python and Azure CLI

📌 Senior Azure DevOps Engineer (India)
🏢 Cloud Sara Technologies
📍 India