Lead DevOps Engineer (Azure)

We are looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer with strong expertise in Azure cloud platforms to design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and automated environments. This is a senior role where you’ll drive platform reliability, embed security, and enable developer self-service at scale.

🔧 Responsibilities

• Build and manage Azure platforms using Terraform, Crossplane, AKS, GitOps, and shared pipelines
• Develop reusable code/templates in C# and Python for automation
• Embed security scanning, governance, and secrets management into CI/CD pipelines
• Apply SRE principles (SLOs/SLIs, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, postmortems)
• Optimize cloud costs through tagging, anomaly detection, and rightsizing
• Collaborate with teams, resolve incidents, and deliver high-quality operational support

🎯 Skills & Experience

• 2+ years of enterprise Azure experience (AKS, Container Apps, VNets, Key Vault, Entra ID, Azure Policy, Defender for Cloud, Monitor, SQL, Cosmos DB)
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Pod Security Standards
• Hands-on with ArgoCD, GitOps, Azure DevOps YAML pipelines
• Advanced use of Terraform, Crossplane, declarative desired state configuration
• Proficiency in Azure CLI, PowerShell, Bash, kubectl, helm, git, docker
• Experience with Snyk, SonarQube, vulnerability scanning, workload identity
• Database expertise in Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB with secure connectivity
• Bonus: Experience with Backstage developer portals and .NET/Python development