Senior Associate-Devops

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud platforms primarily on Microsoft Azure. 

• Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and industry-standard DevOps tools to support rapid and reliable software delivery. 

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates, or equivalent. 

• Implement and support containerized application deployments using Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Container Apps, or similar cloud-native platforms. 

• Integrate security controls, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines following DevSecOps best practices. 

• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to engineering teams on DevOps, cloud, and platform engineering best practices. 

Key competencies 

• Collaborate with application development, architecture, and security teams to design and support deployment automation frameworks and release processes. 

• Implement monitoring, logging, observability, and incident management solutions to ensure platform reliability and operational excellence. 

• Support cloud networking, identity and access management, RBAC, API integrations, and enterprise security requirements. 

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on automation, platform modernization, operational efficiency, and cloud cost optimization. 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, MCA, or a related discipline. 

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure services, cloud architecture, governance, and platform engineering. 

• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipeline design, release management, and deployment automation. 

• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates, or equivalent). 

• Strong understanding of DevSecOps practices, cloud security controls, identity management, Key Vaults, secrets management, and compliance frameworks. 

• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure Container Apps. 

• Proficiency in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar languages. 

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and collaboration skills with the ability to work across multidisciplinary teams. 

• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions using enterprise monitoring platforms. 

• Strong knowledge of Git-based source control, branching strategies, repository management, and software delivery best practices. 

• Ability to troubleshoot complex application, infrastructure, networking, and deployment issues in cloud environments.