Senior DevOps Engineer

Our customer is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and run secure, automated Azure-based infrastructure. Core emphasis on resilient CI/CD pipelines, AKS/Kubernetes operations, and full-stack observability across global B2B workloads.

Ideal Candidate

A cloud-first DevOps professional with 6-10 years in production Azure environments, fluent in Terraform and GitOps. Comfortable owning AKS clusters end-to-end, loves automating everything, and can dive deep into performance tuning and incident response. Thrives in cross-functional settings with SRE, Security, and App teams, balancing reliability, speed, and cost.

Primary Duties

• Architect & maintain CI/CD infrastructure (canary, blue/green, IaC best practices)

• Automate AKS workloads with Helm/Kustomize via GitOps (ArgoCD)

• Implement secure, cost-optimised container deployments

• Build central logging/monitoring with Graylog/ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, App Insights

• Manage config, secrets, backups (Velero) and cloud-native stores (RabbitMQ, Redis, MinIO)

• Run performance testing (JMeter, Taurus) for high-volume B2B traffic

• Provide L3 escalation for complex pipeline or infra incidents

• Contribute to internal DevOps standards & documentation

Essential Skills & Tools

• 5 - 8 yrs DevOps/infra in cloud-native settings

• Azure DevOps, GitHub/GitLab CI, Bitrise

• AKS, Helm, container lifecycle management

• Terraform &/or Bicep, GitOps pipelines

• Observability stack: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Graylog, App Insights

• Azure security fundamentals (VNETs, WAFs, private endpoints, SSL, secrets)

• High-availability & autoscaling design

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Deep ArgoCD GitOps workflows

• Advanced CI/CD templates, multienvironment gating

• Artifact management & secure image delivery

• Release strategies: blue/green, canary, feature flags

• Cost-optimised infrastructure planning