Lead Azure Platform and DevOps Engineer

Location: Noida, India

Department: PE-Cloud

Experience: 8+ Years

• Lead the assessment and modernization of cloud infrastructure, DevOps processes, release management, and engineering platform capabilities.
• Design and build end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Azure Pipelines for frontend applications, backend services, APIs, and supporting platform components.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for provisioning and managing Azure resources using Bicep, Terraform, or ARM templates.
• Define Azure landing zones, networking, identity, governance, monitoring, and environment management aligned with cloud best practices.
• Lead containerization initiatives using Docker and Kubernetes, including deployment and management of applications on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Implement DevSecOps practices including security gates, dependency scanning, SAST, secret management using Azure Key Vault, automated policy enforcement, and deployment approval workflows.
• Establish GitHub Enterprise best practices, including repository strategy, branching standards, pull request governance, code quality checks, and release automation.
• Design deployment strategies supporting blue/green, rolling, and canary deployments while minimizing production risk.
• Implement application monitoring, logging, observability, alerting, and operational dashboards using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights.
• Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to ensure platform capabilities align with the future-state technical architecture and modernization objectives.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and DevOps governance across engineering teams throughout the modernization and delivery lifecycle.

• 10+ years of experience in Azure cloud engineering, DevOps, and platform engineering.
• Deep expertise with GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and Azure Pipelines.
• Strong experience designing enterprise CI/CD pipelines for frontend, backend, APIs, and microservices.
• Extensive experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates).
• Hands-on experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Docker, container orchestration, and container lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of Azure services including App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure API Management, Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions, Virtual Networks, and Azure Monitor.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps practices including SAST, dependency scanning, vulnerability management, secrets management, policy enforcement, and secure software supply chains.
• Experience designing deployment strategies, release governance, environment management, and production deployment automation.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, observability, logging, performance tuning, and operational excellence.
• Experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud modernization and migration initiatives.

• Strong expertise in GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep, or ARM Templates (IaC).
• Strong experience with AKS, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Expertise in Azure services, DevSecOps, monitoring, and deployment automation.
• Excellent leadership, troubleshooting, and communication skills.

• GitHub Advanced Security.
• Azure Well-Architected Framework.
• Kubernetes security and governance.
• Policy as Code (Azure Policy, OPA).
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
• Platform Engineering.
• Enterprise cloud modernization and migration programs.

• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proactive, ownership-driven, and quality-focused.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Adaptable with a continuous learning mindset.