Microsoft Azure Developer

Location: Basel, Basel City, Switzerland

Department: Switzerland

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: full

Description

About the role

We are looking for a Microsoft Azure Developer to design, build, and maintain cloud applications and integrations on Microsoft Azure. You will develop APIs, background services, and event-driven workflows, and work with product, architecture, security, and platform teams to deliver and operate them in production.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test cloud applications, REST APIs, and integrations using services such as Azure Functions, Azure App Service, Azure Service Bus, and Azure API Management.
• Translate business requirements into technical designs and contribute to architecture decisions, effort estimates, and code reviews.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions, and automate Azure resource provisioning using Bicep or Terraform.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization using Microsoft Entra ID and managed identities. Use Azure Key Vault to manage secrets and certificates.
• Instrument applications with logs, metrics, and traces using Azure Monitor and Application Insights. Diagnose production issues and implement fixes that address their root causes.
• Improve application reliability, performance, and cost efficiency, and maintain technical documentation and operational runbooks.

Requirements

Required qualifications

• Hands-on experience developing, deploying, and supporting applications on Microsoft Azure in production.
• Proficiency in at least one backend development stack, such as C# and .NET, Java, Python, or TypeScript and Node.js.
• Experience designing REST APIs, integrating systems through asynchronous messaging, and working with relational or NoSQL databases.
• Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, including role-based access control, managed identities, and secrets management.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed applications using logs, metrics, and traces.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with Azure Container Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service, or Docker.
• Familiarity with Azure SQL Database, Azure Cosmos DB, or Azure Storage.
• Experience designing for resilience, including retry policies, idempotent message processing, and dead-letter handling.
• Experience with performance testing, production incident response, or cloud cost optimization.