Sr Devops Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and manage Azure infrastructure, with a focus on networking: VNets, subnets, NSGs, peering, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, Private Endpoints, Azure Firewall, Load Balancer, Application Gateway and DNS.

• Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state management and environment promotion.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions, including reusable workflows, self-hosted runners, secrets management and deployment approval gates.

• Containerize applications with Docker and manage image builds, registries (ACR) and image security scanning.

• Deploy, operate and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters (AKS preferred), including Helm charts, ingress controllers, network policies, autoscaling and RBAC.

• Automate operational tasks using Bash/Shell scripting on Linux systems.

• Troubleshoot network connectivity, latency and routing problems across hybrid and cloud environments.

• Hands-on experience in datadog

• Apply security best practices: least-privilege access, secrets management (Azure Key Vault) and network segmentation.

• Write documentation for infrastructure, runbooks and operational procedures.

• Join incident response, root cause analysis and continuous improvement work.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Linux: Strong hands-on experience administering Linux systems (Ubuntu, Azure linux), including processes, services, permissions, networking and package management.

• Scripting: Advanced Bash/Shell scripting for automation, plus working knowledge of tools like [code]sed[/code], [code]awk[/code], [code]grep[/code], [code]jq[/code] and [code]curl[/code].

• Azure (Networking focus): Solid understanding of Azure networking components, hybrid connectivity, routing, DNS, and network security design.

• Terraform: Experience writing modular, production-grade Terraform code and managing state and workspaces.

• GitHub Actions: Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD workflows end to end.

• Docker: Experience writing optimized Dockerfiles and managing container lifecycles.

• Kubernetes: Hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting workloads, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps and Secrets

• Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, subnetting/CIDR, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, load balancing, firewalls and NAT.

• Experience with Git and branching strategies.

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.

Good to Have

• Introductory knowledge of a programming language such as Python or Go

• Experience with Kustomize, or GitOps tools like Argo CD or Flux.

• Hands-on experience with service meshes such as Istio

• Knowledge of DevSecOps tools like Trivy, SonarQube or Checkov.