DevOps Engineer, Azure

Jobtailor; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a platform engineer to design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines for microservices running on Azure. You will standardise deployment patterns for containerised workloads and build Azure infrastructure using IaC with peer-reviewed changes.

You will automate and improve reliability, observability, and security across environments, while driving cost visibility and scalable, event-driven automation.

Qualifications

• Strong experience operating production workloads on Azure in cloud-native environments.
• Proven CI/CD design and implementation experience (Azure DevOps or equivalent tooling).
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (ARM, Bicep, or similar), with disciplined Git-based workflows and peer-reviewed changes.
• Experience with containers (Docker) and Kubernetes concepts.
• Hands-on observability using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or OpenTelemetry.
• Solid reliability engineering practices and structured incident response.
• Networking fundamentals including TLS and private networking.
• Experience with Azure Key Vault and IAM controls.
• PowerShell, Bash; Python desirable for automation.
• Comfortable in event-driven environments (Azure Service Bus).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evolve CI/CD pipelines for microservices with automated testing and safe rollbacks.
• Standardise deployment patterns for containerised workloads with versioned environments.
• Build and maintain Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code with peer-reviewed changes.
• Reduce manual intervention through automation and engineering improvements.
• Improve scaling, failover, and resilience patterns across services.
• Support SLO definition and structured incident responses for systemic improvements.
• Strengthen observability with logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerts.
• Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines, including automated scans.
• Enhance secrets management and certificate lifecycle automation.
• Increase cost visibility across Azure environments via right-sizing and lifecycle mgmt.
• Automate operational workflows in event-driven and distributed environments.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD design

IaC

ARM/Bicep

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability

Incident response

Networking basics

Key Vault

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Event-driven

Tools

Azure DevOps

Git

OpenTelemetry

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evolve CI/CD pipelines for microservices, embedding automated testing, gated promotions, and safe rollback strategies.
• Standardise and automate deployment patterns for containerised workloads, ensuring environments are versioned, reproducible, and consistent.
• Build and maintain Azure infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, ensuring changes are peer-reviewed, traceable, and free from configuration drift.
• Reduce manual intervention through automation and engineering improvements.
• Improve system scaling, failover, retry, and resilience patterns across services.
• Support definition and tracking of service-level objectives, contributing to structured incident response and systemic post‑incident improvements.
• Strengthen observability across logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting to ensure services are diagnosable in production.
• Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines, including automated scanning and secure dependency practices.
• Improve secrets management, certificate lifecycle automation, and secure container practices.
• Increase cost visibility across Azure environments, implementing right‑sizing, scaling policies, and lifecycle management to reduce waste.
• Contribute to automation of operational workflows in event‑driven and distributed environments.

Requirements

• Strong experience operating production workloads on Azure in cloud‑native environments.
• Proven CI/CD design and implementation experience (Azure DevOps or equivalent tooling).
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (ARM, Bicep, or similar), with disciplined Git‑based workflows and peer‑reviewed changes.
• Experience working with containers (Docker) and understanding of orchestration concepts (Kubernetes desirable).
• Practical experience implementing observability solutions such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, or OpenTelemetry.
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering practices, structured incident response, and resilience patterns.
• Solid networking fundamentals, including private networking, TLS, ingress/egress controls.
• Experience with secrets management solutions such as Azure Key Vault and strong understanding of identity and access controls.
• Strong scripting and automation capability (PowerShell, Bash; Python desirable).
• Comfortable working in event‑driven environments (e.g., Azure Service Bus).