Azure DevOps Engineer

Xminds Infotech Pvt Ltd; Thiruvananthapuram; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Xminds Infotech Pvt Ltd is seeking a senior Cloud Operations professional to strengthen governance, reliability, and cost discipline across Azure environments. You will drive operational reliability, security guardrails, and cost optimization across production and non-production workloads, working closely with platform and application teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on Azure infrastructure management, incident response, and scalable governance, with opportunities to optimize spend and implement

Qualifications

• 6-7 years hands-on experience managing Azure infrastructure at scale.
• Governance controls: Azure Policy, PIM, tagging, and compliance.
• Incident response, root cause analysis and high-availability operations.
• Cloud spend optimization including rightsizing, reservations, and savings plans.
• Experience operating AKS clusters.
• Proficiency with Azure Monitor and Log Analytics; Datadog.
• Familiarity with Defender for Cloud and compliance frameworks.
• Maintain runbooks and structured change management processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage Azure subscriptions, networking, identity, and RBAC at scale.
• Implement governance controls and tagging standards.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis.
• Optimize cloud spend with rightsizing and reservations.
• Scale AKS clusters and monitor with Azure Monitor.
• Collaborate with platform and application teams.

Skills

Azure governance

Azure Policy

RBAC management

Cost optimization (FinOps)

AKS Kubernetes

Azure Monitor

PIM

Incident response

Runbooks & SOPs

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

Datadog

Job description

We're strengthening our Cloud Operations function to improve governance, reliability, and cost discipline across our Azure environment. You'll work on operational reliability, security guardrails, and cost optimization across production and non-production environments, with close collaboration across platform and application teams.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 6-7 years of hands-on experience managing Azure infrastructure, including subscriptions, networking, identity, and RBAC at scale
• Strong experience implementing governance controls - Azure Policy, PIM, tagging standards, and compliance frameworks
• Proven track record in incident response, root cause analysis, and high-availability operations
• Experience optimizing cloud spend through rightsizing, reservations, and savings plans (FinOps)
• Practical experience operating and scaling AKS (Kubernetes) clusters
• Proficiency with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and third-party tools like Datadog
• Familiarity with Microsoft Defender for Cloud and common compliance frameworks
• Experience maintaining runbooks, SOPs, and structured change management processes
• Strong cross-team collaboration skills with platform and application teams

Preferred Skills

• Azure certifications (AZ-305, AZ-104, AZ-900) and scripting skills (PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Python) are a plus
• General knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (ARM, Bicep, or Terraform) is a plus