Azure Infrastructure Operations Engineer

InitiateFirst; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

InitiateFirst in Hyderabad is seeking an experienced Azure-focused professional to manage and harden VM infrastructure. The role encompasses provisioning VMs, scale sets, images, disks and extensions, along with OS hardening and configuration baselines for Windows and Linux.

You will plan OS patching using Azure Update Manager, validate host health after changes, troubleshoot patch delivery and connectivity issues, and document onboarding and extension health for smooth ownership handoffs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with Azure infrastructure and VMs.
• Experience with OS patching and maintenance windows.
• Ability to document changes and rollback paths.
• Strong troubleshooting of patch downloads and connectivity.

Responsibilities

• Provision and maintain approved VMs, scale sets, images, managed disks and extensions.
• Administer and harden Windows/Linux OS, maintain baselines, agents, access prerequisites and rollback paths.
• Plan and execute OS patching with Azure Update Manager and maintenance windows.
• Diagnose patch/download and connectivity issues; request scoped network exceptions.
• Document hybrid onboarding, extension health and ownership handoffs.
• Assess compute sizing, disk performance, availability and cost evidence.
• Prepare VM/PAM bootstrapping and vulnerability‑remediation evidence and support SAP hosts.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Azure

Azure Update Manager

Windows Server

Linux Administration

Patching automation

Cost optimization

Job description

Requirements:

• Experience: 5+ Years
• Provision and maintain approved VMs, scale sets, images, managed disks and extensions through standard infrastructure workflows.
• Administer and harden Windows/Linux operating systems, maintain configuration baselines, agents, access prerequisites and documented rollback paths.
• Plan and execute OS-only patching with Azure Update Manager and approved maintenance windows, validate host health after changes.
• Diagnose patch downloads, delivery optimization, service-context connectivity and cache issues, request narrowly scoped network exceptions through owners.
• Operate Azure VM agents and approved hosts, document hybrid onboarding, extension health and ownership handoffs.
• Assess compute sizing, disk performance, availability and capacity and recommend changes using measured workload and cost evidence.
• Prepare VM/PAM bootstrapping and vulnerability‑remediation evidence and support SAP hosts.

Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field