Azure Platform Engineer

InitiateFirst; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

InitiateFirst is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to manage infrastructure, pipelines, and container platforms. The role emphasizes Terraform-driven infrastructure, Azure DevOps governance, and cluster lifecycle planning across AKS services.

The position requires collaboration with teams to standardize automation, handle on-boarding, and ensure secure access, with a focus on stability and compliant rollbacks.

Qualifications

• Experience managing infrastructure using Terraform.
• Experience with Azure DevOps repositories, pipelines, and service connections.
• Ability to onboard teams and automate workflows in Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Maintain approved modular Terraform infrastructure and protect state.
• Validate plans, manage drift, and document rollback or recovery.
• Operate Azure DevOps pipelines, repositories, and service connections with least-privilege controls.
• Support onboarding of teams to existing Azure DevOps projects and improve automation.
• Operate AKS clusters, node pools, and container registries; plan upgrades and lifecycle changes.
• Troubleshoot image pulls, registry and network dependencies, and ingress issues.
• Coordinate deployment of App Service and Azure Functions hosting with standard modules and certificates.
• Provide platform support for ADF, Databricks, and approved AI services without owning pipeline logic.
• Oversee development-to-production infrastructure handoffs and incident evidence.

Skills

Terraform

Azure DevOps

AKS

CI/CD

Education

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

Tools

YAML pipelines

Service connections

Build/deployment agents

Job description

Requirements:

• Experience: 5+ Years
• Maintain approved modular Terraform infrastructure, protect state, validate plans, manage drift and document controlled rollback or recovery.
• Operate Azure DevOps repositories, YAML pipelines, service connections and build/deployment agents with least-privilege access and approved controls.
• Support work-item-driven onboarding of teams within existing Azure DevOps projects, improve documented automation.
• Operate AKS clusters, node pools, platform add-ons and container registries, plan supported-version upgrades and cluster lifecycle changes.
• Troubleshoot image pulls, registry/network dependencies, ingress and deployment platform failures, route whitelisting requests through Security approval.
• Provision and support approved App Service and Azure Functions hosting with standard modules, identities, certificates and deployment SOPs.
• Provide platform resource, access and connectivity support for ADF, Databricks and approved AI services without owning pipeline, notebook or model logic.
• Coordinate development-to-production infrastructure handoffs, platform vulnerability fixes, incident evidence.

Qualification:

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