Azure Software Design Engineer – Infrastructure, Quality & Live-Site

Aptly Technology Corp.; India; Remote; INR 1,500,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Apty Technology Corp. is seeking an experienced Azure Software Design Engineer with 5-7 years of relevant software engineering, cloud infrastructure, and live-site operations expertise.

The role focuses on Azure infrastructure software, hardware diagnostics, telemetry, RCA, and fault attribution in large-scale production environments. You'll develop backend services and diagnostics using C#, Python, PowerShell, C++, or Rust, and own SKU qualification, incident triage, and recovery workflows

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant professional experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, SRE, production engineering, or infrastructure diagnostics.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in C#, C++, Python, or PowerShell.
• Proven experience debugging, troubleshooting, fault isolation, and root-cause analysis of distributed production systems.
• Experience with live-site operations, incident management, triage, mitigation, and recovery workflows.
• Experience with telemetry, logging, diagnostics, monitoring, observability, and fault-attribution systems.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD workflows.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services, diagnostics, and infrastructure tools using C#, .NET, Python, PowerShell, C++, or Rust.
• Execute and monitor hardware SKU qualification and host networking pipelines, investigate failures, and rerun failed scenarios.
• Perform live-site incident triage, debugging, fault isolation, RCA, mitigation, and recovery.
• Analyze flaky tests and recurring failures and drive improvements in test coverage, reliability, scale, and execution efficiency.
• Monitor and troubleshoot HDTest and hardware diagnostic setup/execution failures.
• Develop and support hardware health monitoring, fault attribution, diagnostics, certification, remediation, and recovery workflows.
• Enhance telemetry, metrics, observability, monitoring, dashboards, and operational documentation.
• Support hardware-adjacent systems involving BMC, firmware, server management, provisioning, inventory, deployment, and device operations.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent technologies.
• Manage source code through Git, branching, pull requests, code reviews, and release workflows.
• Develop automation using C#, Python, and PowerShell to improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, networking, quality, PM, and datacenter operations teams.

Skills

C#

Python

PowerShell

C++

Rust

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Experience: 5-7+ Years
Domain: Azure Cloud Infrastructure | Software Engineering | Diagnostics | Quality Engineering | Live-Site Operations

Ideal Candidate Profile:
5-7+ years | C#/Python/PowerShell | Azure/Cloud Infrastructure | Distributed Systems | Live-Site & RCA | Hardware Diagnostics | Telemetry & Observability | Git/CI/CD | AI/HPC preferred

Pan India - remote role
Experience- 4+ works
Skills - C# .net, Azure Infrastructure

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Azure Software Design Engineer with 5-7 years of relevant experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or production engineering. The role focuses on developing and supporting Azure infrastructure software, hardware diagnostics, SKU qualification, telemetry/observability, and live-site operations. The ideal candidate will have strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills and be comfortable troubleshooting complex software, hardware, networking, and infrastructure issues in large-scale production environments.

• Develop and maintain backend services, diagnostics, and infrastructure tools using C#, .NET, Python, PowerShell, C++, or Rust.
• Execute and monitor hardware SKU qualification and host networking pipelines, investigate failures, and rerun failed scenarios.
• Perform live-site incident triage, debugging, fault isolation, RCA, mitigation, and recovery.
• Analyze flaky tests and recurring failures and drive improvements in test coverage, reliability, scale, and execution efficiency.
• Monitor and troubleshoot HDTest and hardware diagnostic setup/execution failures.
• Develop and support hardware health monitoring, fault attribution, diagnostics, certification, remediation, and recovery workflows.
• Enhance telemetry, metrics, observability, monitoring, dashboards, and operational documentation.
• Support hardware-adjacent systems involving BMC, firmware, server management, provisioning, inventory, deployment, and device operations.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent technologies.
• Manage source code through Git, branching, pull requests, code reviews, and release workflows.
• Develop automation using C#, Python, and PowerShell to improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, networking, quality, PM, and datacenter operations teams.

Required Qualifications

• 5-7 years of relevant professional experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, SRE, production engineering, or infrastructure diagnostics.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals in one or more of C#, C++, Rust, Python, or PowerShell.
• Proven experience in debugging, troubleshooting, fault isolation, and root-cause analysis of distributed production systems.
• Experience supporting large-scale cloud infrastructure, datacenter platforms, hardware management, or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with live-site operations, incident management, triage, mitigation, and recovery workflows.
• Experience with telemetry, logging, diagnostics, monitoring, observability, and fault-attribution systems.
• Experience with hardware-adjacent systems such as BMC, firmware, server diagnostics, inventory, provisioning, or deployment.
• Strong knowledge of Git and CI/CD workflows.
• Ability to independently investigate complex problems in ambiguous environments and drive them through resolution.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with distributed systems, orchestration engines, stateful workflows, and scalable control planes.
• Experience with Linux-based development and diagnostics.
• Experience with hardware diagnostics, health monitoring, certification, remediation, or recovery solutions.
• Knowledge of servers, networking, storage, rack-level architecture, and accelerator infrastructure.
• Experience with fleet management, firmware deployment, provisioning, inventory, or device operations.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep.
• Experience with AI/HPC infrastructure, GPU clusters, Bare Metal Instances, or hyperscale compute environments.
• Knowledge of RDMA, InfiniBand, and accelerator-focused infrastructure is an advantage.
• Understanding of reliability engineering, MTTR optimization, resiliency, and operational excellence.

Azure Infrastructure Focus

Experience in the following areas is highly desirable:

• Hardware health monitoring and fault attribution
• AI/HPC SKU onboarding and qualification
• GB300, VR200, MI455x, Maia300, or similar accelerator platforms
• Bare Metal Instance diagnostics and validation
• Device recovery and automated remediation
• Inventory, provisioning, firmware deployment, and certification
• Integration with Titan, SCHIE, OneMOS, APlat, and Azure infrastructure services

Preferred Certifications

• Microsoft Azure Developer Associate
• Microsoft DevOps Engineer Expert
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
• Relevant cloud, Linux, networking, or infrastructure certifications