Lead Azure Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Keka Technologies Private Limited; Pune District; On-site; INR 250,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Comprinno is seeking an experienced Lead Azure Cloud & DevOps Engineer to lead enterprise cloud transformation, migration, modernization, and platform engineering initiatives on Microsoft Azure. This is a customer-facing technical leadership role combining architecture, DevOps, automation, migration consulting, project delivery, and mentoring a team.

You will work with enterprise customers, architects, delivery teams, presales, security, and business stakeholders to design secure, scalable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Strong expertise in cloud architecture, Azure, and DevOps practices.
• Proven experience leading technical teams and customer engagements.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Azure Cloud, DevOps, and Platform Engineers.
• Drive architecture reviews, code reviews, design guidance, and automation.
• Define Azure engineering standards, DevOps practices, automation frameworks, and reusable patterns.
• Build assets such as Terraform modules, Bicep templates, and deployment templates.
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, assessments, and capability development.
• Design enterprise Azure Landing Zones and governance structures.

Skills

Azure Cloud

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Solution Architecture

Presales

Leadership

Mentoring

Customer-facing

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Azure Kubernetes Service

Jenkins

Job description

Teerth techno space office, Pune (PNQ01)

Full-Time

About Comprinno

Comprinno is a NASSCOM-incubated technology company headquartered in Bangalore, with offices in Pune, Coimbatore, and the United States. We help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation through Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Automation, Platform Engineering, Managed Services, and Artificial Intelligence.

Our flagship SaaS platform, Tevico, provides intelligent cloud governance, observability, security, FinOps, compliance, and automation capabilities. It helps organizations improve reliability, optimize cloud costs, strengthen security, and automate operational workflows through proactive monitoring and remediation.

As a cloud consulting and managed services company, Comprinno partners with enterprises to migrate, modernize, secure, and operate mission-critical workloads while adopting cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, platform engineering, and AI-enabled operations.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Lead Azure Cloud & DevOps Engineer to lead enterprise cloud transformation, migration, modernization, and platform engineering initiatives on Microsoft Azure.

This is a customer-facing technical leadership role combining Azure architecture, DevOps engineering, infrastructure automation, migration consulting, project delivery, operational readiness, and team mentorship.

You will work closely with enterprise customers, architects, delivery teams, presales, security professionals, and business stakeholders to design and implement secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-efficient Azure solutions.

Beyond hands-on engineering, you will contribute to solution architecture, technical presales, migration strategy, Azure Well-Architected Reviews, landing-zone design, governance, and capability development within Comprinno’s Cloud Engineering practice.

The role involves regular customer interaction and may require travel across India and internationally for discovery workshops, architecture reviews, migration assessments, project kick-offs, escalations, and strategic consulting engagements.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead and mentor a team of Azure Cloud, DevOps, and Platform Engineers.
• Drive engineering excellence through architecture reviews, code reviews, design reviews, and technical guidance.
• Define Azure engineering standards, DevOps practices, automation frameworks, and reusable implementation patterns.
• Build reusable assets such as:
  • Terraform modules
  • Bicep templates
  • Azure DevOps pipeline templates
  • GitHub Actions workflows
  • Landing-zone accelerators
  • Automation scripts
  • Operational playbooks
• Participate in hiring, onboarding, technical assessments, and capability development.
• Foster a culture of automation, reliability, security, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Customer Consulting & Solutioning

• Lead customer discovery sessions, technical workshops, assessments, and architecture discussions.
• Understand customer business objectives, application portfolios, infrastructure estates, security requirements, and operational priorities.
• Translate business requirements into scalable Azure architectures and implementation roadmaps.
• Prepare:
  • Statements of Work
  • Technical proposals
  • Migration strategies
  • Implementation plans
  • Effort estimates
  • Architecture documents
  • Assumptions and risk registers
• Develop Total Cost of Ownership assessments and cloud cost-optimization recommendations.
• Conduct proofs of concept, technical demonstrations, and architecture validations.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor throughout the customer engagement lifecycle.
• Perform Azure Well-Architected Reviews and recommend improvements across reliability, security, operational excellence, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.
• Design and implement enterprise Azure Landing Zones aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Define subscription, management-group, identity, networking, policy, logging, and security structures.
• Build scalable, secure, resilient, and highly available Azure architectures.
• Design governance using:
  • Management Groups
  • Azure Policy
  • Role-Based Access Control
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Resource Locks
  • Tagging Standards
  • Azure Resource Manager
• Establish standards for account structure, access management, cost allocation, logging, monitoring, and compliance.
• Conduct architecture reviews and ensure designs align with customer and organizational standards.
• Architect and lead migrations from:
  • On-premises data centres
  • VMware
  • AWS
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Other hosting environments
• Lead discovery, assessment, dependency mapping, migration-wave planning, execution, and validation.
• Design and execute application, infrastructure, and database modernization initiatives.
• Recommend appropriate rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, or replace strategies.
• Design business continuity and disaster recovery solutions using Azure-native capabilities.
• Define and validate Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives.
• Support post-migration stabilization, optimization, and operational handover.
• Virtual WAN
• ExpressRoute
• VPN Gateway
• Network Security Groups
• Application Gateway
• Private Link and Private Endpoints
• Define hub-and-spoke, hybrid, and multi-region network architectures.
• Implement secure connectivity between Azure, on-premises environments, SaaS platforms, and other cloud providers.
• Troubleshoot complex network, routing, name-resolution, and connectivity issues.
• Design and implement enterprise DevOps platforms using:
  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitHub Enterprise
  • Jenkins or equivalent platforms
• Build CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native, containerized, serverless, and traditional workloads.
• Canary releases
• Automated rollback
• Establish source-control, branching, code-review, artifact-management, and release-governance standards.
• Improve developer experience through reusable pipelines, templates, self-service capabilities, and internal platform services.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Build and govern Infrastructure as Code using:
  • Terraform
  • Bicep
  • ARM templates
• Develop modular, reusable, secure, and version-controlled infrastructure components.
• Automate cloud provisioning, configuration, deployment, validation, and operational tasks.
• Integrate security, compliance, testing, and policy controls into infrastructure pipelines.
• Drive standardization and eliminate manual, inconsistent infrastructure implementations.
• Design, deploy, and operate container platforms using:
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Azure Kubernetes Service
  • Helm
• Implement GitOps operating models using Argo CD, Flux, or similar technologies.
• Design cluster networking, identity, ingress, storage, autoscaling, policy, monitoring, and security.
• Establish secure software-supply-chain and container-image-management practices.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across Kubernetes clusters and workloads.

DevSecOps, Security & Governance

• Embed security across the software-development and infrastructure lifecycle.
• Implement:
  • Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Azure Key Vault
  • Managed Identities
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • RBAC
  • Policy as Code
  • Secrets management
  • Vulnerability scanning
  • Security automation
• Design secure identity, privileged-access, network-segmentation, encryption, and logging controls.
• Support compliance and governance requirements across customer environments.
• Partner with security teams to remediate risks and strengthen cloud-security posture.

Monitoring, Observability & Reliability

• Design observability solutions using:
  • Azure Monitor
  • Log Analytics
  • Application Insights
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Datadog
  • ELK/OpenSearch
• Define logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, dashboard, and escalation standards.
• Establish and track Service Level Agreements, Service Level Objectives, and Service Level Indicators.
• Implement proactive monitoring, automated remediation, and self-healing capabilities.
• Improve platform reliability, availability, performance, and operational visibility.
• Analyze Azure utilization, cost trends, architectural choices, and commercial commitments.
• Identify opportunities involving:
  • Rightsizing
  • Reservations
  • Azure Savings Plans
  • Storage optimization
  • License optimization
  • Resource cleanup
  • Autoscaling
• Develop actionable cost-optimization recommendations.
• Embed cost visibility, tagging, budgeting, and financial accountability into cloud designs.
• Balance cost optimization with performance, resilience, and business requirements.

Managed Services & Operational Readiness

• Design production-ready Azure environments suitable for ongoing managed operations.
• Establish monitoring, alerting, backup, patching, automation, security, and support processes.
• Create runbooks, operational procedures, escalation paths, and service documentation.
• Conduct operational-readiness assessments before production handover.
• Transition customer environments into Managed Services with structured documentation and knowledge transfer.
• Collaborate with CloudOps teams to improve operational maturity through automation and standardization.

Project & Delivery Leadership

• Lead Azure cloud-transformation projects from planning through production deployment.
• Define milestones, technical workstreams, dependencies, delivery plans, and success criteria.
• Track delivery progress, technical risks, assumptions, dependencies, and quality.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams across Development, Security, QA, Infrastructure, CloudOps, Presales, and customer organizations.
• Lead major incident response and technical escalations.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensure delivery commitments remain aligned with approved scope and architecture.

Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

• Create and maintain:
  • Solution architecture documents
  • Architecture decision records
  • Deployment guides
  • Operational runbooks
  • Technical standards
  • Migration playbooks
  • Knowledge-base articles
• Deliver technical workshops and enablement sessions for internal teams and customers.
• Document lessons learned, implementation patterns, and reusable best practices.
• Contribute to Comprinno’s Cloud Center of Excellence and internal knowledge repositories.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline.
• 7–10 years of experience in Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Automation, or Cloud Consulting.
• Minimum 2–3 years of experience leading technical teams or complex technical workstreams.
• Strong customer-facing consulting, discovery, architecture, and stakeholder-management experience.
• Proven experience delivering enterprise Azure migration, modernization, or DevOps initiatives.
• Strong understanding of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and Azure Well-Architected Framework.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise Azure Landing Zones.
• Strong hands-on expertise across Azure compute, networking, storage, identity, databases, security, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Advanced proficiency in Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or equivalent Infrastructure as Code technologies.
• Strong experience building enterprise CI/CD platforms using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or comparable tools.
• Production experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service, Helm, and GitOps.
• Strong scripting and automation capabilities using PowerShell, Python, and/or Bash.
• Strong Linux and Windows administration experience.
• Advanced understanding of enterprise networking, hybrid connectivity, DNS, routing, load balancing, VPN, and ExpressRoute.
• Experience implementing DevSecOps, security automation, secrets management, and cloud-governance controls.
• Experience designing monitoring, observability, and incident-management solutions.
• Strong communication, presentation, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working within Agile or Scrum delivery models.
• Willingness to travel for customer engagements across India and internationally.

Certification Requirements

Mandatory—At Least One

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Preferred

• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
• Azure Security Engineer Associate

Desired Qualifications & Skills

• Experience with AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience executing cross-cloud or multi-cloud migrations.
• Familiarity with Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI.
• Experience with OpenShift, Rancher, Istio, or service-mesh technologies.
• Experience supporting Managed Services or Site Reliability Engineering environments.
• Knowledge of FinOps operating models and cloud-cost-governance practices.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted DevOps, AIOps, coding assistants, and platform-engineering tools.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service engineering capabilities.
• Experience supporting compliance-focused enterprise environments.
• Active participation in cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, or open-source communities.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong technical leadership and mentoring capability.
• Customer-first consulting mindset.
• Ability to connect architecture decisions with business outcomes.
• High ownership and end-to-end delivery accountability.
• Structured problem-solving and decision-making ability.
• Strong communication and executive presentation skills.
• Passion for cloud technologies, automation, security, and continuous learning.
• Ability to remain calm and effective during high-pressure escalations.
• Standards-driven approach with low tolerance for ad hoc or inconsistent implementations.

What Success Looks Like

• Successful delivery of Azure migration, modernization, DevOps, and platform-engineering programs.
• High customer satisfaction and trusted-advisor relationships.
• Secure, scalable, resilient, observable, and cost-optimized Azure environments.
• Consistent delivery within agreed scope, timelines, and quality expectations.
• Increased automation, reuse, standardization, and operational maturity.
• Smooth transition of production environments into Managed Services.
• Effective development and mentoring of engineering team members.
• Creation of reusable frameworks and accelerators that improve delivery quality and efficiency.
• Strong contribution to presales, solutioning, capability building, and business growth.

Why Join Comprinno

• Work across cloud migration, modernization, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, platform engineering, resilience, and automation.
• Partner directly with enterprise customers and influence strategic technology decisions.
• Build reusable solutions and strengthen Comprinno’s Microsoft Azure practice.
• Accelerate your career toward Cloud Architect, Practice Lead, Delivery Head, or Consulting Leadership roles.
• Gain exposure to multi-cloud environments, AI-enabled operations, and modern engineering practices.
• Access certification sponsorship, continuous learning, and mentorship opportunities.
• Join a collaborative, innovation-driven culture focused on engineering excellence and customer success.