Senior Azure CloudOps Engineer

Adesso SE; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

adesso India is seeking a Senior Azure CloudOps Engineer to lead production-ready cloud operations for enterprise Azure platforms. You will architect, automate, and optimize Azure services, focusing on reliability, governance, and cost control.

You’ll collaborate with architects, developers, and delivery teams to implement IaC with Terraform, manage IAM, security, and monitoring, and drive continuous improvement across Azure App Services, PostgreSQL, and hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Azure Engineer or CloudOps Engineer in enterprise environments.
• Strong focus on security, compliance, and governance.
• Hands-on with Terraform and PowerShell automation.
• Extensive experience in monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident management.
• Expertise in Azure App Services, Web Apps, and Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and improve Azure operations for business-critical platforms.
• Gather and analyze operational requirements across Azure services.
• Build and maintain IaC infrastructure using Terraform.
• Design Azure architectures for hybrid and cloud-native environments.
• Operate and optimize Azure networking, IAM, governance, security, and platform reliability.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions; drive cost transparency.
• Support incident management, RCA, and service restoration in production.
• Create runbooks and incident reports; document operational procedures.

Skills

Senior Azure Engineer

Azure Operations Engineer

CloudOps Engineer

Terraform

PowerShell

Monitoring & Observability

Incident Management

Azure App Services

Backup & DR

FinOps

DevOps Processes

Release & Change Mgmt

Documentation

Ownership & Proactiveness

Distributed teams

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

Job description

As aSenior Azure CloudOps Engineer, you will be part of a specialized team responsible for enhancing the operational excellence of Azure-based customer platforms. You will design, automate, optimize, and support cloud operations across infrastructure, identity management, networking, observability, database operations, incident management, and platform reliability.

This is neither a pure development role nor a traditional support role. It is an end-to-end CloudOps position focused on production readiness, operational stability, and continuous improvement.

Your Responsibilities

Design, implement, and continuously improve Azure operations for business-critical enterprise platforms.

Gather, analyze, and evaluate operational and technical requirements across Azure services.

Build and maintain automated infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).

Design and implement Azure architectures for hybrid and cloud-native environments.

Operate and optimize Azure services across:

• Networking
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Governance
• Security and Compliance
• Platform Reliability

Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.

Drive operational excellence for Azure App Services and Web Apps.

Operate and support Azure Database for PostgreSQL, including:

• Backup and recovery procedures
• Performance tuning
• Availability and maintenance management
• Operational troubleshooting

Support incident management, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and service restoration in production environments.

Create and maintain runbooks, operational documentation, support handover guides, and incident reports.

Drive Azure cost transparency and optimization initiatives.

Support integration with enterprise tools such as:

• New Relic
• Vault and other secrets management solutions

Collaborate closely with lead developers, architects, DevOps engineers, QA engineers, product owners, and delivery teams.

Contribute to the development of structured support processes and operational readiness for on-call environments.

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YOUR PROFILE

Must-have Skills

Proven experience as a Senior Azure Engineer, Azure Operations Engineer, or CloudOps Engineer in enterprise or business-critical environments.

Strong expertise in:

• Security & Compliance

Hands-on experience with:

• Terraform
• PowerShell

Strong experience in:

• Monitoring, Logging, and Alerting
• Incident Management and Troubleshooting
• Performance and Stability Optimization
• Azure App Services and Web Apps
• Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery Procedures
• Cost Management and FinOps Fundamentals

Practical knowledge of:

• DevOps Processes
• Release and Change Management Processes

Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

High level of ownership and proactive working style.

Ability to work effectively within distributed delivery teams.

Strong documentation skills and structured communication approach.

Nice-to-have Skills

Experience with New Relic integration.

Experience with HashiCorp Vault or similar secrets management solutions.

Experience with AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) and Kubernetes.

Microsoft Azure certifications such as:

• AZ-104
• AZ-305
• AZ-400

Experience working in regulated enterprise environments or the utilities and energy sector.

What We Expect from You

• Understand that successful cloud engineering extends beyond implementation and includes reliable operations.
• Ability to work independently while aligning with architectural standards and customer expectations.
• Comfortable working within structured enterprise delivery environments.
• Strong written communication skills for tickets, technical reports, runbooks, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) documentation.
• Take ownership of operational challenges and drive them through to resolution.

Why Join adesso

• Work on enterprise-scale Azure platforms with significant business impact.
• Be part of a specialized cloud engineering team.
• Contribute to production-grade cloud operations, not just project delivery.
• Collaborate in an international environment with strong engineering practices and standards.
• Grow your expertise across Azure architecture, automation, operations, and customer delivery.

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