Senior Devops Engineer - Azure

Kovai Limited; Coimbatore District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Kovai Limited is looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer specializing in Azure in Coimbatore District, Tamil Nadu. The role involves designing and maintaining Azure Kubernetes Service environments, optimizing cloud infrastructure costs, and implementing DevSecOps practices. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure management, deep knowledge of AKS, and hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD tools. Strong communication skills are essential as you will collaborate with project teams for platform stability and reliability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure management with deep experience in Microsoft Azure.
• Deep knowledge of AKS or similar Kubernetes offerings.
• Strong understanding of Microsoft Azure services.
• Hands-on experience in integrating security tools.
• Familiar with CI/CD processes and tools like Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain Azure Kubernetes Service environments for high availability.
• Manage cloud infrastructure costs and perform optimizations.
• Implement DevSecOps practices in CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor system health and performance proactively.
• Provide production support for Azure and on-premise applications.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure management

Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service

Security tools integration

Azure DevOps proficiency

CI/CD tools

.NET Programming knowledge

Infrastructure as code with Azure CLI

Strong communication skills

Agile development experience

Tools

Ansible

Jenkins

TeamCity

Octopus

Azure DevOps

Git

Maven

Chef

Puppet

Job description

Lead DevOps Engineer – Azure

What you’ll do on the job:

• Design, build, and maintain resilient Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments to ensure high availability and fault tolerance.
• Proactively monitor and manage cloud infrastructure costs, implementing optimization strategies to prevent budget overruns.
• Continuously monitor system health, performance, and availability, taking both proactive and reactive measures to ensure platform stability and reliability. Drive adoption and use of Azure DevOps boards, code repositories, build pipelines and release pipelines.
• Implement DevSecOps practices to integrate security into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring secure code delivery and infrastructure compliance.
• Automate security checks and vulnerability scans across development and deployment workflows.
• Help define appropriate levels of governance around use and adoption of all aspects of Azure DevOps.
• Significant contributor to defining and building a DevOps toolchain by evaluating new tools and capabilities that accelerate software delivery and integrate these solutions into build and release pipelines.
• Build DevOps solutions and capabilities that can be shared across teams.
• Production support for the Azure/On‑premise hosted applications. Includes Azure Administration, Azure Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Storage Accounts, Traffic Manager.
• Design and implement system security and data assurance.
• Identify and assist with the implementation of Azure service offerings.

Who’ll be a good fit:

• 7+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure management, with deep experience in Microsoft Azure.
• Deep knowledge of AKS or similar Kubernetes offerings. Preferred if you have experience migrating production systems to Kubernetes.
• Hands‑on experience in integrating and driving security tools.
• Hands‑on experience with Azure DevOps and Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools like Ansible, Jenkins, TeamCity, Octopus or VSTS Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Good understanding of .NET Programming and ability to debug .NET applications as needed as part of performance improvement.
• Build release pipeline integration.
• Determine and implement Artifactory application feature and security architecture requirements.
• Solid understanding of Azure Provision/DevTest/Prod infrastructure as code using Azure CLI, PowerShell.
• Exhibits a deep understanding of MS Azure services and a broad knowledge within cloud infrastructure operations.
• Strong understanding and knowledge of Microsoft Azure services (Virtual Machines, Websites, Storage Blobs, SQL Database, Virtual Network, Traffic Manager, Automation, Active Directory, CDN, Cache), experience with DevOps and automation tools (Git, Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Nexus, Chef, Puppet).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required. Must be able to communicate effectively with core project team members.
• Experience in Agile-based development environment using DevOps.

Kovai.co is committed to building a workforce that reflects the richness of our society. We believe in fostering a culture of belonging and respect for all. Kovai.co stands firmly against discrimination, ensuring equal opportunity for everyone to build a successful career.