Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure

Innovature; Ernakulam; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Innovature in India seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, deploy, and manage Azure infrastructure using IaC and modern CI/CD pipelines. You will automate provisioning, monitor performance, secure configurations, and collaborate with development teams to ensure reliable cloud deployments from Kerala.

The role requires 2–5 years of DevOps experience with Azure services and hands-on IaC tooling. Join a hands-on team focused on scalable cloud solutions, incident response, and continuous

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of DevOps experience.
• Expertise in Azure services (AKS, Azure AD, Functions, SQL, CDN, Monitor).
• Hands-on IaC experience with Terraform, ARM, or Pulumi.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, AKS).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (PowerShell, Python, JavaScript).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD).
• Strong networking, security, and monitoring knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage Azure infrastructure using IaC tools like Terraform, ARM, or Pulumi.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.
• Automate provisioning, configuration management, and deployments with IaC tools.
• Monitor performance, reliability, and security using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.
• Manage and optimize AKS clusters for efficient container orchestration.
• Apply cloud security, IAM, VPC, and networking best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve system and network issues for high availability.
• Collaborate with development teams on infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Work with logging/monitoring tools like Azure Monitor, Application Insights, ELK.
• Implement disaster recovery and backup strategies for cloud infra.

Skills

Azure

AKS

Terraform

IaC

CI/CD

Docker

Python/PowerShell

Networking

Monitoring

Tools

Terraform

ARM

Pulumi

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

ArgoCD

Job description

Design, implement, and manage Azure infrastructure using Terraform, Azure Resource Manager , or similar IaC tools.

Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.

• Automate provisioning, configuration management, and deployments with Terraform, Ansible, or Chef/Puppet.
• Monitor system performance, reliability, and security using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.
• Manage and optimize Azure Kubernetes Service Clusters, ensuring efficient container orchestration.
• Implement best practices for cloud security, IAM policies, VPC configurations, and networking.
• Troubleshoot and resolve system and network issues to ensure high availability and performance.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Work with logging and monitoring tools like Azure monitor, Application insight data, and ELK Stack.
• Implement disaster recovery and backup strategies for cloud infrastructure.

Skill Set

• 2 - 5 years of experience in DevOps
• Expertise in Azure services like Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), Azure Functions, Azure SQL Database, Azure CDN, Azure Monitor, and more.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, ARM, or Pulumi.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and AKS.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, JavaScript, etc.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD.
• Strong understanding of networking, VPC, load balancing, firewalls, and DNS in cloud environments.
• Knowledge of logging, monitoring, and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Zabbix).
• Experience with security best practices, including IAM, OAuth, and compliance frameworks.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

Add-ons

• Knowledge of other cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Experience

2 - 5 years

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