Azure Engineer Cloud Infrastructure

Job Title: Senior Azure Engineer / Azure Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure

Position: 1

Experience: 6+ Years

Location: Bangalore / Chennai / Pune / Hyderabad, India

Working Model: Hybrid

Ideal Candidate

A hands-on Azure engineer with strong implementation and operational skills. Senior candidates should also be able to independently drive solution design, technical discussions, and engineering improvements.

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Azure Engineer to design, implement, maintain, and optimize enterprise Azure infrastructure and platform services. The ideal candidate will bring strong hands-on engineering and operational expertise, with the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues, implement secure and resilient cloud solutions, and contribute to infrastructure design and continuous improvement.

For senior-level roles, the candidate should also be capable of independently driving solution design discussions, evaluating architectural options, and recommending scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Azure infrastructure and platform services.
• Implement secure and scalable cloud architectures aligned with enterprise standards and operational requirements.
• Manage Azure networking, including virtual networks, subnets, NSGs, route tables, private endpoints, DNS, and connectivity.
• Provision and manage Azure compute, storage, backup, recovery, and other infrastructure services.
• Implement identity and access management using Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, managed identities, and least-privilege principles.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or PowerShell.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployments and environment promotion.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, backup, and disaster recovery practices to support platform availability and resilience.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, connectivity, performance, security, and deployment issues.
• Perform capacity planning, resource optimization, cost management, and operational health assessments.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security policies, governance requirements, tagging standards, and Azure Policy controls.
• Maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams, operational procedures, and troubleshooting runbooks.
• Collaborate with application, security, DevOps, and operations teams to deliver reliable cloud services.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Azure engineering, cloud infrastructure, or platform operations.
• Strong hands-on experience implementing and supporting Azure infrastructure services.
• Good knowledge of Azure networking, compute, storage, identity, security, and governance.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, or equivalent tools.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, backup, disaster recovery, and incident management.
• Understanding of high availability, resilience, security best practices, and enterprise cloud operations.
• Strong troubleshooting, automation, documentation, and problem-solving skills.

Additional Expectations for Senior Azure Engineers

• Independently lead technical design and solution discussions.
• Evaluate architectural alternatives and recommend secure, scalable, resilient, and cost-effective solutions.
• Drive technical implementation decisions and resolve complex infrastructure issues.
• Mentor engineers and promote automation, operational excellence, and engineering best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Azure landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, and governance frameworks.
• Familiarity with Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and compliance controls.
• Exposure to AKS, Azure API Management, or enterprise observability platforms.
• Relevant Microsoft Azure certifications are an advantage.

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