Cloud Devops Engineer- Azure

Role & responsibility

Job Description

Cloud, DevOps & Information Security Lead

Experience

6 to 8 years of overall experience, including at least 4 years of recent hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure production environments.

Role Overview

We are looking for a hands-on Cloud, DevOps & Information Security Lead to manage cloud infrastructure, DevOps, production reliability, security operations, compliance readiness and customer-facing technical discussions.

The candidate should have strong Azure experience, working knowledge of AWS, and practical exposure to information security, audits and enterprise customer assessments.

This is a hands-on role and requires independent ownership, troubleshooting capability and strong coordination across Engineering, QA, Product, Operations and customer teams.

Cloud, DevOps and Production Operations

* Manage Azure infrastructure across development, pre-production and production environments.

* Work with Azure services such as AKS, App Service, Application Gateway, WAF, API Management, PostgreSQL, Storage, Key Vault, Container Registry, Redis and virtual machines.

* Manage Azure networking, private endpoints, NSGs, identity, RBAC and secure access.

* Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or equivalent tools.

* Work with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates or other Infrastructure as Code tools.

* Support cloud migration, environment recreation, backup, disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

* Monitor infrastructure and applications using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Sentinel or similar tools.

* Troubleshoot production incidents, conduct root-cause analysis and implement preventive actions.

* Improve availability, scalability, deployment reliability, security and cloud cost optimisation.

* Possess working knowledge of AWS services such as IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS or ECS, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, KMS and WAF.

Information Security, Compliance and Audit

* Implement and maintain cloud and application security controls.

* Manage access controls, secrets, encryption, vulnerability remediation and security monitoring.

* Support VAPT activities, risk assessments, security incidents and remediation tracking.

* Coordinate internal audits, external audits and customer security assessments.

* Support compliance with ISO 27001, HIPAA, DPDP and customer-specific security requirements.

* Maintain security policies, procedures, risk registers, evidence and audit documentation.

* Work with internal teams to collect, validate and maintain audit evidence.

* Coordinate with external auditors, consultants, VAPT vendors and SOC providers.

* Respond to customer information security questionnaires and vendor due diligence assessments.

* Represent the organisation in customer discussions related to cloud architecture, data security, logging, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery and access management.

Required Skills

* Strong hands-on Microsoft Azure experience.

* Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code.

* Experience with Azure networking, monitoring, security and identity services.

* Experience in production support, incident management and root-cause analysis.

* Understanding of cloud security, vulnerability management and DevSecOps practices.

* Experience handling audits, security questionnaires and customer technical discussions.

* Working knowledge of AWS cloud and security services.

* Strong documentation, communication and stakeholder-management skills.

* Ability to independently own activities and drive them to closure.

Preferred Experience

* Experience in healthcare, health-tech, pharmaceutical, fintech or another regulated industry.

* Exposure to HIPAA, DPDP, GDPR, SOC 2 or similar frameworks.

* Experience with Microsoft Sentinel or another SIEM platform.

* Experience working with external SOC, audit or security service providers.

* Exposure to application security and secure software development practices.

Key Behavioural Expectations

* Strong ownership and hands-on execution mindset.

* Ability to work in a growing organisation with evolving processes.

* Comfortable handling multiple priorities and critical production activities.

* Ability to communicate technical and security risks clearly.

* Willingness to work across engineering, customer, audit and vendor teams.

Reporting

The role will report to the Director of Engineering and work closely with Engineering, QA, Product, Operations, customers and external security partners.

Success Measures

* Improved reliability and security of cloud environments.

* Faster closure of incidents, vulnerabilities and audit observations.

* Better CI/CD automation, monitoring and production readiness.

* Improved customer security response quality and audit readiness.

* Reduced dependency on individual team members.

* Better cloud cost management and operational documentation.ponsibilities

Preferred candidate profile