Devops Lead (Preffered Male Candidates ) 3yrs Experience in Azure

Role & responsibilities

Leadership & Collaboration

• Lead, mentor, and review the work of junior DevOps resources.
• Define DevOps best practices, standards, and processes.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and security teams to streamline release cycles.
• Act as the primary point of contact for DevOps-related architecture and decisions.

Infrastructure & Cloud Management

• Design, build, and maintain highly available and scalable systems on Azure.
• Architect and manage Kubernetes (AKS) clusters, including upgrades and capacity planning.
• Implement and manage auto-scaling for Kubernetes nodes and workloads.
• Ensure system reliability, performance, and security.

CI/CD & Automation

• Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab, etc.).
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using IaC tools (Terraform, ARM, Bicep preferred).
• Standardize application deployment using Docker and Kubernetes. Monitoring, Logging & Alerting
• Implement and continuously improve monitoring and alerting systems. • Integrate tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, etc.
• Configure alerting and on-call workflows using OpsGenie, PagerDuty, or similar tools.
• Proactively identify and resolve performance and availability issues.

Preferred candidate profile

Mandatory Skills

• 69 years of experience in DevOps / Site Reliability Engineering / Systems Administration.

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure cloud services.

• Advanced knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. • Strong experience with Docker and container networking.

• 2+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience (AKS preferred).

• Strong Linux system administration experience.

• Experience with application deployment using CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience implementing monitoring and alerting solutions. Good to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes auto-scaling (HPA, Cluster Autoscaler).

• Experience with security best practices in cloud and container environments.

• Knowledge of GitOps practices and tools.

• Exposure to multi-environment deployments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod).