Senior Azure DevOps Engineer

Role Description:

Senior Azure DevOps Engineer with 8-10 years of experience.

To be responsible for Azure infrastructure migration, customer-hosted deployments, troubleshooting, and production support. The role will lead the transition of solutions from cloud-hosted environments to customer-managed Azure infrastructure while ensuring reliable deployments, security, monitoring, and operational support.

• Key Responsibilities: Lead Azure infrastructure migration and transition from cloud-hosted to customer-hosted environments.
• Plan and execute customer Azure deployments, infrastructure setup, and configuration.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, deployment, networking, and application issues.
• Manage Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines across environments.
• Support production deployments, upgrades, patches, and emergency fixes.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, performance optimization, and root-cause analysis.
• Support Docker/Kubernetes environments and infrastructure automation.
• Ensure security hardening, vulnerability remediation, backup/restore, and Disaster Recovery readiness.
• Provide on-call production support and coordinate resolution of critical incidents.
• Work directly with customer technical teams during migrations, deployments, and production issues.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across DevOps and Azure operations.

• Core Qualifications:
• 8-10 years of experience in DevOps, Cloud, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps.
• Proven experience with Azure infrastructure migration and customer-hosted environments.
• Strong experience with CI/CD, deployment automation, and production troubleshooting.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform/ARM, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of Azure networking, compute, storage, monitoring, and security.
• Experience supporting production environments and on-call operations.
• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, backup/restore, and security hardening.
• Strong scripting/automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Excellent customer-facing communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to take ownership of complex technical issues and drive them through resolution.
• Preferred:Experience working with enterprise customers and customer-managed infrastructure.
• Experience with multi-region/high-availability Azure environments.
• Azure certification or equivalent cloud certification.
• Experience with security/compliance frameworks such as SOC 2 or CIS.
• I think this is much closer to what the client is actually asking for than the first version. The phrases I'd particularly use for sourcing are Azure infrastructure migration + customer-hosted Azure + troubleshooting + production/on-call support.