Senior Azure Engineer

• Location:-Chennai

 

• Senior Azure Engineer
• Experience: 12+ years overall; 8+ years in Azure | IaaS, Network and PaaS Operations

 

• Role Purpose
• Lead the design, transition and steady-state operation of Microsoft Azure platforms across large-scale, multi-region production estates. The role combines Azure infrastructure and PaaS engineering, automation, identity support, governance, monitoring and service management.
• Role Family Cloud Engineering, Operations and Governance
• Experience 12+ years overall; 8+ years in Azure
• Coverage 24x7x365 enterprise cloud operations
• Context Multi-cloud managed services across AWS, Azure and GCP

 

• Key Responsibilities
• Lead Azure landing-zone design, subscription governance, onboarding and steady-state operations.
• Manage Azure VM lifecycle, Managed Disks, snapshots and storage lifecycle policies.
• Create, harden and version-control golden images; administer patching through Azure Update Manager.
• Operate VNets, subnets, peering, routing, Private Link and Private Endpoints; support ExpressRoute and VPN Gateway.
• Operate Azure SQL and Cosmos DB, including backup, patching, scaling and performance tuning.
• Operate AKS clusters, node pools and namespace or tenant governance.
• Support Azure Functions, App Service, API Management, Service Bus and Event Grid integrations.
• Support Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI endpoints, access, quotas and incident triage.
• Administer Azure DNS, Key Vault and Entra ID users, groups, roles, service principals and MFA.
• Lead Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, backup, restore and disaster-recovery activities.

 

• Required Technical Expertise
• Azure VM, Managed Disks, Blob, Files, Load Balancer, VNet, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, AKS and App Service.
• Azure landing zones, Management Groups, subscriptions and Azure Policy.
• Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, PowerShell DSC and Ansible.
• Operations, Governance and Service Management
• Manage Incident, Problem and Change activities for P0-P3 tickets through ServiceNow.
• Deliver services in line with SLAs and lead root-cause analysis.
• Maintain tagging, quota, policy and subscription governance.
• Maintain runbooks, dashboards and automation assets.

 

• Preferred Training and Certifications
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305).
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104).
• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).
• ITIL V3 or V4 Foundation.

 

• Success Profile
• Stable, secure and well-governed production services.
• Timely incident resolution, effective RCA and reduction of recurring issues.
• Repeatable automation, accurate documentation and clear operational reporting

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