Sr Manager-Cloud & Infra Engg

Area(s) of responsibility

Job Description – Azure Cloud & Automation Specialist Position Title Azure Cloud & Automation Specialist

Job Summary ________________________________________ Key Responsibilities Azure Cloud Infrastructure Management

• Design, deploy, and manage Azure cloud infrastructure and platform services.
• Administer Azure subscriptions, resource groups, virtual networks, subnets, storage accounts, Azure SQL, Key Vault, Application Gateway, Azure API Management (APIM), App Services, and Function Apps.
• Implement secure networking solutions including NSGs, private endpoints, private DNS, firewalls, and WAF policies.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of Azure-hosted applications and services.
• Support production, test, development, and disaster recovery environments. Azure DevOps & Release Management
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Automate application and infrastructure deployments across environments.
• Manage source code repositories, branch strategies, pull requests, and release processes.
• Support infrastructure-as-code implementation and deployment through Terraform and Azure DevOps Pipelines.
• Participate in change management and release planning activities. Linux Administration & Support
• Administer Linux servers including RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and other enterprise distributions.
• Perform system provisioning, patching, upgrades, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Manage user access, permissions, storage, networking, and security configurations.
• Monitor system health and perform capacity planning.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security and operational standards. Automation & Scripting
• Develop automation solutions using Python, Ansible, PowerShell, Perl, PHP, and Shell scripting.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, system administration, configuration management, and operational tasks.
• Create reusable automation frameworks, scripts, and runbooks.
• Implement self-healing and event-driven automation solutions.
• Reduce manual effort through process automation and orchestration. Monitoring & Observability
• Implement and manage monitoring solutions using Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, and Grafana.
• Create dashboards, reports, alerts, and performance metrics.
• Monitor infrastructure, applications, databases, and services to ensure optimal performance.
• Identify, investigate, and resolve incidents and performance bottlenecks.
• Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) and problem management activities _______________________________________

Required Technical Skills Cloud Technologies

• Microsoft Azure
• Azure App Services
• Azure Function Apps
• Azure API Management (APIM)
• Azure Application Gateway & WAF
• Azure SQL Database
• Azure Key Vault
• Azure Monitor
• Log Analytics
• Application Insights
• Azure Networking DevOps & Automation
• Azure DevOps
• Terraform
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• GitHub Enterprise
• YAML Pipelines
• Configuration Management Linux Administration
• RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu
• Linux Security & Hardening
• System Performance Tuning
• Server Administration & Troubleshooting Scripting Languages
• Python
• Ansible
• PowerShell
• Perl
• PHP
• Bash/Shell Scripting Database Technologies
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Azure SQL
• Database Performance Tuning AI Technologies
• Microsoft Copilot
• Copilot Chatbot