Lead Azure Cloud Engineer – Terraform & CI/CD

Role Description

Job Title: Lead I – DevOps Engineering

Experience: 7–10 Years

Location: Pune

Work Mode: Onsite (5 Days a Week - UK Shift)

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly skilled DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud, Terraform, CI/CD Automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Monitoring, and Production Support.

The ideal candidate should have proven experience in designing and managing Azure cloud infrastructure, building reusable Terraform modules, implementing enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines, automating infrastructure deployments, and supporting production environments.

This role requires someone with deep technical expertise rather than basic exposure to Azure or CI/CD. Candidates should have experience working in large-scale cloud environments and be comfortable participating in production on-call support.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on Microsoft Azure.
• Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, including modules, remote state management, and infrastructure automation.
• Build, enhance, and maintain enterprise CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Harness.
• Automate application deployment, infrastructure provisioning, testing, and release processes.
• Deploy and manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (AKS preferred).
• Configure and support Azure networking components such as VNets, NSGs, Load Balancers, Application Gateway, Private Endpoints, and Key Vault.
• Implement monitoring, observability, and centralized logging using Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Develop automation scripts using Python and Bash.
• Troubleshoot production issues, perform root cause analysis, and participate in on-call production support.
• Collaborate with Development, QA, and Platform Engineering teams to implement DevOps best practices.
• Ensure platform security, reliability, scalability, and performance across cloud environments.

Mandatory Skills

Azure Cloud

• Strong hands-on experience designing and managing Azure infrastructure.
• Experience with Azure services such as:
• AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)
• Azure App Services
• Azure Container Registry (ACR)
• Virtual Networks (VNet)
• Network Security Groups (NSG)
• Load Balancer
• Application Gateway
• Azure Storage
• Azure Key Vault
• Managed Identity
• Private Endpoints

Infrastructure as Code

• Strong expertise in Terraform.
• Experience creating reusable Terraform modules.
• Hands-on experience with state management, variables, workspaces, and remote backend configuration.
• Experience provisioning Azure infrastructure entirely through Terraform.

CI/CD

Hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using one or more of:

• GitLab CI
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• Harness

Experience With

• Build automation
• Deployment automation
• Release pipelines
• Blue-Green or Canary deployments
• Git version control

Containers & Orchestration

• Docker
• Kubernetes (AKS preferred)

Monitoring & Observability

Experience With One Or More

• Splunk
• Dynatrace
• Prometheus
• Grafana

Automation & Scripting

• Python
• Bash

Operating Systems

• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.

Production Support

• Experience supporting production environments.
• On-call support and incident management.
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Performance troubleshooting.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Databricks.
• Azure DevOps experience.
• Cloud security and governance.
• Agile/Scrum environment.
• Azure Landing Zone implementation.
• Helm or GitOps exposure is an added advantage.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Microsoft Azure Certification (AZ-104, AZ-305, or equivalent).
• Terraform Associate Certification.

Candidate Profile

We are looking for candidates who have hands-on implementation experience in Azure Cloud, Terraform, and CI/CD, rather than candidates with only operational or basic exposure.

Skills

Microsoft Azure Cloud, DevOps, Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)